Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual .....1
Important Safety Information .........1
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs .............2
Chapter 2. Safety information .....3
General safety ..............3
Electrical safety .............3
Voltage-selection switch...........5
Safety inspection guide ...........5
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive devices . . 6
Grounding requirements ..........7
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) .....7
Chapter 3. General information ....39
Lenovo Welcome Center ..........39
Additional information resources .......39
Specifications ..............40
Chapter 4. General Checkout .....43
Problem determination tips .........43
Chapter 5. Diagnostics ........45
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools .........45
PC-Doctor for Windows PE .........45
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace ..........45
PC-Doctor for DOS ............46
Creating a diagnostic CD/DVD image ....46
Running diagnostics from the disc......46
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace ..........47
Navigating through the diagnostics programs . . 47
Running tests.............47
Viewing the test log ..........49
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility . . . 51
Starting the Setup Utility program.......51
Viewing and changing settings ........51
Using passwords ............51
Password considerations .........52
User Password ............52
Administrator Password .........52
Setting, changing, and deleting a password. . . 52
Enabling or disabling a device ........52
Selecting a startup device..........53
Selecting a temporary startup device .....53
Selecting or changing the startup device sequence 53
Advanced settings ............54
Exiting from the Setup Utility program .....54
Chapter 7. Installing hard disk drives
and configuring RAID (types 4105,
4157, 4217) .............55
Installing SATA hard disk drives and configuring
RAID ................55
Installing SATA hard disk drives ......55
Configuring the system BIOS to enable SATA
RAID functionality ...........55
Creating RAID volumes .........56
Deleting RAID volumes .........56
Installing SAS hard disk drives and configuring
RAID ................57
Installing SAS hard disk drives .......57
Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to configure
SAS RAID ..............57
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
SAS RAID 0, 1, or 5 functionality ......57
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
optional hot spare hard disk drive......58
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
optional hot spare hard disk drive......58
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
array ...............58
Chapter 8. Installing hard disk drives
and configuring RAID (types: 4155,
4158, 4218) .............61
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives and
configuring RAID ............61
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives....61
Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to configure
SATA or SAS RAID...........61
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
SATA or SAS RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10 functionality . . 62
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
optional hot spare hard disk drive......62
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
optional hot spare hard disk drive......62
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
array ...............63
Chapter 9. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . . 65
Hard disk drive boot error .........65
Power Supply Problems ..........65
Diagnostic error codes ...........66
Beep symptoms .............87
POST error codes ............88
Miscellaneous error messages ........90
Undetermined problems ..........91
Chapter 10. Replacing FRUs (Type
4105, 4157, 4217) ..........93
Locating controls and connectors on the front of
your computer .............94
Rear connectors .............95
Removing the cover ...........96
Locations ...............97
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