Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 Installation and Service Manual
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing enclosure components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled
- PERC battery
- Air shroud
- System memory
- Support bracket
- Linking board and PCIe cable
- Processor and heat sink module
- Removing a processor and heat sink module
- Installing a processor and heat sink module
- Removing the fabric processor from the processor heat sink module
- Installing the fabric processor into the processor heat sink module
- Removing the non-fabric processor from the processor and heat sink module
- Installing the non-fabric processor into a processor and heat sink module
- Removing the fabric and sideband cables
- Installing the fabric and sideband cables
- Expansion cards
- PCIe slot priority
- Removing the expansion card riser assembly
- Installing the expansion card riser assembly
- Removing an expansion card
- Installing an expansion card
- Removing the riser card
- Installing the riser card
- Removing the M.2 SATA x16 riser
- Installing the M.2 SATA x16 riser
- Removing the M.2 SATA card
- Installing the M.2 SATA card
- M.2 SSD module
- Mezzanine and OCP cards
- System battery
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- System diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Figure 44. Installing the fabric and sideband cables
Next steps
1. Install the air shroud.
2. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
Expansion cards
NOTE:
A missing or an unsupported expansion card riser logs an System Event Log (SEL) event. This does not prevent
your system from powering on and no BIOS, POST messages or F1 or F2 pause is displayed.
PCIe slot priority
Table 11. Supported expansion options
Riser
Slot
number
Form
Factor
Controlling
processor
Slot's Electrical Bandwidth/
Physical Connector
Power
LP PCIE Slot
(Slot 4)
1 Low profile
Processor 1
SKL/SKL-F/CLX
PCIe Gen3 x16
(x16 connector)
75 W
Storage Slot
(DCS Mezz Slot)
(Slot 1)
1 Mezzanine
Processor 1
SKL/SKL-F/CLX
PCIe Gen3 x8
(Through Bridge Board)
25 W
OCP Mezz Slot
(Slot 3)
1 Mezzanine
Processor 1
SKL/CLX
PCIe Gen3 x16 25 W
OCP Mezz Slot
(Slot 3)
1 Mezzanine
Processor 1
SKL-F
OCP MEZZ
occupied by SKL-F QSFP carrier card
25 W
NOTE: For the expansion bus specification see the PowerEdge C6420 Technical Specs at
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