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Dell PowerEdge R760 Installation and Service Manual

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Installing the drive backplane

Prerequisites

  1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system.
  3. Remove the drive backplane cover.
  4. If installed, remove the air shroud or remove the GPU air shroud.
  5. Remove the cooling fan cage assembly.
  6. Remove the drives.
  7. If required, remove the rear mounting front PERC module.
  8. Observe and disconnect the drive backplane cables from the connector on the system board and backplane.
    NOTE:See cable routing section for more information.
NOTE:To avoid damaging the backplane, remove the disconnected backplane cables from the cable routing clips.
NOTE:Route the cable properly when you replace it to prevent the cable from being pinched or crimped.

Steps

  1. Align the slots on the drive backplane with the guides on the system.
  2. Slide the drive backplane into the guides on the system and lower the backplane until one or more blue release tabs clicks into place.
    Figure 1. Installing the drive backplane
    This image shows Installing the drive backplane.
    Figure 2. Installing the drive backplane
    This image shows Installing the drive backplane.

Next steps

  1. Connect the drive backplane cables to the connectors on the system board and backplane.
  2. Install the drives.
  3. If required, install the rear mounting front PERC module.
  4. Install the cooling fan cage assembly.
  5. If removed, install the air shroudor install the GPU air shroud
  6. Install the drive backplane cover.
  7. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.

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