Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Optional front bezel
- System feet
- Caster wheels – optional
- 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 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
- 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
- Power supply units
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan (middle fan) assembly
- Flex bays
- Optical drives and tape drives
- NVDIMM-N battery
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion card holder
- GPU card holder (optional)
- Expansion cards
- Optional GPU card
- NVLink bridge
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Backplane
- Backplane cabling
- Integrated storage controller card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Control panel assembly
- Trusted Platform Module
- System board
- Power interposer boards
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
Table 4. System health and system ID indicator codes
System health and system ID indicator code Condition
about the event and error messages generated by the system
firmware and agents that monitor system components, go to
qrl.dell.com > Look Up > Error Code, type the error code, and
then click Look it up..
Drive indicator codes
Each drive carrier has an activity LED indicator and a status LED indicator. The indicators provide information about the current
status of the drive. The activity LED indicator indicates whether the drive is currently in use or not. The status LED indicator
indicates the power condition of the drive.
Figure 8. Drive indicators
1. Drive activity LED indicator
2. Drive status LED indicator
3. Drive capacity label
NOTE: If the drive is in the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode, the status LED indicator does not turn on.
Table 5. Drive indicator codes
Drive status indicator code Condition
Flashes green twice per second Identifying drive or preparing for removal.
Off Drive ready for removal.
NOTE: The drive status indicator remains off until all drives are
initialized after the system is turned on. Drives are not ready
for removal during this time.
Flashes green, amber, and then turns off Predicted drive failure.
Flashes amber four times per second Drive failed.
Flashes green slowly Drive rebuilding.
Solid green Drive online.
Flashes green for three seconds, amber for three
seconds, and then turns off after six seconds
Rebuild stopped.
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