Lenovo 4218 Personal Computer User Manual


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Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . . 1
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . 1
Important information about replacing 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
Lenovo Welcome Center. . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SimpleTap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 29
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 33
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 35
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools . . . . . . . . . 35
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . . . 35
PC-Doctor for Windows PE. . . . . . . . . . 36
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace . . . . . . . . . . 36
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Creating a diagnostic CD/DVD image . . . . 36
Running diagnostics from the disc . . . . . 36
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace . . . . . . . . . . 37
Navigating through the diagnostics
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Running tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility. . . 41
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 41
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 41
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 41
User Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Administrator 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
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 44
Chapter 7. Installing hard disk drives
and conguring RAID (types 4105,
4157, 4217) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing SATA hard disk drives and conguring
RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing SATA hard disk drives . . . . . . 45
Conguring the system BIOS to enable SATA
RAID functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 46
Deleting RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing SAS hard disk drives and conguring
RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing SAS hard disk drives. . . . . . . 46
Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to congure
SAS RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
SAS RAID 0, 1, or 5 functionality . . . . . . 47
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . . 48
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . 48
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter 8. Installing hard disk drives
and conguring RAID (types: 4155,
4158, 4218) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives and
conguring RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives . . . 49
Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to congure
SATA or SAS RAID . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
SATA or SAS RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10 functionality . 50
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . . 50
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . 50
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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