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
PCIe Slot Processor Connection Height Length Link Width Slot Width
4 (Gen3) Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x8 x8
5 (Gen3) Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x8 x8
NOTE: The expansion-card slots are not hot-swappable.
The following table describes the installation order for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical t. The expansion
cards with the highest priority must be installed rst by using the slot priority indicated.
Table 35. Riser congurations: No riser - 1 CPU
Card Type Slot Priority Maximum Allowed
GPGPU (NVIDIA) 2 1
Card, Network(Broadcom/Intel) 1,2,4,5 4
NIC (Intel) 1,2,4,5 4
PERC9/ 9.14G (FXN) 4,5,2 3
RAID - PERC9+ (Internal) (Dell) 4,5,2 3
RAID - PERC10 (Internal) (Dell) 4,5,2 3
RAID - PERC10 (External)(Dell) 4,5,2 3
NIC(Broadcom) 4,5,2 3
Card, Network ((Broadcom/Intel/Emulex,
Qlogic)
4,5,2 3
BOSS M.2 (SATA) (Dell) 4,5,2 3
Table 36. Riser congurations: No riser - 2 CPU
Card Type Slot Priority Maximum Allowed
GPGPU (NVIDIA, AMD) 3 1
Card, Network (Broadcom, Intel) 1,2,4,5,3 5
NIC(Intel) 1,2,4,5,3 5
GPGPU (NVIDIA) 3,2 2
PERC9/ 9.14G (FXN) 4,5,3,2 4
RAID - PERC9+ (Internal) (Dell) 4,5,3,2 4
RAID - PERC10 (Internal) (Dell) 4,5,3,2 4
RAID - PERC10 (External)(Dell) 4,5,3,2 4
NIC(Broadcom) 4,5,3,2 4
Card, Network ((Broadcom/Intel) 4,5,3,2 4
Card,Controller (Emulex, Qlogic) 4,5,3,2 4
BOSS M.2 (SATA) (Dell) 4,5,3,2 4
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