Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- 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 or ACLR 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
Removing the air shroud.............................................................................................................................................41
Installing the air shroud...............................................................................................................................................41
Cooling fan assembly........................................................................................................................................................42
Removing the cooling fan assembly........................................................................................................................42
Installing the cooling fan assembly..........................................................................................................................43
Cooling fans........................................................................................................................................................................ 44
Cooling fan details....................................................................................................................................................... 44
Removing a cooling fan..............................................................................................................................................45
Installing a cooling fan................................................................................................................................................ 45
Intrusion switch................................................................................................................................................................. 46
Removing an intrusion switch.................................................................................................................................. 46
Installing an intrusion switch..................................................................................................................................... 47
NVDIMM-N battery.......................................................................................................................................................... 48
NVDIMM-N battery details....................................................................................................................................... 48
Removing the NVDIMM-N battery from the air shroud.................................................................................... 48
Installing NVDIMM-N battery into air shroud....................................................................................................... 49
Removing NVDIMM-N battery from mid drive tray............................................................................................50
Installing NVDIMM-N battery into mid drive tray................................................................................................ 51
Removing NVDIMM-N battery from the bracket................................................................................................ 52
Installing NVDIMM-N battery into the bracket....................................................................................................53
Mid drive tray..................................................................................................................................................................... 54
Mid drive tray details.................................................................................................................................................. 54
Removing mid drive tray............................................................................................................................................54
Installing the mid drive tray.......................................................................................................................................55
Removing drive blank from drive carrier................................................................................................................56
Installing drive blank into the drive carrier............................................................................................................ 57
Removing drive carrier from the mid drive tray...................................................................................................58
Installing drive carrier into mid drive tray.............................................................................................................. 59
Removing 3.5 inch drive from the drive carrier................................................................................................... 60
Installing 3.5 inch drive into the drive carrier........................................................................................................ 61
Removing a 2.5 inch drive from the 3.5 inch mid drive carrier........................................................................ 62
Installing a 2.5 inch drive into the 3.5 inch mid drive carrier............................................................................63
Drives................................................................................................................................................................................... 64
Drive guidelines............................................................................................................................................................ 64
Removing a drive blank.............................................................................................................................................. 64
Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................ 65
Removing a drive carrier............................................................................................................................................66
Installing a drive carrier..............................................................................................................................................66
Removing a 2.5 inch drive from the 3.5 inch drive adapter..............................................................................67
Installing a 2.5 inch drive into the 3.5 inch drive adapter................................................................................. 68
Removing a 3.5 inch adapter from a 3.5 inch drive carrier...............................................................................69
Installing a 3.5 inch adapter into a 3.5 inch drive carrier...................................................................................70
Removing the drive from the drive carrier.............................................................................................................71
Installing a drive into the drive carrier.................................................................................................................... 72
Rear drive cage.................................................................................................................................................................. 73
Rear drive cage details............................................................................................................................................... 73
Removing rear drive cage..........................................................................................................................................73
Installing rear drive cage............................................................................................................................................75
System memory................................................................................................................................................................. 76
System memory guidelines........................................................................................................................................ 76
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