Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell DL4300 Appliance Owner's Manual
- About your Dell DL4300 Appliance
- Documentation matrix
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel (optional)
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Cooling shroud
- Hard-drive tray assembly
- Removing the hard drive tray
- Installing the hard drive tray
- Removing a hard drive blank from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a hard drive blank into a hard drive carrier
- Removing a hard drive carrier from the hard drive tray
- Installing a hard drive carrier into the hard drive tray
- Removing a hard drive from a hard drive carrier
- Removing the hard drive backplane from the hard drive tray
- Installing the hard drive backplane in the hard drive tray
- Cooling fans
- Cooling-fan assembly
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- PCIe card holder
- Cable retention bracket
- Integrated storage controller card
- Expansion cards and expansion card riser
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing an expansion card from expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Removing an expansion card from the expansion card riser 1
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 1
- Removing the riser 1 blank
- Installing the riser 1 blank
- Removing expansion card risers
- Installing expansion card risers
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- Network daughter card
- System battery
- Power supply units
- Hard drives
- Removing a hot swappable hard drive
- Installing a hot swappable hard drive
- Hard drive backplane
- Control panel
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Troubleshooting your system
- Safety first — for you and your system
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (USB XML configuration)
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (Laptop connection)
- Troubleshooting a serial I/O device
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a wet system
- Troubleshooting a damaged system
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting power supply units
- Troubleshooting cooling problems
- Troubleshooting cooling fans
- Troubleshooting system memory
- Troubleshooting an SD card
- Troubleshooting a hard drive
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- System messages
- Getting help
Steps
Press the release tabs and lift the backplane out of the hard drive tray.
Figure 25. Removing the 3.5 inch (x4) hard drive backplane
1. release tab (2) 2. hard drive indicators
3. hard drive connector (4) 4. guide pin
5. hard drive backplane
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Safety instructions
Before working inside your system
Installing the hard drive backplane in the hard drive tray
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only
perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as
directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that is
not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions
that are shipped with your product.
Steps
Align the hard drive backplane with the guide pin on the chassis and lower the hard drive backplane
on the chassis until it is firmly seated.
Next steps
1. Install the hard drives carriers into the hard drive tray.
2. Install the hard drive tray into the chassis.
3. Follow the procedure listed in the After working inside your system section.
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