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
Table 43. Configuration type C2 (continued)
Card Type Slot priority Maximum number of cards
Foxconn external adapter
H840
1, 2, 4, 6, 3 5
Foxconn external adapter
HBA355e
1, 2, 4, 6, 3 5
aPERC HBA11 HBA355i 6 1
Removing a expansion 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 air shroud.
Steps
1. Disconnect the cables from the expansion card.
2. Press the expansion card latch and push down the latch to open it.
3. Hold the expansion card by the edge, and pull the card up to remove it from the expansion card connector and the system.
Figure 128. Removing an expansion card
4. Install the filler brackets by performing the following steps:
a. Align the slot on the filler bracket with the tab on the expansion card slot.
b. Press the expansion card latch till the filler bracket locks into place.
NOTE:
Filler brackets must be installed in empty expansion-card slots to maintain FCC certification of the system. The
brackets also keep dust and dirt out of the system and aid in proper cooling and airflow inside the system.
128 Installing and removing system components