Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd Installation and Service Manual
- PowerEdge R740xd system overview
- Documentation resources
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Backplane cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling fan assembly
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- NVDIMM-N battery
- Mid drive tray
- Mid drive tray details
- Removing mid drive tray
- Installing the mid drive tray
- Removing drive blank from drive carrier
- Installing drive blank into the drive carrier
- Removing drive carrier from the mid drive tray
- Installing drive carrier into mid drive tray
- Removing 3.5 inch drive from the drive carrier
- Installing 3.5 inch drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5 inch drive from the 3.5 inch mid drive carrier
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into the 3.5 inch mid drive carrier
- Drives
- Drive guidelines
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5 inch drive from the 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into the 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5 inch adapter from a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5 inch adapter into a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Rear drive cage
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Opening and closing the PCIe card holder latch
- Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing riser 2 and 3 blank
- Installing riser 2 and 3 blank
- Removing riser 3 blank
- Installing riser 3 blank
- Removing expansion card riser 1
- Installing expansion card riser 1
- Removing expansion card riser 2
- Installing expansion card riser 2
- Removing expansion card riser 3
- Installing expansion card riser 3
- GPU card installation guidelines
- Removing a GPU
- Installing a GPU
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Network daughter card
- Integrated storage controller card
- Backplane
- Backplane details
- Removing the backplane
- Installing the backplane
- Removing mid drive tray backplane
- Installing mid drive tray backplane
- Removing the 3.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Installing the 3.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Removing the 2.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Installing the 2.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Cable routing
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Power supply units
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- System diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
Table 8. iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes (continued)
iDRAC Direct LED
indicator code
Condition
Turns off
Indicates that the laptop or tablet is unplugged.
Back view of the system
Figure 8. Back view of 4 x 2.5 inch drive system
Table 9. Features available on the back view of 4 x 2.5 inch drive system
Item Panels, ports and slots Icon Description
1 Full-height PCIe
expansion card slot (3)
N/A The PCIe expansion card slot (riser 1) connects up to three full-
height PCIe expansion cards to the system. For more information,
see the Expansion card installation guidelines section.
2 Half-height PCIe
expansion card slot
N/A The PCIe expansion card slot (riser 2) connects one half-height
PCIe expansion cards to the system. For more information, see the
Expansion card installation guidelines section.
3 Rear handle N/A
The rear handle can be removed to enable any external cabling of
PCIe cards that are installed in the PCIe expansion card slot 6.
4 Drive slots N/A Enable you to install drives that are supportedon your system.
For more information about drives, see the www.dell.com/
poweredgemanuals section.
5 Power supply unit (2) N/A For more information, see the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals
section.
6 NIC ports TheNIC ports that are integrated on the network daughter
card (NDC) providenetwork connectivity. For more information
about the supported configurations,see the www.dell.com/
poweredgemanuals section.
7 USB port (2)
The USB ports are 9-pin and 3.0-compliant. These ports enable you
to connect USB devices to the system.
8 VGA port Enables you to connect a display deviceto the system. For more
information, see the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
9 Serial port Enables you to connect a serial deviceto the system. For more
information, see the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
10 iDRAC9 dedicated port Enables you to remotely access iDRAC. For more information, see
the iDRAC User’s Guide at www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
11 System identification
button
The System Identification (ID) button is available on the front and
back of the systems. Press the button to identify a system in a rack
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