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Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . . 1
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . 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
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Lenovo Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Product Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SimpleTap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery . . . . . . 30
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 33
Problem determination tips. . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 35
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 37
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 37
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 38
Power-On Password . . . . . . . . . . 38
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 38
Hard Disk Password. . . . . . . . . . . 38
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 38
Erasing lost or forgotten passwords (clearing
CMOS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 39
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 39
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 40
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Enabling ErP compliance mode and Deep Sx . . 40
Exiting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 7. Conguring RAID . . . . . 43
Conguring RAID with Intel RSTe . . . . . . . 43
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives . . . 43
Conguring SATA or SAS RAID functionality
with the Intel RSTe conguration utility . . . 44
Quick RAID setup using the LSI MegaRAID BIOS
conguration utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives . . . 46
Entering the LSI MegaRAID BIOS conguration
utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Creating RAID volumes using the LSI
MegaRAID BIOS conguration utility . . . . 47
Deleting RAID volumes using the LSI
MegaRAID BIOS conguration utility . . . . 48
Setting the hot spare hard disk drive . . . . 48
Chapter 8. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . 49
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . . 49
Power Supply Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 51
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 9. Locations . . . . . . . . . 55
Locating connectors, controls, and indicators on
the front of your computer . . . . . . . . . . 55
Locating connectors on the rear of your
computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Locating major FRUs and CRUs . . . . . . . . 56
Looking up FRU information . . . . . . . . . 58
Locating parts on the system board . . . . . . 58
Locating internal drives . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 10. Replacing FRUs . . . . . 63
Installing or replacing hardware . . . . . . . . 63
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . 63
Installing external options . . . . . . . . 63
Removing the computer cover. . . . . . . 64
Removing and reinstalling the front bezel . . 65
Installing or replacing a PCI card. . . . . . 66
Installing or replacing a memory module. . . 69
Installing or replacing the optical drive . . . 72
Replacing the card reader . . . . . . . . 75
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . 77
Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly . . 78
Replacing the hard disk drive fan assembly . 80
Replacing the rear fan assembly . . . . . . 81
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