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About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Safety information . . . . . . 1
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic
discharge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Safety notices (multilingual translations) . . . . . . 4
Laser compliance statements (multilingual
translations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 2. Important service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Strategy for replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . 25
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive, a solid
state drive, or an mSATA solid state drive . . 25
Important notice for replacing a system
board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
How to use error codes . . . . . . . . . 26
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Product denition. . . . . . . . . . . . 26
FRU identication for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 3. General checkout . . . . . 29
What to do rst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Checkout guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . 30
Quick test programs. . . . . . . . . . . 30
UEFI diagnostic program . . . . . . . . . 31
Bootable diagnostic programs. . . . . . . 31
Power system checkout . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Checking the ac power adapter . . . . . . 32
Checking operational charging . . . . . . 33
Checking the battery pack . . . . . . . . 33
Checking the backup battery . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 4. Related service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Restoring the factory contents by using the
product Recovery Disc Set . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Windows recovery programs on the
Windows 8 operating system . . . . . . . . . 36
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Power-on password . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Hard disk password . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Supervisor password . . . . . . . . . . 39
How to remove the power-on password . . . 39
How to remove the hard disk password . . . 40
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Screen blank mode (for the Windows 7
operating system only). . . . . . . . . . 40
Sleep mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Hibernation mode . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Numeric error codes . . . . . . . . . . 42
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . 44
LCD-related symptoms . . . . . . . . . 44
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 45
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 5. Installing and conguring
RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Supported RAID levels . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Conguring the system UEFI BIOS to enable
embedded SATA RAID functionality . . . . . . 47
Creating RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Deleting RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter 6. Status indicators . . . . . 49
Chapter 7. Fn key combinations . . . 53
Chapter 8. Locations . . . . . . . . . 55
Locating computer controls, connectors, and
indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Front view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Bottom view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Locating FRUs and CRUs . . . . . . . . . . 56
Major FRUs and CRUs. . . . . . . . . . 58
LCD FRUs and CRUs . . . . . . . . . . 60
Miscellaneous kits and other FRUs . . . . . 61
Looking up FRU information . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 9. FRU replacement
notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Screw notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Retaining serial numbers. . . . . . . . . . . 64
Restoring the serial number of the system
unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Retaining the UUID . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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