Installation and Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T440
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 overview
- Documentation resources
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Optional front bezel
- System feet
- Caster wheels – optional
- System cover
- Air shroud
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5 inch drive from a 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into a 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5 inch drive adapter from a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5 inch drive adapter into the 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Optical drives and tape drives
- Cabled drives
- Drive backplane
- System memory
- Cooling fans
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Expansion card holder
- Expansion cards
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash card
- Processors and heat sinks
- Power supply units
- Power interposer board
- System battery
- Control panel assembly
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- Updating BIOS
- Restoring the Service Tag using Easy Restore
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
Next steps
1 Install the memory module.
2 If you are removing the memory module permanently, install a memory module blank. The procedure to install a memory module blank
is similar to that of the memory module.
Related link
Removing the air shroud
Installing a memory module
Installing a memory module
Prerequisite
Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
CAUTION: To ensure proper system cooling, memory module blanks must be installed in any memory socket that is not occupied.
Remove memory module blanks only if you intend to install memory modules in those sockets.
Steps
1 Locate the appropriate memory module socket.
CAUTION: Handle each memory module only by the card edges, ensuring not to touch the middle of the memory
module or metallic contacts.
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the memory module or the memory module socket during installation, do not bend or
ex the memory module. You must insert both ends of the memory module simultaneously.
2 Open the ejectors on the memory module socket outward to allow the memory module to be inserted into the socket.
3 Align the edge connector of the memory module with the alignment key of the memory module socket, and insert the memory module
in the socket.
CAUTION
: Do not apply pressure at the center of the memory module; apply pressure at both ends of the memory
module evenly.
NOTE: The memory module socket has an alignment key that enables you to install the memory module in the socket in
only one orientation.
4 Press the memory module with your thumbs until the socket levers rmly click into place.
Figure 51. Installing a memory module
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