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 Rescue and Recovery .....48
FRU tests ..............49
Power system checkout ..........51
Checking the ac adapter .........51
Checking operational charging .......52
Checking the battery pack ........52
Checking the backup battery .......53
Related service information......55
Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery
Disc Set ...............55
Passwords ...............56
Power-on password ..........57
Hard-disk password ..........57
Supervisor password ..........57
How to remove the power-on password ....57
How to remove the hard-disk password ....58
Power management ...........60
Screen blank mode ...........60
Sleep (standby) mode ..........60
Hibernation mode ...........61
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
Installing and configuring RAID ....71
Supported RAID configurations .......71
Configuring the system BIOS to enable embedded
SATA RAID functionality ..........71
Creating RAID volumes ..........72
Deleting RAID volumes ..........72
Status indicators ..........73
Fn key combinations ........77
FRU replacement notices .......81
Screw notices ..............81
Retaining serial numbers ..........82
Restoring the serial number of the system unit 82
Retaining the UUID ..........82
Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 83
Removing and replacing a FRU ....85
Before servicing ThinkPad T510, T510i, and W510 86
1010 Battery pack ............87
1020 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device or travel bezel 88
1030 DIMM slot cover ...........89
1040 DIMM (bottom slot) ..........90
1050 Hard disk drive slot cover, hard disk drive
(HDD) and HDD rubber rails or Solid state drive
(SSD) and storage converter .........91
1060 Keyboard .............93
1070 DIMM (upper slot) ..........97
1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN. . . 98
1090 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN . . 101
1100 Keyboard bezel assembly........103
1110 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) ....106
1120 Backup battery ...........107
1130 Smart Card or Contactless Smart Card or
Smart Card dummy spacer .........108
1140 Speaker assembly ..........111
1150 Thermal module...........113
1160CPU...............116
1170 LCD unit .............117
1180 Base cover assembly .........121
1190I/Osubcard............124
1200 System board assembly and magnesium
structure frame .............125
2010 LCD bezel assembly .........129
2020 LED sub card ...........130
2030 Integrated camera ..........131
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