Contents

About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . iii

Chapter 1. Safety information . . . . . 1

General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Safety notices (multilingual translations) . . . . . . 4

Laser compliance statement (multilingual

translations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 2. Important service

 

information

25

Strategy for replacing FRUs

25

Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive or solid

 

state drive

26

Important notice for replacing a system

 

board

26

How to use error message

26

Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and

 

GAV

26

Product definition

26

FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV

 

products

27

Chapter 3. General checkout

29

What to do first

29

Checkout guide

30

Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS. . . .

30

Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox (Lenovo System

 

Toolbox)

33

PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . .

34

FRU tests

34

Power system checkout

35

Checking the ac adapter

35

Checking operational charging

36

Checking the battery pack

36

Checking the backup battery

37

Chapter 4. Related service

 

information

39

Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery

 

Disc Set

39

Passwords

40

Power-on password

40

Hard-disk password

40

Supervisor password

41

How to remove the power-on password . . .

41

How to remove the hard-disk password . . .

41

Power management

42

Screen blank mode

42

Sleep (standby) mode

42

Hibernation mode

43

Symptom-to-FRU index

43

Numeric error codes

44

Error messages

48

Beep symptoms

49

No-beep symptoms

50

LCD-related symptoms

50

Intermittent problems

50

Undetermined problems

51

Chapter 5. Installing and configuring

 

RAID

53

Supported RAID configurations

53

Configuring the system BIOS to enable embedded

 

SATA RAID functionality

53

Creating RAID volumes

53

Deleting RAID volumes

54

Chapter 6. Status indicators

55

Chapter 7. Fn key combinations . . .

59

Chapter 8. FRU replacement

 

notices

63

Screw notices

63

Retaining serial numbers

64

Restoring the serial number of the system

 

unit

64

Retaining the UUID

65

Reading or writing the ECA information . . .

65

Chapter 9. Removing and replacing a

 

FRU

67

Before servicing ThinkPad T510, T510i, and

 

W510

68

1010 Battery pack

68

1020 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device or travel

 

bezel

69

1030 DIMM slot cover

70

1040 DIMM (bottom slot)

70

1050 Hard disk drive slot cover, hard disk drive and

 

HDD rubber rails or solid state drive and storage

 

converter

71

1060 Keyboard

73

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