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Contents
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About this manual
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Safety information
General safety
Electrical safety
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Safety inspection guide
Grounding requirements
Safety notice
Safety notices multilingual translations
Safety notice
Safety notice
Safety notice
Safety notice
Safety notice
Safety notice
Laser compliance statement
Safety information
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Select Downloads and drivers
Before replacing parts
Strategy for replacing FRUs
Important notice for replacing a system board
How to use error message
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive
FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV products
Dynamic Configure To Order CTO
Using eSupport
Important information about replacing RoHS compliant FRUs
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General checkout
What to do first
Following are not covered under warranty
Checkout guide
Testing the computer
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS
Diagnostics Interactive Tests
Utility
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery
PC-Doctor for Windows
Hardware Info
Pin Voltage V dc
Power system checkout
Checking the AC adapter
Terminal Voltage V dc
Checking the battery pack
Checking operational charging
Wire Voltage V dc
Checking the backup battery
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Service Web site
Related service information
Power-on password
Passwords
How to remove the power-on password
Hard-disk password
Supervisor password
Select Master HDP
How to remove the hard-disk password
Select Power-On Password
Standby mode
Power management
Screen blank mode
Hibernation mode
Numeric error codes
Symptom-to-FRU index
Installed or press Esc to ignore
0190 Charge the battery pack
0191 Run Bios Setup Utility, and then save
0199 Run Bios Setup Utility, and then save
0271 Run Bios Setup Utility to reset the time
0252 Reset the password by running Bios Setup
0260 Charge the backup battery for more
0270 Charge the backup battery for more
Run Diagnostics --ThinkPad Devices
1820 Remove all but the reader that you set up
For the authentication
1830 Install Dimm in Slot-0, but not in Slot-1
Error messages
No-beep symptoms
Beep symptoms
LCD-related symptoms
Undetermined problems
Intermittent problems
Feature Description
Specifications
Bluetooth wireless
Status indicators
Blinking orange slow
Indicator Meaning
Blinking green
Orange
FRU tests
Interactive Tests --Mouse
Run Diagnostics --ThinkPad Devices --Fan
Key combination Description
Fn key combinations
Key combination Description
Logic card to plastic
FRU replacement notices
Screw notices
Plastic to plastic
Select 2. Read S/N data from Eeprom
Retaining serial numbers
Reading or writing the ECA information
Removing and replacing a FRU
Removing the SIM card
Before servicing ThinkPad
Battery pack
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Second battery or travel cover some models
Solid state drive SSD
Removal steps of SSD
Dimm
Removal steps of Dimm
PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN
M2 × 3 mm, small-head, nylon-coated Silver 167 Nm Kgfcm
When installing
Wireless USB adapter
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Removal steps of wireless USB adapter
Keyboard
Removal steps of keyboard
When installing the keyboard, do as follows
Installation of the keyboard
Optical drive
Backup battery
Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Removal steps of palm rest
Bluetooth daughter card BDC-2
Keyboard bezel
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Pull the cables out from the cable guide hole
Audio FPC and audio sub card
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Speaker assembly
LCD assembly
M2 × 3 mm, small-head, nylon-coated Silver 167 Nm Kgfcm
When installing
VGA cable and DC-in connector
Removal steps of VGA cable and DC-in connector
Important notices for handling the system board
System board, fan, and base cover assembly
CPU
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Application of the thermal grease
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Step Screw cap Screw quantity Color Torque
LCD bezel assembly
Important notice on handling the LCD panel
LCD panel and LCD cable
Removal steps of LCD panel and LCD cable
Step Screw quantity Color Torque
Removal steps of LCD panel and LCD cable
Integrated camera
Antenna assembly
Removal steps of antenna assembly
Removal steps of antenna assembly
M2 × 3 mm, small-head Silver 167 Nm Nylon-coated Kgfcm
Hinge L and hinge R
Removal steps of hinge L and hinge R
LED sub card, LED cable and LCD cover assembly
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Locations Front view
Bottom view
Rear view
External CRUs with latches
Parts list
Internal CRUs located behind an access panel
External CRUs pluggable
FRU no RoHS
Overall
FRU
FRU
FRU
FRU
Inch WXGA+ TFT
LCD FRUs
Language RoHS
LED sub card 42W7898
Miscellaneous parts
FRU
Astec
AC adapters
Longwell Volex
Power cords
Region RoHS
Windows XP Professional DVDs
Recovery discs
Windows Vista Business 32 bit DVDs
Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit DVDs
Tool
Common service tools
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