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
Figure 167. Removing left control panel
Next steps
Install the left control panel.
Installing the left control panel
Prerequisites
Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
Steps
1. Route the control panel cable through the side wall of the system.
2. Align the left control panel assembly with the control panel slot on the system and place the assembly in the slot on the
system.
3. Connect the control panel cable to the system board connector and secure it using cable latch.
4. Using a Phillips #1 screwdriver, install the screws that secure the control panel and cable tube to the system.
Installing and removing system components
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