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
Recommended tools
You need the following tools to perform the removal and installation procedures:
● Key to the bezel lock. The key is required only if your system includes a bezel.
● Phillips 1 screwdriver
● Phillips 2 screwdriver
● Torx T30 screwdriver
● 5 mm hex nut screwdriver
● Plastic scribe
●
1/4-inch flat blade screwdriver
● Wrist grounding strap connected to the ground
● ESD mat
● Needle-nose pliers
Optional front bezel
NOTE: LCD panel is optional on the front bezel. If the front bezel has an LCD panel, see LCD panel section.
Removing the front bezel
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2. Keep the bezel key handy.
NOTE: The bezel key is part of the LCD bezel package.
Steps
1. Unlock the bezel.
2. Pull the top end of the bezel away from the system.
3. Unhook the bezel tabs from the slots at the bottom of the system, and lift the bezel away.
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Installing and removing system components