Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- System overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Cable routing
- RIO card
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Drive backplane cover
- Control panel
- Air shroud
- Cooling fan
- Side wall brackets
- Drives
- Drive backplane
- Rear drive cage
- Front PERC module
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing the expansion card risers
- Installing the expansion card risers
- Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing the full length expansion card risers
- Installing the full length expansion card risers
- Removing a GPU
- Installing a GPU
- Optional serial COM port
- Optional IDSDM module
- MicroSD card
- M.2 SSD module
- BOSS S2 card (optional)
- System battery
- Optional internal USB card
- Intrusion switch module
- Optional OCP card
- Power supply unit
- Trusted Platform Module
- System board
- LOM card and rear I/O board
- Upgrade Kits
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Table 6. Rear view of the system with 2 x 2.5-inch rear drive module (continued)
Item Ports, panels, or slots Icon Description
5
Rear drive module N/A Enables you to install drives that are supported on your system. For
more information about drives, see the Drives section.
6
USB 2.0 port (1) This port is USB 2.0-compliant.
7 PCIe expansion card riser
4 (slot 7 and slot 8)
N/A The expansion card riser enables you to connect PCI Express
expansion cards. For more information on the expansion
cards that are supported on your system, see www.dell.com/
poweredgemanuals section.
8 Power supply unit (PSU
2)
For more information about the PSU configurations, see the
www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
9
VGA port Enables you to connect a display device to the system. For more
information, see the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
10 USB 3.0 port (1) This port is USB 3.0-compliant.
11 iDRAC dedicated port Enables you to remotely access iDRAC. For more information, see
the iDRAC User's Guide at www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals
12 System identification
button
Press the system ID button:
● To locate a particular system within a rack.
● To turn the system ID on or off.
To reset iDRAC, press and hold the button for more than 16
seconds.
NOTE:
● To reset iDRAC using system ID, ensure that the system ID
button is enabled in the iDRAC setup.
● If the system stops responding during POST, press and hold
the system ID button (for more than 5 seconds) to enter
the BIOS progress mode.
13
OCP NIC port (optional) N/A This port supports OCP 3.0. The NIC ports are integrated on the
OCP card which is connected to the system board.
14 NIC port (1,2) The NIC ports are embedded on the LOM card that is connected to
the system board.
15 Power supply unit (PSU 1) For more information about the PSU configurations, see the
www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
For more information about the ports, see the www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals section.
For more information, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Technical Specifications on the product documentation page.
System overview
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