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
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) . . . . . 6
Chapter 3. General information. . . . 29
The ThinkVantage Productivity Center program . . 29
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 29
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 4. General Checkout. . . . . 31
Checking for power problems. . . . . . . . . 31
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 33
PC-Doctor for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 33
PC-Doctor for Windows PE. . . . . . . . . . 33
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace . . . . . . . . . . 33
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating a diagnostic CD image . . . . . . 34
Creating diagnostic diskettes . . . . . . . 34
Running diagnostics from the CD or
diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Navigating through the diagnostics
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Running tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility . . 39
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 39
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 39
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 39
User Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 40
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 40
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 40
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 40
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 41
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU Index . 43
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . . 43
Diagnostic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 61
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Chapter 8. Replacing FRUs. . . . . . 65
Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Connectors on the front of the computer . . 65
Connectors on the rear of the computer . . . 66
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . 66
System board locations . . . . . . . . . 68
Opening the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Replacing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . 69
Replacing the microprocessor . . . . . . . . 70
Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . 72
Replacing a hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . 73
Replacing an optical drive . . . . . . . . . . 74
Replacing a memory module . . . . . . . . . 75
Replacing the modem . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Replacing the Express card assembly . . . . . 77
Replacing the Media Card Reader . . . . . . . 78
Replacing the system fan assembly . . . . . . 79
Completing the FRU replacement . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 9. FRU lists . . . . . . . . . 83
Machine Type 6393. . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Machine Type 6394. . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Machine Type 6395. . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Machine Type 6396. . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Machine Type 6397. . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Chapter 10. Additional Service
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Security features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Hardware controlled Passwords . . . . . . 139
Operating system password . . . . . . . 139
Vital product data. . . . . . . . . . . . 139
BIOS levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
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