User 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
- 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
Intrusion switch module................................................................................................................................................. 153
Removing the intrusion switch module................................................................................................................ 153
Installing the intrusion switch module...................................................................................................................154
Power supply unit............................................................................................................................................................ 155
Hot spare feature...................................................................................................................................................... 155
Removing a power supply unit blank.....................................................................................................................156
Installing a power supply unit blank.......................................................................................................................156
Removing a power supply unit adapter................................................................................................................ 157
Installing a power supply unit adapter.................................................................................................................. 157
Removing a AC power supply unit.........................................................................................................................158
Installing a AC power supply unit........................................................................................................................... 159
Power interposer board.................................................................................................................................................. 161
PIB board view............................................................................................................................................................ 161
Removing the power interposer board..................................................................................................................161
Installing the power interposer board................................................................................................................... 162
System board....................................................................................................................................................................163
Removing the system board................................................................................................................................... 163
Installing the system board......................................................................................................................................164
Restoring Service Tag using Easy Restore..........................................................................................................166
Trusted Platform Module...............................................................................................................................................167
Upgrading the Trusted Platform Module............................................................................................................. 167
Initializing TPM for users......................................................................................................................................... 168
Initializing the TPM 1.2 for users............................................................................................................................168
Initializing the TPM 2.0 for users...........................................................................................................................168
Chapter 6: Jumpers and connectors...........................................................................................169
System board connectors..............................................................................................................................................169
System board jumper settings.......................................................................................................................................171
Disabling a forgotten password.....................................................................................................................................171
Chapter 7: System diagnostics and indicator codes.................................................................... 173
Status LED indicators..................................................................................................................................................... 173
System health and system ID indicator codes.......................................................................................................... 174
iDRAC Quick Sync 2 indicator codes.......................................................................................................................... 174
iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes...............................................................................................................................175
NIC indicator codes......................................................................................................................................................... 176
Power supply unit indicator codes...............................................................................................................................176
Drive indicator codes...................................................................................................................................................... 178
Using system diagnostics...............................................................................................................................................179
Dell Embedded System Diagnostics...................................................................................................................... 179
Chapter 8: Getting help.............................................................................................................. 181
Recycling or End-of-Life service information............................................................................................................181
Contacting Dell Technologies........................................................................................................................................ 181
Accessing system information by using QRL.............................................................................................................181
Quick Resource Locator for PowerEdge T550 system.................................................................................... 182
Receiving automated support with SupportAssist ................................................................................................. 182
Chapter 9: Documentation resources......................................................................................... 183
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