1 Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 overview.............................................................................................. 8
Supported configurations for PowerEdge R640............................................................................................................... 8
Front view of the system....................................................................................................................................................10
Left control panel view.................................................................................................................................................. 13
Right control panel view................................................................................................................................................16
Back view of the system..................................................................................................................................................... 17
NIC indicator codes.......................................................................................................................................................20
Power supply unit indicator codes............................................................................................................................... 21
Drive indicator codes...........................................................................................................................................................23
LCD panel............................................................................................................................................................................. 23
Viewing Home screen................................................................................................................................................... 24
Setup menu.................................................................................................................................................................... 24
View menu......................................................................................................................................................................25
Locating the Service Tag of your system........................................................................................................................ 25
System information label.................................................................................................................................................... 26
2 Documentation resources........................................................................................................... 29
3 Technical specifications.............................................................................................................. 31
System dimensions...............................................................................................................................................................31
Chassis weight.....................................................................................................................................................................32
Processor specifications.....................................................................................................................................................32
Supported operating systems............................................................................................................................................32
Cooling fan specifications...................................................................................................................................................32
PSU specifications...............................................................................................................................................................32
System battery specifications............................................................................................................................................33
Expansion cards and expansion card risers......................................................................................................................33
Expansion bus specifications........................................................................................................................................33
Removing an expansion card riser...............................................................................................................................38
Installing an expansion card riser................................................................................................................................. 40
Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser.........................................................................................42
Installing an expansion card into expansion card riser.............................................................................................. 44
Memory specifications........................................................................................................................................................ 47
Storage controller specifications....................................................................................................................................... 48
Drives.................................................................................................................................................................................... 48
Hard drive specifications.............................................................................................................................................. 48
Optical drive................................................................................................................................................................... 48
Ports and connectors specifications.................................................................................................................................49
USB ports....................................................................................................................................................................... 49
NIC ports........................................................................................................................................................................ 49
Serial port....................................................................................................................................................................... 49
VGA ports.......................................................................................................................................................................50
IDSDM or vFlash card...................................................................................................................................................50
Environmental specifications............................................................................................................................................. 50
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