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. PCIe cable A of PCIe card 1 (BP: BP PCIE A2 to RAID
controller)
6. PCIe cable B of PCIe card 1 (BP: BP PCIE B2 to RAID
controller)
7. SAS cable (BP to adapter PERC) 8. system board
9. PCIe card 1 on riser 3A (slot 8) 10. adapter PERC on riser 2A (slot 6)
11. PCIe card 2 on riser 2A (slot 4) 12. PCIe card 3 on riser 1D (slot 1)
13. PCIe cable A of PCIe card 3 (BP: BP PCIE B0 to RAID
controller )
14. PCIe cable B of PCIe card 3 (BP: BP PCIE A0 to RAID
controller )
15. PCIe cable A of PCIe card 2 (BP: BP PCIE B1 to RAID
controller)
16. PCIe cable B of PCIe card 2 (BP: BP PCIE A1 to RAID
controller)
17. backplane expander
Figure 145. Cable routing – 24 x 2.5 inch NVMe drive backplane
1.
backplane 2. backplane signal cable A (BP: J_BP_SIG to MB)
3. backplane power cable A (BP: J_PWR_A to MB) 4. PCIe cable A (BP: PE2_A to RAID controller)
5. PCIe cable B (BP: PE2_B to RAID controller) 6. backplane signal cable B
7. PCIe card on riser 2 (slot 4) 8. PCIe card on riser 1 (slot 3)
9. PCIe cable A (BP: PE1_A to RAID controller) 10. PCIe cable B ( BP: PE1_B to RAID controller)
11. backplane power cable B (BP: J_PWR_B to MB) 12. backplane expander
148 Installing and removing system components