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
Table 20. Supported NVDIMM-N for dual processor configurations
Configuration Description Memory population rules
RDIMMs NVDIMM-N
Configuration 1 12x 16 GB RDIMMs, 1x
NVDIMM-N
Processor1 {A1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
Processor2 {B1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
Processor1 {A7}
Configuration 2 12x 32 GB RDIMMs, 1x
NVDIMM-N
Same for all 12x
RDIMM configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7}
Configuration 3 23x 32 GB RDIMMs, 1x
NVDIMM-N
Processor1 {A1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12}
Processor2 {B1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11}
Processor2 {B12}
Configuration 4 12x 16 GB RDIMMs, 2x
NVDIMM-Ns
Same for all 12x
RDIMM configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7}
Processor2 {B7}
Configuration 5 12x 32 GB RDIMMs, 2x
NVDIMM-Ns
Same for all 12x RDIMM
configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7}
Processor2 {B7}
Configuration 6 22x 32 GB RDIMMs, 2x
NVDIMM-Ns
Processor1 {A1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11}
Processor2 {B1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11}
Processor1 {A12}
Processor2 {B12}
Configuration 7 12x 16 GB RDIMMs, 4x
NVDIMM-Ns
Same for all 12x
RDIMM configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7, A8}
Processor2 {B7, B8}
Configuration 8 22x 32 GB RDIMMs, 4x
NVDIMM-Ns
Same for all 12x
RDIMM configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7, A8}
Processor2 {B7, B8}
Configuration 9 20x 32 GB RDIMMs, 4x
NVDIMM-Ns
Processor1 {A1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10}
Processor2 {B1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10}
Processor1 {A11, 12}
Processor2 {B11, 12}
Configuration 10 12x 16 GB RDIMMs, 6x
NVDIMM-Ns
Same for all 12x
RDIMM configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7, 8, 9}
Processor2 {B7, 8, 9}
Configuration 11 12x 32 GB RDIMMs, 6x
NVDIMM-Ns
Same for all 12x
RDIMM configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7, 8, 9}
Processor2 {B7, 8, 9}
Configuration 12 18x 32 GB RDIMMs, 6x
NVDIMM-Ns
Processor1 {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9}
Processor2 {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9}
Processor1 {A10, 11, 12}
Processor2 {B10, 11, 12}
Configuration 13 12x 16 GB RDIMMs, 12x
NVDIMM-Ns
Same for all 12x
RDIMM configurations. See
Configuration 1.
Processor1 {A7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12}
Processor2 {B7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12}
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