Contents
About this manual ..........v
Safety information ..........1
General safety ..............2
Electrical safety .............3
Safety inspection guide ...........5
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic
discharge ...............6
Grounding requirements ..........6
Safety notices (multilingual translations) .....7
Laser compliance statement (multilingual
translations) ..............28
Important service information .....39
Strategy for replacing FRUs .........39
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive ....40
Important notice for replacing a system board . . 40
How to use error message ........40
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV.................41
Product definition ...........41
FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products ..............41
General checkout ..........43
What to do first .............44
Checkout guide .............45
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS ....45
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox (Lenovo System
Toolbox) ..............48
PC-Doctor for Windows .........48
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery .....49
FRU tests ..............50
Power system checkout ..........52
Checking the ac adapter .........52
Checking operational charging .......53
Checking the battery pack ........53
Checking the backup battery .......54
Related service information......55
Restoring the factory contents by using Product
Recovery discs .............55
Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery
Disc Set ...............56
Passwords...............57
Power-on password ..........57
Hard-disk password ..........57
Supervisor password ..........58
How to remove the power-on password ....58
How to remove the hard-disk password ....59
Power management ...........60
Screen blank mode ...........60
Sleep (standby) mode ..........60
Hibernation mode ...........61
Symptom-to-FRU index ..........62
Numeric error codes ..........62
Error messages ............66
Beep symptoms ............67
No-beep symptoms...........67
LCD-related symptoms .........68
Intermittent problems ..........69
Undetermined problems .........69
Installing and configuring RAID ....71
Supported RAID configurations .......71
Configuring the system BIOS to enable embedded
SATA RAID functionality ..........71
Creating RAID volumes ..........72
Deleting RAID volumes ..........72
Status indicators ..........73
Fn key combinations ........77
FRU replacement notices.......81
Screw notices ..............81
Retaining serial numbers ..........82
Restoring the serial number of the system unit 82
Retaining the UUID ..........82
Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 83
Removing and replacing a FRU ....85
Important notice for servicing ThinkPad W700ds
and W701ds ..............86
1010 Battery pack ............88
1020 Digitizer pen ............89
1030 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device .....90
1040 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover, HDD and HDD
rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and storage
converter ...............91
1050 DIMM slot cover and DIMM .......94
1060 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader 98
1070 Digitizer pen case assembly .......102
1080 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) for W701
and W701ds ..............103
1090 Keyboard .............104
1100 Backup battery ...........106
1110 Numeric keypad ..........108
1120 DIMM slot cover and DIMM under keyboard
for W701 and W701ds ..........111
1130 Keyboard bezel and speaker assembly . . . 113
1140 Wireless USB adapter or Intel Turbo Memory
Minicard ...............119
1150 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless
LAN/WiMAX .............121
1160 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard ......125
1170 CPU thermal device/fan ........127
1180 VGA thermal device/fan and thermal putty 131
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