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Important safety information . . . . . vii
Chapter 1. Product overview . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Software overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Software provided by Lenovo . . . . . . . . 4
Adobe Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Antivirus software. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Locating connectors on the front of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Locating connectors on the rear of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Locating parts on the system board . . . . . 9
Locating internal drives . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2. Installing or replacing
hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . 11
Installing or replacing hardware . . . . . . . . 11
Installing external options . . . . . . . . 11
Opening the computer cover . . . . . . . 12
Accessing the system board components and
drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing or replacing a memory module. . . 13
Installing or replacing a PCI card . . . . . . 15
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . 17
Replacing the hard disk drive . . . . . . . 18
Replacing the optical drive . . . . . . . . 20
Replacing the power supply assembly . . . 22
Replacing the heat sink . . . . . . . . . 24
Replacing the front audio and USB
assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Replacing the system fan. . . . . . . . . 27
Replacing the internal speaker. . . . . . . 28
Replacing the keyboard or mouse . . . . . 31
Completing the parts replacement . . . . . 32
Installing security features . . . . . . . . . . 33
Integrated cable lock . . . . . . . . . . 33
Password protection . . . . . . . . . . 34
Erasing lost or forgotten passwords (clearing
CMOS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 3. Recovery information. . . 35
Creating and using recovery media . . . . . . 35
Creating recovery media . . . . . . . . . 35
Using recovery media . . . . . . . . . . 36
Performing backup and recovery operations . . . 36
Performing a backup operation . . . . . . 36
Performing a recovery operation . . . . . . 37
Using the Rescue and Recovery workspace . . . 37
Creating and using a rescue medium . . . . . . 38
Creating a rescue medium . . . . . . . . 38
Using a rescue medium . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing or reinstalling device drivers . . . . . 39
Solving recovery problems . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 4. Using the Setup Utility . . 41
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 41
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 41
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 41
Power-On Password . . . . . . . . . . 42
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 42
Hard Disk Password. . . . . . . . . . . 42
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 42
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 43
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 43
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 43
Chapter 5. Updating system
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using system programs . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Updating (ashing) the BIOS from a disc . . . . 45
Updating (ashing) the BIOS from your operating
system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . 46
Chapter 6. Troubleshooting and
diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Basic troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox . . . . . . . 48
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . 49
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Cleaning an optical mouse . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 7. Getting information, help,
and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Information resources . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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