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
Figure 47. Installing a middle cooling fan
Next steps
1. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system on page 28.
Removing the right external fan
Prerequisites
NOTE:
Opening or removing the system cover when the system is on may expose you to a risk of electric shock. Exercise
utmost care while removing or installing cooling fans.
NOTE: The procedure to remove the left external fan is similar to removing the right rear fan.
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions on page 27.
2. Remove the GPU air shrouds.
3. Remove the air shroud.
Steps
1. Disconnect the fan cable from the system board.
2. Using the Phillips #2 screwdriver, loosen the captive screws that secure the fan to the system.
3. Lift the fan away, while guiding the fan cable through the cable vent.
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Installing and removing system components