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
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
Important notice for servicing ThinkPad W700ds . . 86
1010 Battery pack ............88
1020 Digitizer pen ............89
1030 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device .....90
1040 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover, HDD and HDD
rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and storage
converter ...............91
1050 DIMM slot cover and DIMM .......94
1060 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader 96
1070 Digitizer pen case assembly .......100
1080 Keyboard .............101
1090 Backup battery ...........103
1100 Numeric keypad ..........104
1110 Keyboard bezel and speaker assembly . . . 107
1120 Wireless USB adapter or Intel Turbo Memory
Minicard ...............110
1130 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless
LAN/WiMAX .............112
1140 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard ......114
1150 CPU thermal device/fan ........116
1160 VGA thermal device/fan ........118
1170CPU...............120
1180 Video card ............121
1190HDDI/Osubcard..........123
1200 LCD unit .............126
1210 Structure frame ...........129
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