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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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 2. Important service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Strategy for replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . 25
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive or solid
state 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 denition. . . . . . . . . . . . 26
FRU identication 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 (Lenovo System
Toolbox) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . 34
FRU tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Power system checkout . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Checking the ac adapter . . . . . . . . . 35
Checking operational charging . . . . . . 36
Checking the battery pack . . . . . . . . 36
Checking the backup battery . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 4. Related service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery
Disc Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Power-on password . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Hard-disk password. . . . . . . . . . . 40
Supervisor password . . . . . . . . . . 41
How to remove the power-on password . . . 41
How to remove the hard-disk password . . . 41
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Screen blank mode . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sleep (standby) mode . . . . . . . . . . 42
Hibernation mode . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Numeric error codes . . . . . . . . . . 44
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . 50
LCD-related symptoms . . . . . . . . . 50
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 50
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 5. Installing and conguring
RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Supported RAID congurations . . . . . . . . 53
Conguring the system BIOS to enable embedded
SATA RAID functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Deleting RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 6. Status indicators . . . . . 55
Chapter 7. Fn key combinations . . . 59
Chapter 8. FRU replacement
notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Screw notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Retaining serial numbers. . . . . . . . . . . 64
Restoring the serial number of the system
unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Retaining the UUID . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 65
Chapter 9. Removing and replacing a
FRU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Before servicing ThinkPad T510, T510i, and
W510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
1010 Battery pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
1020 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device or travel
bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1030 DIMM slot cover. . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1040 DIMM (bottom slot). . . . . . . . . . . 70
1050 Hard disk drive slot cover, hard disk drive and
HDD rubber rails or solid state drive and storage
converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
1060 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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