Lenovo 3000 N500 - Manual (Page 5)

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
Power system checkout . . . . . . . . . . 29
Checking the AC adapter . . . . . . . . . 29
Checking operational charging . . . . . . . 29
Checking the battery pack . . . . . . . . 30
Related service information . . . . . . 31
Restoring the factory contents by using Product
Recovery discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Power-on password . . . . . . . . . . 32
Hard-disk password . . . . . . . . . . 32
Supervisor password . . . . . . . . . . 33
How to remove the hard-disk password . . . . 33
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Screen blank mode . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sleep (standby) mode . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hibernation mode . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . 36
Numeric error codes . . . . . . . . . . 36
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . 39
LCD-related symptoms . . . . . . . . . 40
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 41
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 41
Lenovo 3000 N500 . . . . . . . . . . 43
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Status indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
FRU tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Fn key combinations . . . . . . . . . . . 48
FRU replacement notices . . . . . . . . . . 49
Screw notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Retaining serial numbers . . . . . . . . . 50
Removing and replacing a FRU . . . . . . . . 53
1010 Battery pack . . . . . . . . . . . 54
1020 Dummy cards . . . . . . . . . . . 55
1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) slot cover and HDD 56
1040 Optical drive . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1050 Thermal slot cover . . . . . . . . . 59
1060 DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
1070 Fan assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 61
1080 Heat sink assembly . . . . . . . . . 63
1090 Wireless LAN card slot cover and PCI
Express Mini Card for wireless LAN . . . . . 65
1100 CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
1110 Keyboard cover and power board . . . . 68
1120 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) . . . . 70
1130 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
1140 LCD unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
1150 Keyboard bezel and LED board L . . . . 76
1160 LED board R . . . . . . . . . . . 79
1170 System board and ExpressCard slot
assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
1180 Speakers and base cover . . . . . . . 84
2010 LCD front bezel . . . . . . . . . . 86
2020 Inverter card . . . . . . . . . . . 87
2030 Integrated camera . . . . . . . . . 88
2040 LCD panel, LCD cable, and hinges . . . . 89
2050 Antenna assembly and LCD cover . . . . 92
Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Bottom view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Parts list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
LCD FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Miscellaneous parts . . . . . . . . . . 104
AC adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Recovery discs . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Common service tools . . . . . . . . . 111
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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