- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 overview
- 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 fans
- Internal PERC riser
- Intrusion switch
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- 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
- 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 drive carrier
- Installing a 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
- Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Removing expansion card from the system board
- Installing expansion card on the system board
- Removing an expansion card riser
- Installing an expansion card riser
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- LOM riser card
- Drive backplane
- Cable routing
- Rear drive cage
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Optical drive (optional)
- Power supply units
- Hot spare feature
- Removing a power supply unit blank
- Installing a power supply unit blank
- Removing a power supply unit
- Installing a power supply unit
- Removing a non-redundant cabled AC power supply unit
- Installing a non-redundant cabled AC power supply unit
- Removing a DC power supply unit
- Installing DC power supply unit
- Wiring instructions for a DC power supply unit
- Power interposer board
- Control panel
- System board
- Restoring the system using Easy Restore
- Entering the system Service Tag by using System Setup
- Trusted Platform Module
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 Installation and Service Manual
Installing the left control panel
Prerequisites
Steps
- Route the control panel cable through the side wall of the system.
- Align the left control panel assembly with the control panel slot on the system and place the assembly in the slot on the system.
- Connect the control panel cable to the system board connector.
- Using Phillips #1 screwdriver, tighten the screws to secure the left control panel assembly to the system.
Figure 1. Installing left control panel 
Next steps
- Installing the air shroud
- Installing PERC card into the internal PERC riser
- Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
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