Installation and Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R250 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- PowerEdge R250 system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Minimum to POST and system management configuration validation
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Optional optical drive
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- Drive backplane
- Drives
- Cable routing
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Optional IDSDM module
- MicroSD card
- Optional BOSS S1 card
- PERC
- System battery
- Optional internal USB card
- Power supply unit
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Steps
Press the release button, and slide the drive blank out of the drive slot.
Figure 26. Removing a drive blank
Next steps
Installing a drive or replace the drive blank.
Installing a drive blank
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
2. If installed, remove the front bezel.
Steps
Insert the drive blank into the drive slot until the release button clicks into place.
Figure 27. Installing a drive blank
Next steps
If removed, install the front bezel.
Removing a cabled drive
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system.
CAUTION: Mixing drives from previous generations of PowerEdge servers is not supported.
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