Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
2U chassis components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
dx340 system-board tray components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3U chassis components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
I/O
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
I/O enclosures configured with 2.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drives . . . . . 66
I/O enclosures configured with 3.5-inch simple-swap hard disk drives . . . . 67
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 4. Removing and replacing server components
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Removing an expansion enclosure from a system-board tray
Installing an expansion enclosure on a system-board tray . . . . . . . . . 74
Removing the system-board tray from a 2U chassis . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Installing
Removing the system-board tray from a 3U chassis . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Installing
Removing and replacing consumable parts and Tier 1 CRUs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Installing the 2U chassis fan assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Removing the 2U chassis top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Installing the 2U chassis top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Removing the 3U chassis top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing the 3U chassis top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Removing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing the battery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Removing and installing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Removing the power cord
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Installing the power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Removing and replacing Tier 2 CRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing the 2U chassis power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Removing a 2.5-inch hot-swap drive cage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Installing a 2.5-inch hot-swap drive cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Removing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Installing the 3U chassis fan assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Removing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
C multiplexer card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Removing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Installing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Removing and installing a one-bay or four-bay hard disk drive bracket and
cable assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Installing the PCIe adapter bay cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Removing a PCIe riser-card assembly from the system-board tray . . . . 115
Installing a PCIe riser-card assembly in the system-board tray
Removing a power-supply paddle card from an expansion enclosure . . . 117
Installing a power-supply paddle card in an expansion enclosure . . . . . 118
Removing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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