Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R920 System Owner's Manual
- About Your System
- Using The System Setup and Boot Manager
- Installing System Components
- Recommended Tools
- Front Bezel (Optional)
- Opening And Closing The System
- Inside The System
- Cable Management Tray
- System Memory
- General Memory Module Installation Guidelines
- Mode-Specific Guidelines
- Advanced ECC (Lockstep)
- Memory Optimized (Independent Channel) Mode
- Memory Sparing
- Memory Mirroring
- Fault Resilient Memory
- Sample Memory Configurations
- Removing A Memory-Riser Blank
- Installing A Memory-Riser Blank
- Removing A Memory Riser
- Installing A Memory Riser
- Removing Memory Modules From The Memory Riser
- Installing Memory Modules
- Memory Riser And Fan Cage
- Hard Drives
- Optical Drive (Optional)
- Cooling Fans
- Internal USB Memory Key (Optional)
- Expansion Cards And Expansion-Card Risers
- Expansion Card Installation Guidelines
- Removing The Left Expansion Card Riser Blank
- Installing The Left Expansion Card Riser Blank
- Removing The Right Expansion Card Riser Blank
- Removing An Expansion Card From Expansion-Card Risers 2 and 3
- Installing An Expansion Card Into The Expansion-Card Riser 2 and 3
- NDC Riser (I/O Riser 1)
- Network Daughter Card
- SD vFlash Card
- Internal Dual SD Module
- Internal SD Card
- Integrated Storage Controller Card
- RAID Battery
- Processors
- Power Supplies
- Hot Spare Feature
- Removing An AC Power Supply
- Installing An AC Power Supply
- Wiring Instructions For A DC Power Supply
- Assembling And Connecting The Safety Ground Wire
- Assembling The DC Input Power Wires
- Removing A DC Power Supply
- Installing A DC Power Supply
- Removing The Power Supply Blank
- Installing The Power Supply Blank
- Power Distribution Board
- System Battery
- Hard-Drive Backplane
- SAS Expander Daughter Card
- Control Panel Board
- System Board
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Safety First—For You And Your System
- Troubleshooting System Startup Failure
- Troubleshooting External Connections
- Troubleshooting The Video Subsystem
- Troubleshooting A USB Device
- Troubleshooting A Serial I/O Device
- Troubleshooting A Wet System
- Troubleshooting A Damaged System
- Troubleshooting The System Battery
- Troubleshooting Power Supplies
- Troubleshooting Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting Cooling Fans
- Troubleshooting System Memory
- Troubleshooting An Internal USB Key
- Troubleshooting An SD Card
- Troubleshooting An Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting A Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting A Storage Controller
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting Processors
- Using System Diagnostics
- Jumpers And Connectors
- Technical Specifications
- System Messages
- Getting Help

8. Disengage the fan tray from the connector on the system board.
9. Lift and remove the fan tray out of the system chassis.
Figure 27. Removing and Installing the Fan Tray
1. fan tray connector 2. fan tray
Installing The Fan tray
1. Align the fan tray with the connector and the screw holes on the system board.
2. Lower the fan tray and ensure that the fan tray connector engages with the connector on the system board.
3. Using a #2 Phillips screwdriver, tighten the fan tray screws (2 screws on the left and 1 screw on the right side) to
the system board.
4. Install the memory riser and fan cage.
5. Install the cooling fans.
6. Install the memory risers.
7. Close the system.
8. Reconnect the system to its electrical outlet and turn the system on, including any attached peripherals.
Internal USB Memory Key (Optional)
An optional USB memory key installed on your system can be used as a boot device, security key, or mass storage
device. The USB connector must be enabled by the Internal USB Port option in the Integrated Devices screen of the
System Setup.
To boot from the USB memory key, configure the USB memory key with a boot image and then specify the USB memory
key in the boot sequence in the System Setup.
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