Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 Installation and Service Manual
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system overview
- 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 feet
- Inside the system
- Caster wheels – optional
- System cover
- Air shroud
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Optical drives and tape drives
- Cabled drives
- Drive backplane
- System memory
- Cooling fans
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Expansion card holder
- Expansion cards
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Processors and heat sinks
- Power supply units
- Power interposer board
- System battery
- Control panel assembly
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- Updating the system BIOS
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Figure 60. Installing the expansion card holder
Next steps
1. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
2. Install the air shroud.
Expansion cards
Expansion card installation guidelines
The following table describes the supported expansion cards:
Table 17. Supported PCI express generation 3 expansion cards
PCIe Slot Processor Connection Height Length Link Width Slot Width
1 (Gen3) Platform Controller Hub Full Height Half Length x4 x4
2 (Gen3) Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x4 x4
3 (Gen3) Processor 2 Full Height Full Length x16 x16
4 (Gen3) Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x8 x8
5 (Gen3) Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x8 x8
NOTE: The expansion-card slots are not hot-swappable.
The following table describes the installation order for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical fit.
The expansion cards with the highest priority must be installed first by using the slot priority indicated.
Table 18. Expansion card configuration: 1 processor
Card Type Slot Priority Maximum Allowed
Card, Network(Broadcom/Intel) 1,2,4,5 4
NIC (Intel) 1,2,4,5 4
PERC9/ 9.14G (FXN) 4,5,2 3
RAID - PERC9+ (Internal) (Dell) 4,5,2 3
RAID - PERC10 (Internal) (Dell) 4,5,2 3
RAID - PERC10 (External)(Dell) 4,5,2 3
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