Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual | . | 1 |
Important Safety Information | . | 1 |
Chapter 2. Safety information | . | 3 |
General safety | . | 3 |
Electrical safety | . | 3 |
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Safety inspection guide | . | 5 |
Handling electrostatic |
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devices | . | 6 |
Grounding requirements | . | 6 |
Safety notices | . | 6 |
Chapter 3. General information . . . . |
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Specifications |
| 29 |
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools |
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Lenovo Solution Center |
| 30 |
Lenovo Welcome |
| 30 |
Product Recovery |
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SimpleTap |
| 30 |
ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery |
| 30 |
Additional information resources |
| 31 |
Chapter 4. General Checkout |
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Problem determination tips |
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Chapter 5. Diagnostics |
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Lenovo Solution Center |
| 35 |
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility |
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program |
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Starting the Setup Utility program |
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Viewing and changing settings |
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Using passwords |
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Password considerations |
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Administrator Password |
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Hard Disk Password |
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Setting, changing, and deleting a password . |
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Erasing lost or forgotten passwords (clearing |
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CMOS) |
| 39 |
Enabling or disabling a device |
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Selecting a startup device |
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Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . |
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Selecting or changing the startup device |
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sequence |
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Enabling ErP compliance mode and Deep Sx . . |
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Exiting the Setup Utility program |
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Chapter 7. Configuring RAID | 43 |
Configuring RAID with Intel RSTe | 43 |
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives . . . | 43 |
Configuring SATA or SAS RAID functionality |
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with the Intel RSTe configuration utility . . . | 44 |
Quick RAID setup using the LSI MegaRAID BIOS |
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configuration utility | 45 |
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives . . . | 46 |
Entering the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration |
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utility | 47 |
Creating RAID volumes using the LSI |
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MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility . . . . | 47 |
Deleting RAID volumes using the LSI |
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MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility . . . . | 48 |
Setting the hot spare hard disk drive . . . . | 48 |
Chapter 8. | 49 |
Hard disk drive boot error | 49 |
Power Supply Problems | 49 |
Beep symptoms | 49 |
POST error codes | 50 |
Miscellaneous error messages | 51 |
Undetermined problems | 53 |
Chapter 9. Locations | 55 |
Locating connectors, controls, and indicators on |
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the front of your computer | 55 |
Locating connectors on the rear of your |
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computer | 56 |
Locating major FRUs and CRUs | 56 |
Looking up FRU information | 58 |
Locating parts on the system board | 58 |
Locating internal drives | 61 |
Chapter 10. Replacing FRUs | 63 |
Installing or replacing hardware | 63 |
Handling | 63 |
Installing external options | 63 |
Removing the computer cover | 64 |
Removing and reinstalling the front bezel . . | 65 |
Installing or replacing a PCI card | 66 |
Installing or replacing a memory module . . . | 69 |
Installing or replacing the optical drive . . . | 72 |
Replacing the card reader | 75 |
Replacing the battery | 77 |
Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly . . | 78 |
Replacing the hard disk drive fan assembly . | 80 |
Replacing the rear fan assembly | 81 |
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