Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Service Manual

Processor and heat sink
Removing a heat sink
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions.
2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system.
3. If installed, remove the air shroud.
WARNING: The heat sink and processor are too hot to touch for some time after the system has been powered
off. Allow the heat sink and processor to cool down before handling them.
NOTE: The procedure to uninstall standard and L-type heat sink is similar.
Steps
1. Using a Torx #T20 screwdriver, loosen the captive screws in the order that is mentioned on the heat sink:
a. Partially loosen the captive screws 1 and 2 (approximately 3 turns).
b. Partially loosen the captive screws 3 and 4 (approximately 3 turns).
c. Loosen the captive screws 1 and 2 completely.
d. Loosen the captive screws 3 and 4 completely.
NOTE: The captive screw numbers are marked on the heat sink.
2. Lift the heat sink from the system.
Figure 75. Removing a heat sink
Next steps
1. If you are uninstalling a faulty heat sink, replace the heat sink, else remove the processor.
Installing and removing system components
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Dell EMC PowerEdge R7525 Specifications

General

Form Factor	2U Rack
Processor	Up to two AMD EPYC 7002 or 7003 Series processors, up to 64 cores per processor
Memory	32 DDR4 DIMM slots, up to 4TB
Storage	Up to 24x 2.5" SAS/SATA/NVMe drives, or 12x 3.5" SAS/SATA drives
RAID Controller	PERC H345
Power Supply	1100W Platinum
PCIe Slots	Up to 8 x PCIe Gen4 slots
Operating System Support	Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Windows Server