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
n. Power supply units
2. Reconnect all cables to the system board.
NOTE: Ensure that the cables inside the system are routed along the chassis wall and secured using the cable securing
bracket.
3. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
4. Ensure that you:
a. Use the Easy Restore feature to restore the Service Tag. For more information, see Restoring the Service Tag using Easy
Restore.
b. If the Service Tag is not backed up in the backup flash device, enter the Service Tag manually. For more information, see
Entering the system Service Tag by using System Setup.
c. Update the BIOS and iDRAC versions.
d. Re-enable the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). For more information, see Upgrading the Trusted Platform Module.
5. Import your new or existing iDRAC Enterprise license. For more information, see Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
User's Guide, at www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
Restoring the Service Tag using Easy Restore
The easy restore feature allows you to restore your service tag, license, UEFI configuration, and the system configuration data
after replacing the system board. All data is backed up in a backup flash device automatically. If BIOS detects a new system
board, and the service tag in the backup flash device, BIOS prompts the user to restore the backup information.
About this task
Below is a list of options available:
● Restore the service tag, license, and diagnostics information, press Y
● Navigate to the Lifecycle Controller based restore options, press N.
● Restore data from a previously created Hardware Server Profile, press F10
NOTE: When the restore process is complete, BIOS prompts to restore the system configuration data.
● To restore the system configuration data, press Y
● To use the default configuration settings, press N
NOTE: After the restore process is complete, system reboots.
Manually update the Service Tag
After replacing a system board, if Easy Restore fails, follow this process to manually enter the Service Tag, using System
Setup.
About this task
If you know the system service tag, use the System Setup menu to enter the service tag.
Steps
1. Turn on the system.
2. To enter the System Setup, press F2.
3. Click Service Tag Settings.
4. Enter the service tag.
NOTE:
You can enter the service tag only when the Service Tag field is empty. Ensure that you enter the correct
service tag. Once the service tag is entered, it cannot be updated or changed.
5. Click OK.
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