Removing a cooling fan............................................................................................................................................. 78
Installing a cooling fan................................................................................................................................................79
Removing an intrusion switch.................................................................................................................................. 80
Installing an intrusion switch......................................................................................................................................81
Removing the NVDIMM-N battery from the air shroud....................................................................................... 82
Installing NVDIMM-N battery into air shroud......................................................................................................... 83
Removing a hard drive blank.................................................................................................................................... 84
Installing a hard drive blank.......................................................................................................................................85
Removing a hard drive...............................................................................................................................................86
Installing a hard drive................................................................................................................................................. 87
Removing the hard drive from the hard drive carrier............................................................................................88
Installing a hard drive into the hard drive carrier....................................................................................................88
General memory module installation guidelines.......................................................................................................91
NVDIMM-N memory module installation guidelines ..............................................................................................91
Mode-specific guidelines...........................................................................................................................................93
Removing a memory module.................................................................................................................................... 94
Installing a memory module...................................................................................................................................... 95
Removing a processor and heat sink module.........................................................................................................96
Removing the processor from the processor and heat sink module................................................................... 97
Installing the processor into a processor and heat sink module...........................................................................99
Installing a processor and heat sink module...........................................................................................................101
Expansion card installation guidelines.................................................................................................................... 103
Opening and closing the PCIe card holder latch.................................................................................................. 106
Removing the expansion card from expansion card riser.................................................................................... 107
Installing expansion card into expansion card riser................................................................................................110
Removing riser 2 and 3 blank...................................................................................................................................112
Installing riser 2 and 3 blank..................................................................................................................................... 113
Removing riser 3 blank............................................................................................................................................. 114
Installing riser 3 blank................................................................................................................................................115
Removing expansion card riser 1............................................................................................................................. 116
Installing expansion card riser 1................................................................................................................................117
Removing expansion card riser 2.............................................................................................................................118
Installing expansion card riser 2...............................................................................................................................119
Removing expansion card riser 3.............................................................................................................................121
Installing expansion card riser 3.............................................................................................................................. 122
GPU card installation guidelines..............................................................................................................................122
Removing GPU card.................................................................................................................................................123
Installing GPU card................................................................................................................................................... 123
Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 Installation and Service Manual
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