TX2550 M4 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
4.11 Handling fan bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.11.1 Removing the fan bridge with fan modules (high performance
variant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.11.2 Installing the fan bridge with fan modules (high performance
variant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.11.3 Removing the fan bridge (low performance variant) . . . . . . . 92
4.11.4 Installing the fan bridge (low performance variant) . . . . . . . 93
4.12 Handling accessible drive bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.12.1 Opening the accessible drive locking bar . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.12.1.1 TX2550 M4 (floorstand model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.12.1.2 TX2550 M4 (rack model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
4.12.2 Closing the accessible drive locking bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.12.2.1 TX2550 M4 (floorstand model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.12.2.2 TX2550 M4 (rack model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
4.12.3 Accessible drive filler covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.12.3.1 Removing accessible drive filler covers . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.12.3.2 Installing accessible drive filler covers . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
4.12.4 Accessible drive covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
4.12.4.1 Removing accessible drive covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
4.12.4.2 Installing accessible drive covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.13 Handling the anti-tilt bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.13.1 Installing the anti-tilt bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.13.2 Removing the anti-tilt bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.1.1 Suspending BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.1.2 Disabling the boot watchdog functionality of ServerView
Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.1.2.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.1.2.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.1.3 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.1.4 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 109
5.1.5 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the BIOS and iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup/restore . . . . . . . . . . 113