- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- PowerEdge R740 system overview
- Documentation resources
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Backplane cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling fan assembly
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- NVDIMM-N battery
- Drives
- Drive guidelines
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5 inch drive from the 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into the 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5 inch adapter from a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5 inch adapter into a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Opening and closing the PCIe card holder latch
- Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing riser 2 and 3 blank
- Installing riser 2 and 3 blank
- Removing riser 3 blank
- Installing riser 3 blank
- Removing expansion card riser 1
- Installing expansion card riser 1
- Removing expansion card riser 2
- Installing expansion card riser 2
- Removing expansion card riser 3
- Installing expansion card riser 3
- GPU or ACLR card installation guidelines
- Removing a GPU
- Installing a GPU
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Network daughter card
- Integrated storage controller card
- Backplane
- Cable routing
- System battery
- USB 3.0 module
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Optional optical drive
- Power supply units
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Control panel
- System diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 Installation and Service Manual
Removing the backplane
The procedure to remove the backplane is identical for all backplane configurations.
Prerequisites
CAUTION:To prevent damage
to the drives and backplane, remove the drives from the system before
removing the backplane.
CAUTION:Note the number of
each drive and temporarily label them before you remove the drive
so that you can replace them in the same locations.
- Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
- Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
- Remove the air shroud.
- Remove the cooling fan assembly.
- Remove the backplane cover.
- Remove all drives.
- Disconnect all the cables from the backplane.
Steps
Press the release tabs and lift the backplane to disengage the backplane
from the hooks on the system.Figure 1. Removing the
backplane 
Next steps
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