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
Steps
1. Locate the IDSDM connector on the system board.
NOTE: For information on the exact location of IDSDM on system board, see System board jumpers and connector
section.
2. Align IDSDM module with the connector on the system board.
3. Press the IDSDM module until firmly seated on the system board.
Figure 125. Installing the IDSDM module
Next steps
1. Install the MicroSD cards.
NOTE:
Reinstall the Micro-SD cards into the same slots based on the labels you had marked on the cards during
removal.
2. Install the air shroud.
3. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
MicroSD card
Removing the MicroSD card
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2. Follow the procedure that is listed in Before working inside your system.
3. Remove the IDSDM module.
Steps
1. Locate the MicroSD card slot on the IDSDM module, and press the card to partially release it from the slot. For more
information on the IDSDM module location, see System board jumpers and connectors section.
2. Hold the MicroSD card, and remove them from the IDSDM module.
NOTE: Temporarily label each MicroSD card with the corresponding slot number after removal.
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