Lenovo X120E 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
Chapter 2. Important service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Strategy for replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . 17
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive . . . 18
Important notice for replacing a system
board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
How to use error message . . . . . . . . 18
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Product denition. . . . . . . . . . . . 18
FRU identication for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 3. General checkout . . . . . 21
What to do rst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Checkout guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS. . . . 22
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox. . . . . . . 25
FRU tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Power system checkout . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Checking the ac adapter . . . . . . . . . 27
Checking operational charging . . . . . . 27
Checking the battery pack . . . . . . . . 27
Checking the backup battery . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 4. Related service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery
Disc Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Power-on password. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Hard-disk password. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Supervisor password . . . . . . . . . . 31
How to remove the power-on password . . . 31
How to remove the hard-disk password . . . 31
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Screen blank mode . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Sleep or standby mode . . . . . . . . . 32
Hibernation mode . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Numeric error codes . . . . . . . . . . 34
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . 36
LCD-related symptoms . . . . . . . . . 36
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 37
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 5. Status indicators . . . . . 39
Chapter 6. Fn key combinations . . . 41
Chapter 7. FRU replacement
notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Screw notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Retaining serial numbers. . . . . . . . . . . 46
Restoring the serial number of the system
unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Retaining the UUID . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 47
Chapter 8. Removing and replacing a
FRU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Before servicing ThinkPad X100e and ThinkPad
X120e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
1010 Battery pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1020 Bottom door . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
1030 Hard disk drive (HDD). . . . . . . . . . 54
1040 DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
1050 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN . . 57
1060 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN . . 58
1070 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2) . . . . . 60
1080 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
1090 Palm rest assembly, power-on board
assembly (with cable), and microphone . . . . . 64
1100 CRT board assembly (with cable) . . . . . 68
1110 Speaker assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1120 I/O board (for ThinkPad X120e) . . . . . . 70
1130 System board, fan assembly, and backup
battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
1140 LCD unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
1150 DC-in cable and base cover assembly . . . 79
2010 LCD bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . . 82
2020 Integrated camera . . . . . . . . . . . 83
2030 LCD panel, hinges, and LCD cable . . . . 84
2090 Antenna kit and LCD rear cover assembly. . 86
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