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
System memory guidelines...................................................................................................................................... 108
General memory module installation guidelines.................................................................................................. 109
Removing a memory module................................................................................................................................... 109
Installing a memory module...................................................................................................................................... 110
Optional BOSS S2 module...............................................................................................................................................111
Removing the BOSS S2 module.............................................................................................................................. 111
Installing the BOSS S2 module................................................................................................................................ 113
Removing the BOSS S2 card carrier......................................................................................................................114
Installing the BOSS S2 card carrier........................................................................................................................116
Optional internal USB card............................................................................................................................................. 117
Removing the internal USB module....................................................................................................................... 118
Installing the internal USB module..........................................................................................................................118
Internal USB memory key............................................................................................................................................... 119
Removing the internal USB memory key.............................................................................................................. 119
Installing the internal USB memory key ............................................................................................................... 119
Optional IDSDM module................................................................................................................................................. 120
Removing the IDSDM module................................................................................................................................. 120
Installing the IDSDM module................................................................................................................................... 120
MicroSD card.....................................................................................................................................................................121
Removing the MicroSD card....................................................................................................................................121
Installing the MicroSD card..................................................................................................................................... 122
Expansion cards............................................................................................................................................................... 123
Expansion card installation guidelines................................................................................................................... 123
Removing a expansion card.....................................................................................................................................128
Installing an expansion card.....................................................................................................................................129
GPU card holder............................................................................................................................................................... 131
Removing the GPU card holder.............................................................................................................................. 131
Installing the GPU card holder.................................................................................................................................131
Optional GPU card...........................................................................................................................................................132
Removing the GPU card...........................................................................................................................................132
Installing the GPU card.............................................................................................................................................134
GPU riser........................................................................................................................................................................... 135
Removing the GPU riser.......................................................................................................................................... 135
Installing the GPU riser.............................................................................................................................................136
Processor and heat sink module...................................................................................................................................137
Removing the processor and heat sink module.................................................................................................. 137
Removing the processor.......................................................................................................................................... 139
Installing the processor............................................................................................................................................. 141
Installing the processor and heat sink module.................................................................................................... 145
Optional OCP card...........................................................................................................................................................147
Removing the OCP card...........................................................................................................................................147
Installing the OCP card.............................................................................................................................................149
Optional serial COM port................................................................................................................................................151
Removing the serial COM port................................................................................................................................151
Installing the serial COM port................................................................................................................................. 152
System battery ................................................................................................................................................................153
Replacing the system battery................................................................................................................................. 153
Intrusion switch module................................................................................................................................................. 154
Removing the intrusion switch module................................................................................................................ 154
Installing the intrusion switch module...................................................................................................................155
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