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 .........14

Important service information.....17

Strategy for replacing FRUs .........17
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive ....18
Important notice for replacing a system board. . 18
How to use error message ........18
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV,and
GAV.................19
Product definition ...........19
FRU identification for CTO, CMV,and GAV
products ..............19
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs .............21

General checkout ..........23

What to do first .............24
Checkout guide .............25
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS ....26
PC-Doctor for Windows .........28
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery .....28
Power system checkout ..........29
Checking the AC adapter.........29
Checking operational charging .......30
Checking the battery pack ........30
Checking the backup battery .......31

Related service information......33

Restoring the factory contents by using Product
Recovery discs .............33
Passwords...............34
Power-on password ..........34
Hard-disk password ..........34
Supervisor password ..........34
How to remove the power-on password....35
How to remove the hard-disk password....35
Power management ...........37
Screen blank mode ...........37
Standby mode ............37
Hibernation mode ...........38
Symptom-to-FRU index ..........39
Numeric error codes ..........39
Error messages ............43
Beep symptoms ............44
No-beep symptoms...........44
LCD-related symptoms .........45
Intermittent problems ..........46
Undetermined problems .........46

Installing and configuring RAID ....47

Supported RAID configurations .......47
Configuring the system BIOS to enable embedded
SATARAID functionality ..........47
Creating RAID volumes ..........48
Deleting RAID volumes ..........48

ThinkPad W700 and W700ds .....49

Specifications..............49
Status indicators .............52
FRU tests ...............55
Fn key combinations ...........57
FRU replacement notices ..........60
Screw notices .............60
Retaining serial numbers .........61
Removing and replacing a FRU........64
Important notice for servicing ThinkPad W700ds 65
1010 Battery pack ...........67
1020 Digitizer pen ...........67
1030 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device ....68
1040 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover,HDD and
HDD rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and
storage converter ...........69
1050 DIMM slot cover and DIMM......72
1060 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint
reader ...............74
1070 Digitizer pen case assembly ......78
1080 Keyboard ............79
1090 Backup battery ..........81
1100Numeric keypad ..........82
1110Keyboard bezel and speaker assembly . . . 85
1120Wireless USB adapter or Intel Turbo
Memory Minicard ...........88
1130PCI Express Mini Card for wireless
LAN/WiMAX ............90
1140Intel Turbo Memory Minicard .....92
1150CPU thermal device/fan .......94
1160VGA thermal device/fan .......96
1170CPU..............98
1180Video card ............99
1190HDDI/Osubcard.........101
1200 LCD unit ............104
1210 Structure frame ..........107
1220 ODD switch sub card ........109
1230 Audio and cardreader I/O card ....110
1240 System board and base cover .....112
2010 LCD front bezel (LCD cover kit) ....117
2020 Inverter card ...........118
2030 Integrated camera .........119
2040 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) . . . 121
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