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Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . 1
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . 1
Important information about replacing the RoHS
compliant FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Safety information . . . . . 3
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Voltage-selection switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) . . . . . 6
Chapter 3. General information. . . . 29
Online Books folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools . . . . . . . . . 29
ThinkVantage Productivity Center . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Access Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 30
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 4. General checkout . . . . . 33
Problem determination tips. . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 35
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox . . . . . . . . 35
Lenovo System Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . 35
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . . . 36
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Creating a diagnostic disc . . . . . . . . 36
Running the diagnostic program from a
diagnostic disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Navigating through the diagnostics
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Running tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 39
Viewing or changing settings . . . . . . . . . 39
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 40
Power-on password. . . . . . . . . . . 40
Administrator password . . . . . . . . . 40
Setting, changing, or deleting a password . . 40
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 40
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 41
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 41
Viewing or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Exiting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU index . 43
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . . 43
Power supply problems . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Diagnostic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 63
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 8. Replacing FRUs. . . . . . 67
Locating connectors on the front of your
computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Locating connectors on the rear of your
computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Removing the computer cover . . . . . . . . 68
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Locating parts on the system board . . . . . . 70
Removing and reinstalling the front bezel . . . . 71
Installing or replacing a memory module . . . . 72
Installing or replacing a PCI card . . . . . . . 74
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Replacing the power supply assembly . . . . . 77
Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly . . . . 78
Replacing the microprocessor . . . . . . . . 80
Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . 82
Replacing the primary hard disk drive. . . . . . 83
Replacing the secondary hard disk drive . . . . 85
Replacing the optical drive . . . . . . . . . . 87
Connecting a SATA drive . . . . . . . . . 89
Replacing the card reader . . . . . . . . . . 89
Replacing the front fan assembly . . . . . . . 90
Replacing the rear fan assembly. . . . . . . . 92
Replacing the internal speaker . . . . . . . . 94
Replacing the front audio and USB assembly . . 96
Completing the FRU replacement . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 9. FRU lists . . . . . . . . . 99
Overall: MT 3317, 4013, 4478, 5043, 5237, 5393,
5526, and 6674 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Mechanical FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
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