Owners Manual

Processors.......................................................................................................................................................................... 80
Removing a heat sink................................................................................................................................................. 80
Removing a processor.................................................................................................................................................81
Installing a processor.................................................................................................................................................. 84
Installing a heat sink....................................................................................................................................................85
Hard drives or SSDs..........................................................................................................................................................87
Hard drive or SSD bay numbering........................................................................................................................... 87
Hard drive or SSD installation guidelines............................................................................................................... 87
Removing a hard drive or SSD................................................................................................................................. 87
Installing a hard drive or SSD................................................................................................................................... 89
Removing a hard drive or SSD blank...................................................................................................................... 90
Installing a hard drive or SSD blank......................................................................................................................... 91
Shutdown procedure for servicing a hard drive or SSD.................................................................................... 92
Configuring the boot drive........................................................................................................................................93
Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD from a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD carrier................................... 93
Installing a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD in a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD carrier........................................... 94
Removing a 1.8-inch SSD from a 1.8-inch SSD carrier ......................................................................................94
Installing a 1.8-inch SSD in a 1.8-inch SSD carrier...............................................................................................95
Removing the hard drive or SSD cage...................................................................................................................96
Installing the hard drive or SSD cage..................................................................................................................... 97
Hard drive backplane........................................................................................................................................................98
Removing the hard drive or SSD backplane......................................................................................................... 98
Installing the hard drive or SSD backplane..........................................................................................................100
PERC H730P slim card....................................................................................................................................................101
Removing a PERC H730P slim card.......................................................................................................................101
Installing a PERC H730P slim card........................................................................................................................ 103
Storage controller card.................................................................................................................................................. 104
Removing the PCIe extender or storage controller card................................................................................. 104
Installing the PCIe extender or storage controller card................................................................................... 105
NVRAM backup battery................................................................................................................................................. 107
Replacing the NVRAM backup battery.................................................................................................................107
System board....................................................................................................................................................................109
Removing the system board................................................................................................................................... 109
Installing the system board.......................................................................................................................................112
Trusted Platform Module............................................................................................................................................... 115
Installing the Trusted Platform Module.................................................................................................................115
Initializing the TPM for BitLocker users................................................................................................................116
Initializing the TPM for TXT users..........................................................................................................................116
Chapter 7: Using system diagnostics.......................................................................................... 117
Dell Embedded System Diagnostics............................................................................................................................. 117
Running the Embedded System Diagnostics........................................................................................................117
Running embedded system diagnostics from an external media.................................................................... 117
System diagnostics controls.................................................................................................................................... 118
Chapter 8: Jumpers and connectors .......................................................................................... 119
System board jumper settings.......................................................................................................................................119
System board connectors..............................................................................................................................................120
Disabling a forgotten password.................................................................................................................................... 121
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