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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
Online Books folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 29
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 31
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 33
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox . . . . . . . . 33
Lenovo System Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . 33
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . . . 34
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating a diagnostic disc . . . . . . . . 34
Running the diagnostic program from a
diagnostic disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Navigating through the diagnostics
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Running tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 39
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 39
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 39
Power-On Password . . . . . . . . . . 40
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 40
Hard Disk Password. . . . . . . . . . . 40
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 40
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 40
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 41
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 41
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 41
Chapter 7. Conguring RAID . . . . . 43
RAID Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Conguring the system BIOS to enable SATA RAID
functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Creating RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Deleting RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 8. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . 45
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . . 45
Power Supply Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Diagnostic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 65
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 9. Replacing FRUs . . . . . . 69
Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Locating connectors on the front of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Locating connectors on the rear of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . 70
Locating parts on the system board . . . . 71
Locating internal drives . . . . . . . . . 72
Removing the computer cover . . . . . . . . 73
Removing and reinstalling the front bezel . . . . 74
Installing or replacing a PCI card . . . . . . . 75
Installing or replacing a memory module . . . . 78
Installing or replacing the optical drive . . . . . 80
Replacing the power supply assembly . . . . . 82
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly . . . . 85
Replacing the microprocessor . . . . . . . . 86
Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . 88
Replacing the primary hard disk drive. . . . . . 91
Replacing the secondary hard disk drive . . . . 93
Replacing the card reader . . . . . . . . . . 95
Replacing the front fan assembly . . . . . . . 96
Replacing the rear fan assembly. . . . . . . . 98
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