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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
SimpleTap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ThinkVantage Productivity Center . . . . . . . 30
Access Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 31
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
For machine types: 3063, 3231, 3285, 4084,
4085, 4086, 4087, 6138, 6209, 6239, 6302,
7188, 7244, 7347, 7355, 7358, 7373, 7484,
7571, 7628, 7635, 7639, 8494, 8854, 9728,
9960, and 9965. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
For machine types: 3379, 4083, 4088, 4099,
4138, 5897, 6137, 6234, 6258, 6303, 7174,
7220, 7346, 7354, 7357, 7360, 7483, 7582,
7627, 7630, 7638, 8910, and 9964. . . . . . 32
Chapter 4. General checkout . . . . . 35
Problem determination tips. . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 5. Diagnostic programs . . . 37
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox . . . . . . . . 37
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Lenovo System Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . 38
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . . . 38
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Creating a diagnostic disc . . . . . . . . 39
Running the diagnostic program from the
diagnostic disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Navigating through the diagnostic programs . 39
Running tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility. . . 43
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 43
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 43
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 43
Power-On Password . . . . . . . . . . 44
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 44
Hard Disk User Password . . . . . . . . 44
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 44
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 44
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 45
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 45
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 45
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU index . . 47
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . . 47
Power Supply Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Diagnostic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 67
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 8. Replacing FRUs (Machine
Types: 3063, 3231, 3285, 4084, 4085,
4086, 4087, 6138, 6209, 6239, 6302,
7188, 7244, 7347, 7355, 7358, 7373,
7484, 7571, 7628, 7635, 7639, 8494,
8854, 9728, 9960, and 9965.) . . . . . 71
Locating connectors on thefront of the computer . 71
Locating connectors on the rear of the computer . 72
Removing the computer cover . . . . . . . . 73
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Locating parts on the system board . . . . . . 76
Removing and reinstalling the front bezel . . . . 77
Replacing a memory module . . . . . . . . . 78
Replacing the power supply . . . . . . . . . 79
Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly . . . . 80
Replacing the microprocessor . . . . . . . . 81
Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . 84
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Replacing an adapter card . . . . . . . . . . 87
Replacing the primary hard disk drive. . . . . . 89
Replacing the secondary hard disk drive . . . . 92
Replacing the optical drive . . . . . . . . . . 94
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