Enhance your system maintenance skills with this comprehensive guide. Covering steps from air shroud removal to right control panel installation, ensure proper cable routing and secure system components.
In this video, we show how to replace the right control panel on a PowerEdge R760XS before moving the right control panel read through and follow the safety guidelines to protect your system from potential damage and ensure your personal safety. For more information about safety guidelines see the R 760 service manual at Dell.com/Support. In order to remove the right control panel, you must first remove the cover, air shroud fan cage assembly and drive back plane cover to remove the cover, use a screwdriver to rotate the lock counterclockwise to the unlocked position.
Next lift the release latch, then lift the cover from the system to remove the air shroud, hold the air shroud at both ends and lift it out of the system to remove the fan cage assembly. Lift the blue release levers holding the release levers, lift it up and away from the system to remove the dry back plan covers side it towards the rear and lift it away from the system to remove the right control panel, disconnect the cables from the system board, remove the five screws, securing the cable cover to the system and remove the cable cover.
Next, remove the screws, securing the control panel to the system, then slide it away from the system to remove, to install the right control panel, align and slide it into the slot on the system. Next, tighten the screws to secure the control panel to the system. Insert the cables to this slot on the system, then align the cables and insert the cable cover into the slot on the system and tighten the five screws securing it in place, then route and connect the control panel cables to the system board to install the drive back plane cover, align and lower into the system and slide it towards the front of the system to install the fan cage assembly align the guide rails with the standoffs on the system.
Then press the release levers to lock the assembly into the system to install the air shroud, align it with the chassis and lower until firmly seated to install the cover align the system cover with the guide slots on the system and place it on the system. Next close a system cover release latch. Finally using a screwdriver, rotate the lock clockwise to the lock position for more information or support visit Dell.com/Support.
