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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Important safety
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Arranging your
workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Glare and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Air circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Electrical outlets and cable lengths . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 3. Setting up your computer . . 5
Connecting your computer . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Turning on computer power . . . . . . . . . . 9
Finishing the software installation . . . . . . . 10
Completing important tasks . . . . . . . . . 10
Updating your operating system. . . . . . . . 10
Installing other operating systems . . . . . . . 10
Updating your antivirus software . . . . . . . 11
Shutting down the computer . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing external options . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing the computer on a rack shelf . . . . . 11
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 4. Software overview. . . . . 15
Software provided with your Windows operating
system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Software provided by Lenovo . . . . . . . 15
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . 15
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox. . . . . . . 16
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . 16
Adobe Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 5. Using the Setup Utility. . . 17
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 17
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 17
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 17
User Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 18
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 18
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 18
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 19
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 19
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 19
Chapter 6. Installing hard disk drives
and conguring RAID . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing SATA hard disk drives and conguring
RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing SATA hard disk drives . . . . . . 21
Conguring the system BIOS to enable SATA
RAID functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Creating RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 22
Deleting RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing SAS hard disk drives and conguring
RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing SAS hard disk drives. . . . . . . 22
Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to congure
SAS RAID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
SAS RAID 0, 1, or 5 functionality . . . . . . 23
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . . 24
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . 24
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 7. Updating system
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using system programs . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Updating (ashing) the BIOS from a disc . . . . 25
Updating (ashing) the BIOS from your operating
system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . 26
Chapter 8. Troubleshooting and
diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Basic troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox. . . . . . . 29
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . 29
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Cleaning an optical mouse . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 9. Recovery information . . . 33
Creating and using recovery media . . . . . . 33
Creating recovery media . . . . . . . . . 33
Using recovery media . . . . . . . . . . 33
Performing backup and recovery operations . . . 34
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