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
Cooling fans........................................................................................................................................................................ 46
Removing a cooling fan..............................................................................................................................................46
Installing a cooling fan................................................................................................................................................ 47
Cooling fan cage................................................................................................................................................................48
Removing the cooling fan cage................................................................................................................................48
Installing the cooling fan cage.................................................................................................................................. 49
Fan board tray....................................................................................................................................................................50
Fan board view.............................................................................................................................................................50
Removing the fan board tray.................................................................................................................................... 51
Installing the fan board tray.......................................................................................................................................51
Front PERC module.......................................................................................................................................................... 52
Removing the front PERC module.......................................................................................................................... 52
Installing the front PERC module............................................................................................................................ 53
Drives................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Removing a drive blank..............................................................................................................................................55
Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................ 55
Removing a drive carrier............................................................................................................................................56
Installing a drive carrier.............................................................................................................................................. 57
Removing the drive from the drive carrier............................................................................................................58
Installing a drive into the drive carrier....................................................................................................................59
Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier................................................................... 60
Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier.................................................................... 61
Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter.................................................................................62
Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter.................................................................................... 63
Drive backplane..................................................................................................................................................................64
Drive backplane............................................................................................................................................................64
Removing the 3.5-inch drive backplane ............................................................................................................... 65
Installing the 3.5-inch drive backplane...................................................................................................................66
Removing the 2.5-inch drive backplane ................................................................................................................67
Installing the 2.5-inch drive backplane...................................................................................................................68
Drive bays............................................................................................................................................................................69
Removing the drive bay cage blank........................................................................................................................ 69
Installing the drive bay cage blank........................................................................................................................... 71
Removing a drive bay................................................................................................................................................. 72
Installing a drive bay....................................................................................................................................................74
Cable routing...................................................................................................................................................................... 76
Optional optical drive....................................................................................................................................................... 98
Removing the optical drive blank............................................................................................................................ 98
Installing the optical drive blank...............................................................................................................................98
Removing the optical drive....................................................................................................................................... 99
Installing the optical drive........................................................................................................................................100
Optional tape backup unit.............................................................................................................................................. 101
Removing the tape backup unit blank................................................................................................................... 101
Installing the tape backup unit blank.....................................................................................................................102
Removing the tape backup unit............................................................................................................................. 103
Installing the tape backup unit................................................................................................................................104
Front IO module............................................................................................................................................................... 105
Removing the front IO module............................................................................................................................... 105
Installing the front IO module................................................................................................................................. 106
System memory............................................................................................................................................................... 108
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