- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- 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
Dell PowerEdge T550 Installation and Service Manual
Installing a cooling fan
The procedure for installing a standard and a high-performance fan is identical.
Prerequisites
NOTE:Opening or removing the
system cover when the
system is on may expose you to a risk of electric shock. Exercise utmost care while removing or installing cooling fans.
CAUTION:The cooling fans are hot swappable. To maintain proper cooling while the
system is on, replace only one fan at a time.
- Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
- Follow the procedure that is listed in Before working inside your system.
Steps
Align and slide the cooling fan in the slot in the cooling fan cage, until it clicks into place.
Figure 1. Installing a cooling fan 
Next steps
- Install the air shroud.
- Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
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