Quick Start Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R650xs system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Minimum to POST and system management configuration validation
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Drive backplane cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch module
- Drives
- Optional optical drive
- Drive backplane
- Cable routing
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink module
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Drive cage
- Optional serial COM port
- MicroSD card
- Optional BOSS S1 card
- Optional IDSDM module
- Optional OCP card
- Front mounting front PERC module
- System battery
- Optional internal USB card
- VGA module
- Power supply unit
- Power interposer board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Steps
1. Remove the screws, lift the PCIe blank, and then open the latch on the expansion card riser. (Riser 1, Riser 2c).
Figure 97. Removing the PCIe blank
2. Slide and lock the serial COM port into the expansion card riser.
3. Connect the serial COM port cable to the serial port.
Figure 98. Installing the Serial COM port
Next steps
1. Install the expansion card riser.
2. Install the air shroud.
3. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system on page 26.
Installing and removing system components
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