Document Outline

• Contents
• About this manual
• Safety information
  • General safety
  • Electrical safety
  • Safety inspection guide
  • Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge
  • Grounding requirements
  • Safety notices: multilingual translations
  • Laser compliance statement
• Important service information
  • Strategy for replacing FRUs
    • Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive
    • Important notice for replacing a system board
    • How to use error message
  • Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and GAV
    • Product definition
    • FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV products
  • Important information about replacing RoHS compliant FRUs
• General checkout
  • What to do first
  • Checkout guide
    • Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS
      • Creating the PC-Doctor diagnostics diskette
      • Testing the computer
      • Detecting system information with PC-Doctor
    • PC-Doctor for Windows
  • Power system checkout
    • Checking the AC adapter
    • Checking operational charging
    • Checking the battery pack
• Related service information
  • Restoring the factory contents by using Product Recovery discs
  • Passwords
    • Power-on password
    • Hard-disk password
    • Supervisor password
    • How to remove the hard-disk password
  • Power management
    • Screen blank mode
    • Sleep (standby) mode
    • Hibernation mode
  • Symptom-to-FRU index
    • Numeric error codes
    • Error messages
    • No-beep symptoms
    • LCD-related symptoms
    • Intermittent problems
    • Undetermined problems
• Lenovo 3000 N500
  • Specifications
  • Status indicators
  • FRU tests
  • Fn key combinations
  • FRU replacement notices
    • Screw notices
    • Retaining serial numbers
      • Restoring the serial number of the system unit
      • Retaining the UUID
      • Reading or writing the ECA information
  • Removing and replacing a FRU
    • 1010 Battery pack
    • 1020 Dummy cards
    • 1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) slot cover and HDD
    • 1040 Optical drive
    • 1050 Thermal slot cover
    • 1060 DIMM
    • 1070 Fan assembly
    • 1080 Heat sink assembly
    • 1090 Wireless LAN card slot cover and PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN
    • 1100 CPU
    • 1110 Keyboard cover and power board
    • 1120 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1)
    • 1130 Keyboard
    • 1140 LCD unit
    • 1150 Keyboard bezel and LED board L
    • 1160 LED board R
    • 1170 System board and ExpressCard slot assembly
    • 1180 Speakers and base cover
    • 2010 LCD front bezel
    • 2020 Inverter card
    • 2030 Integrated camera
    • 2040 LCD panel, LCD cable, and hinges
    • 2050 Antenna assembly and LCD cover
  • Locations
    • Front view
    • Rear view
    • Bottom view
  • Parts list
    • Overall
    • LCD FRUs
      • 15.4-in. WXGA TFT
    • Keyboard
    • Miscellaneous parts
    • AC adapters
    • Power cords
    • Recovery discs
      • Windows XP Professional DVDs
      • Windows Vista Home Basic (32 bit) DVDs
      • Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) DVDs
      • Windows Vista Business (32 bit) DVDs
    • Common service tools
• Notices
  • Trademarks