Grounding guidelines ......................................................................................................... 44
Electrostatic discharge damage ........................................................................ 44
Packaging and transporting guidelines ............................................. 45
Workstation guidelines ..................................................................... 45
Equipment guidelines ....................................................................... 46
Component replacement procedures ................................................................................................. 47
Service tag ......................................................................................................................... 47
Battery ............................................................................................................................... 48
SIM .................................................................................................................................... 49
Bottom door ....................................................................................................................... 50
Optical drive ....................................................................................................................... 51
Hard drive .......................................................................................................................... 53
Memory modules ............................................................................................................... 55
WWAN module .................................................................................................................. 57
WLAN/Bluetooth combo card ............................................................................................ 59
Keyboard ........................................................................................................................... 64
Fan ..................................................................................................................................... 67
Heat sink ............................................................................................................................ 69
Processor ........................................................................................................................... 71
Top cover ........................................................................................................................... 72
RTC battery ....................................................................................................................... 79
Modem module .................................................................................................................. 81
Audio board ....................................................................................................................... 83
Speaker assembly ............................................................................................................. 84
RJ-11 jack cable ................................................................................................................ 87
Quick Launch board ........................................................................................................... 89
USB board ......................................................................................................................... 92
System board ..................................................................................................................... 93
Card reader board ............................................................................................................. 97
Power cable ....................................................................................................................... 99
Optical drive connector .................................................................................................... 101
Display assembly ............................................................................................................. 103
5 Computer Setup (BIOS) and System Diagnostics ................................................................................... 111
Using Computer Setup ..................................................................................................................... 111
Starting Computer Setup ................................................................................................. 111
Navigating and selecting in Computer Setup ................................................................... 111
Restoring factory settings in Computer Setup ................................................................. 112
Updating the BIOS ........................................................................................................... 113
Determining the BIOS version ......................................................................... 113
Downloading a BIOS update ........................................................................... 113
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