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- 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
- M.2 BOSS card
- 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........................................................................................................................................................................ 44
Removing a cooling fan.............................................................................................................................................. 44
Installing a cooling fan................................................................................................................................................ 45
Cooling fan cage................................................................................................................................................................46
Removing the cooling fan cage................................................................................................................................46
Installing the cooling fan cage.................................................................................................................................. 47
Fan board tray....................................................................................................................................................................48
Fan board view.............................................................................................................................................................48
Removing the fan board tray....................................................................................................................................49
Installing the fan board tray...................................................................................................................................... 49
Front PERC module.......................................................................................................................................................... 50
Removing the front PERC module.......................................................................................................................... 50
Installing the front PERC module.............................................................................................................................51
Drives................................................................................................................................................................................... 53
Removing a drive blank.............................................................................................................................................. 53
Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................ 53
Removing a drive carrier............................................................................................................................................54
Installing a drive carrier..............................................................................................................................................55
Removing the drive from the drive carrier............................................................................................................56
Installing a drive into the drive carrier.................................................................................................................... 57
Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier................................................................... 58
Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier................................................................... 59
Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter................................................................................ 60
Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter..................................................................................... 61
Drive backplane..................................................................................................................................................................62
Drive backplane............................................................................................................................................................62
Removing the 3.5-inch drive backplane ............................................................................................................... 63
Installing the 3.5-inch drive backplane...................................................................................................................64
Removing the 2.5-inch drive backplane ............................................................................................................... 65
Installing the 2.5-inch drive backplane...................................................................................................................66
Drive bays............................................................................................................................................................................67
Removing the drive bay cage blank........................................................................................................................ 67
Installing the drive bay cage blank.......................................................................................................................... 69
Removing a drive bay................................................................................................................................................. 70
Installing a drive bay....................................................................................................................................................72
Cable routing...................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Optional optical drive....................................................................................................................................................... 96
Removing the optical drive blank............................................................................................................................ 96
Installing the optical drive blank...............................................................................................................................96
Removing the optical drive........................................................................................................................................97
Installing the optical drive..........................................................................................................................................98
Optional tape backup unit............................................................................................................................................... 99
Removing the tape backup unit blank.................................................................................................................... 99
Installing the tape backup unit blank.....................................................................................................................100
Removing the tape backup unit.............................................................................................................................. 101
Installing the tape backup unit................................................................................................................................102
Front IO module............................................................................................................................................................... 103
Removing the front IO module............................................................................................................................... 103
Installing the front IO module................................................................................................................................. 104
System memory............................................................................................................................................................... 106
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