Installation and Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T550 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- PowerEdge T550 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 feet
- Optional caster wheels
- System cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan cage
- Fan board tray
- Front PERC module
- 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 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
- 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
- Drive backplane
- Drive bays
- Cable routing
- Optional optical drive
- Optional tape backup unit
- Front IO module
- System memory
- Optional BOSS S2 module
- Optional internal USB card
- Internal USB memory key
- Optional IDSDM module
- MicroSD card
- Expansion cards
- GPU card holder
- Optional GPU card
- GPU riser
- Processor and heat sink module
- Optional OCP card
- Optional serial COM port
- System battery
- Intrusion switch module
- Power supply unit
- Power interposer board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
NOTE: Route the cables properly to prevent them from being pinched or crimped.
2. Install the front bezel.
3. Install the air shroud.
4. Follow the procedure that is listed in After working inside your system.
System memory
System memory guidelines
The PowerEdge T550 system supports DDR4 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs). System memory holds the instructions that are
executed by the processor.
Your system contains 16 memory sockets organized into 8 channels per processor.
Memory channels are organized as follows:
Table 36. Memory channels
Processor Channel A Channel B Channel C Channel D Channel E Channel F Channel G Channel H
Processor 1 A1 A5 A3 A7 A2 A6 A4 A8
Processor 2 B1 B5 B3 B7 B2 B6 B4 B8
Figure 105. Memory channels
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Installing and removing system components