Lenovo THINKCENTRE 6396 - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . 1
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . 1
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 2. Safety information . . . . . 3
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive devices . . 6
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . 6
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) . . . . . 7
Chapter 3. General information . . . . 37
The ThinkVantage Productivity Center program . . 37
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 37
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 39
Checking for power problems . . . . . . . . 39
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 43
PC-Doctor for Windows . . . . . . . . . . 43
PC-Doctor for Windows PE . . . . . . . . . 43
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace . . . . . . . . . . 43
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Creating a diagnostic CD image . . . . . . 44
Creating diagnostic diskettes . . . . . . . 44
Running diagnostics from the CD or diskettes . . 45
Navigating through the diagnostics programs . . 45
Running tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility . . . 49
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 49
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 49
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Password considerations . . . . . . . . . 49
User Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . . . 50
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 50
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . . 50
Selecting or changing the startup device sequence 51
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 51
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . . 53
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . 53
Diagnostic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 77
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . 78
Chapter 8. Replacing FRUs . . . . . . 79
Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Connectors on the front of the computer . . . . 80
Connectors on the rear of the computer . . . . 81
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . 82
System board locations . . . . . . . . . 83
Opening the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Replacing the CMOS battery . . . . . . . . . 85
Replacing the microprocessor . . . . . . . . 86
Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . 89
Replacing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . 90
Replacing an optical drive . . . . . . . . . 92
Replacing a memory module . . . . . . . . 94
Replacing the modem . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Replacing the Express card assembly . . . . . . 97
Replacing the Media Card Reader . . . . . . . 99
Replacing the system fan assembly . . . . . . 101
Completing the FRU replacement . . . . . . 103
Chapter 9. FRU lists . . . . . . . . 105
Machine Type 6416 . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Machine Type 6417 . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Machine Type 6418 . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Machine Type 6449 . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Machine Type 6453 . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Machine Type 6495 . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 10. Additional Service
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Security features . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Hardware controlled Passwords . . . . . . 151
Operating system password . . . . . . . 151
Vital product data . . . . . . . . . . . 151
BIOS levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Updating (flashing) BIOS from a CD-ROM or
diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . 152
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Automatic configuration and power interface
(ACPI) BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Automatic Power-On features . . . . . . . 153
Appendix. Notices . . . . . . . . . 155
Television output notice . . . . . . . . . . 156
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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