Lenovo L420 Laptop User Manual


 
Contents
About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Safety information . . . . . 1
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic
discharge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Safety notices (multilingual translations). . . . . . 4
Laser compliance statement (multilingual
translations). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 2. Important service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Strategy for replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . 25
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive . . . 26
Important notice for replacing a system
board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
How to use error message . . . . . . . . 26
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Product denition. . . . . . . . . . . . 26
FRU identication for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 3. General checkout . . . . . 29
What to do rst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Checkout guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS. . . . 30
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox. . . . . . . 33
FRU tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Power system checkout . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Checking the ac power adapter . . . . . . 34
Checking operational charging . . . . . . 35
Checking the battery pack . . . . . . . . 35
Checking the backup battery . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4. Related service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery
Disc Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Power-on password. . . . . . . . . . . 38
Hard-disk password. . . . . . . . . . . 38
Supervisor password . . . . . . . . . . 39
How to remove the power-on password . . . 39
How to remove the hard-disk password . . . 39
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Screen blank mode . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Sleep (standby) mode . . . . . . . . . . 40
Hibernation mode . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Numeric error codes . . . . . . . . . . 42
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . 44
LCD-related symptoms . . . . . . . . . 44
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 45
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 5. Status indicators . . . . . 47
Chapter 6. Fn key combinations . . . 49
Chapter 7. FRU replacement
notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Screw notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Retaining serial numbers. . . . . . . . . . . 54
Restoring the serial number of the system
unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Retaining the UUID . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 55
Chapter 8. Removing and replacing a
FRU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
1010 Battery pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
1020 ExpressCard blank bezel and Media Card
blank bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1030 Optical drive or travel cover . . . . . . . 60
1040 Thermal cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
1050 Hard disk drive or solid state drive
assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
1060 DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
1070 Fan assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
1080 CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
1090 SIM slot cover . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1110 Wireless WAN slot cover and PCI Express
Mini Card for wireless WAN. . . . . . . . . . 71
1110 mSATA solid state drive . . . . . . . . . 73
1120 Palm rest assembly with cables. . . . . . 74
1130 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN . . 78
1140 Backup battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
1150 Bluetooth daughter card . . . . . . . . 80
1160 Media Card Reader slot board and Media
Card Reader cable assembly . . . . . . . . . 81
1170 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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