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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 © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2009 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 Status indicators 71 Fn key combinations 75 FRU replacement notices 79 Screw notices 79 Retaining serial numbers 80 Restoring the serial number of the system unit 80 Retaining the UUID 80 Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 81 Removing and replacing a FRU . . . . 83 1010 Battery pack 84 1020 Serial Ultrabay Slim device 85 1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover, HDD and HDD rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and storage converter 86 1040 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader 88 1050 DIMM 91 1060 Keyboard 92 1070 Modem daughter card (MDC-3.0) . . . . . 94 1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN/WiMAX 96 1090 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard or Wireless USB adapter 98 1100 Backup battery 100 1110 SIM card slot 101 1120 Keyboard bezel 102 1130 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN . . 104 1140 Speaker assembly 106 1150 Fan assembly 108 1160 CPU 112 1170 LCD unit 113 1180 Base cover and USB sub card with cable. . . 116 1190 Structure frame 121 1200 System board and ExpressCard slot assembly 124 2010 LCD front bezel (LCD cover kit) . . . . . 127 2020 LCD rear cover (LCD cover kit) . . . . . 129 2030 Inverter card or LED control card . . . . . 130 2040 Integrated camera 131 2050 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) . . . . 132 2060 Antenna assembly 133 2070 LCD panel and LCD cable 136 2080 Hinges and LCD magnesium frame . . . . 139 iii

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Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
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Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS
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Restoring the factory contents by using Product
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Retaining serial numbers
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