Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- PowerEdge R740xd system overview
- Documentation resources
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Backplane cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling fan assembly
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- NVDIMM-N battery
- Mid drive tray
- Mid drive tray details
- Removing mid drive tray
- Installing the mid drive tray
- Removing drive blank from drive carrier
- Installing drive blank into the drive carrier
- Removing drive carrier from the mid drive tray
- Installing drive carrier into mid drive tray
- Removing 3.5 inch drive from the drive carrier
- Installing 3.5 inch drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5 inch drive from the 3.5 inch mid drive carrier
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into the 3.5 inch mid drive carrier
- Drives
- Drive guidelines
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5 inch drive from the 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into the 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5 inch adapter from a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5 inch adapter into a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Rear drive cage
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Opening and closing the PCIe card holder latch
- Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing riser 2 and 3 blank
- Installing riser 2 and 3 blank
- Removing riser 3 blank
- Installing riser 3 blank
- Removing expansion card riser 1
- Installing expansion card riser 1
- Removing expansion card riser 2
- Installing expansion card riser 2
- Removing expansion card riser 3
- Installing expansion card riser 3
- GPU or ACLR card installation guidelines
- Removing a GPU
- Installing a GPU
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Network daughter card
- Integrated storage controller card
- Backplane
- Backplane details
- Removing the backplane
- Installing the backplane
- Removing mid drive tray backplane
- Installing mid drive tray backplane
- Removing the 3.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Installing the 3.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Removing the 2.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Installing the 2.5 inch drive rear backplane
- Cable routing
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Power supply units
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- System diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
5. Align the screws on the integrated storage controller card cable with the screw holes on the system board.
6. Using Phillips #2 screwdriver, tighten the screws to secure the integrated storage controller card cable to the system board.
Figure 123. Installing integrated storage controller card cable
Next steps
1. Install the expansion card riser 1.
2. Install the air shroud.
3. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
Backplane
Backplane details
Depending on your system configuration, the drive backplanes supported in PowerEdge R740xd are listed here:
Table 28. Supported backplane options for PowerEdge R740XD systems.
System Supported backplane options
PowerEdge R740xd
2.5 inch (x24) SAS/SATA/NVMe backplane or
2.5 inch (x24) SAS/SATA/NVMe backplane, 2.5 inch (x4) SAS/SATA backplane on the mid
drive tray and 2.5 inch (x4) SAS/SATA backplane (back) or
2.5 inch (x24) SAS/SATA/NVMe backplane which supports 20 SAS/SATA drives and 4
NVMe drives, or
3.5 inch (x12) SAS/SATA backplane, or
3.5 inch (x12) SAS/SATA backplane, 3.5 inch (x4) SAS/SATA backplane on the mid drive
tray and 3.5 inch (x2) SAS/SATA backplane (back), or
3.5 inch (x12) SAS/SATA backplane, 3.5 inch (x4) SAS/SATA backplane on the mid drive
tray and 2.5 inch (x4) SAS/SATA backplane (back) or
3.5 inch (x12) SAS/SATA backplane and 3.5 inch (x2) SAS/SATA backplane (back) or
3.5 inch (x12) SAS/SATA backplane and 2.5 inch (x4) SAS/SATA backplane (back) or
2.5 inch (x24) NVMe backplane
3.5 inch (x12) Hybrid backplane with NVMe U.2 SSD
134 Installing and removing system components