Installation and Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R250 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- PowerEdge R250 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
- Optional optical drive
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- Drive backplane
- Drives
- Cable routing
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Optional IDSDM module
- MicroSD card
- Optional BOSS S1 card
- PERC
- System battery
- Optional internal USB card
- Power supply unit
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Removing the backplane
Prerequisites
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, remove the drives from the system before removing
the backplane.
CAUTION: Note the number of each drive and temporarily label them before you remove the drive so that you
can reinstall them in the same location.
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system.
3. Remove the air shroud.
4. Remove all the drives.
5. If installed, disconnect the optical drive signal and power cables from the system.
NOTE: Observe the routing of the cable as you remove it from the system.
6. Disconnect the drive backplane cables from the connectors on the system board.
Steps
1. Press the blue release tabs to disengage the drive backplane from the hooks on the system.
2. Lift the drive backplane out of the system.
NOTE: To avoid damaging the backplane, ensure that you move the control panel cables from the cable routing clips
before removing the backplane.
Figure 24. Removing the backplane
Next steps
Replace the drive backplane.
Installing the drive backplane
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
Installing and removing system components
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