Contents
About this manual ....................................... iv
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......................... 14
Important service information ................... 16
Strategy for replacing FRUs ......................... 16
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive ............17
Important notice for replacing a system board ..17
How to use error message ...............................17
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV .............................................................. 18
Product denition ..............................................18
FRU identication for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products ............................................................18
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs ............................................ 20
General checkout ...................................... 21
What to do rst ............................................. 22
Power system checkout................................ 23
Checking the AC adapter .................................23
Checking operational charging .........................23
Checking the battery pack ...............................24
Related service information ...................... 25
Restoring the factory contents by using
OneKey Recovery ........................................ 25
Restore of factory default .................................25
Using recovery disks.........................................25
Passwords .................................................... 26
Power-on password ..........................................26
Hard-disk password .........................................26
Supervisor password .......................................27
How to remove the hard-disk password ..........27
Power management ..................................... 28
Screen blank mode ...........................................28
Sleep (standby) mode ......................................28
Hibernation mode .............................................29
Symptom-to-FRU index ................................ 30
Numeric error codes .........................................30
Error messages ...............................................32
Beep symptoms ................................................33
No-beep symptoms ..........................................33
LCD-related symptoms .....................................34
Intermittent problems ........................................35
Undetermined problems ...................................35
Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 ................................. 36
Specications ............................................... 36
Status indicators ........................................... 39
FRU tests ...................................................... 41
Fn key combinations..................................... 42
FRU replacement notices ............................. 43
Screw notices ..................................................43
Retaining serial numbers ..................................44
Removing and replacing an FRU ................. 47
1010 Battery pack .............................................48
1020 Hard disk drive (HDD) slot cover
and HDD ...........................................................49
1030 Optical drive .............................................51
1040 Thermal slot cover ...................................52
1050 DIMM .......................................................53
1060 Fan assembly and Heat Sink assembly .. 54
1070 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless
LAN/WAN .........................................................57
1080 CPU .........................................................59
1090 Keyboard cover, power board
and slidebar ......................................................60
1100 Keyboard ..................................................63
1110 Keyboard bezel and speaker ...................64
1120 LCD unit ...................................................70
1130
System board and PC Card/ExpressCard
slots assembly .................................................... 72
1140 Bluetooth daughter card and base cover . 76
1150 LCD front bezel ........................................79
1160 LCD panel, LCD cable, and hinges..........80
1170 Integrated camera ....................................83
1180 Antenna assembly and LCD cover ..........84
Locations ...................................................... 85
Front view .........................................................85
Right-side view .................................................86
Bottom and Left-side view ...............................86
Parts list ........................................................ 87
Overall ..............................................................88
LCD FRUs ........................................................92
Keyboard ..........................................................94
Miscellaneous parts ..........................................95
AC adapters ......................................................96
Power cords ......................................................97
Common service tools ......................................98
Notices......................................................... 99
Trademarks ................................................ 100