Installation and Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R450 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R450 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
- Optional serial COM port
- Optional BOSS S1 card
- 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. Align and insert the intrusion switch module until it is firmly seated in the slot on the system.
2. Using the Phillips #1 screwdriver, tighten the screw securing the intrusion switch module.
3. Connect the intrusion switch cable to the connector on the system board.
NOTE: Route the cable properly when you replace it to prevent the cable from being pinched or crimped.
Figure 26. Installing the intrusion switch
Next steps
1. Install the air shroud.
2. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
Drives
Removing a drive blank
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
2. If installed, remove the front bezel.
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, drive blanks must be installed in all empty drive slots.
Steps
Press the release button, and slide the drive blank out of the drive slot.
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