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
Removing a power supply unit blank
Prerequisites
Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
Steps
Pull the blank out of the system.
CAUTION: To ensure proper system cooling, the PSU blank must be installed in the second PSU bay in a
non-redundant configuration. Remove the PSU blank only if you are installing a second PSU.
Figure 163. Removing a 60 mm power supply unit blank
Figure 164. Removing a 86 mm power supply unit blank
Next steps
Replace the PSU blank or install the PSU.
Installing a power supply unit blank
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
NOTE: Install the power supply unit (PSU) blank only in the second PSU bay.
2. If required, remove the PSU.
Steps
Align the PSU blank with the PSU bay and push it into the PSU bay until it clicks into place.
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