Lenovo X301 - 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 (multilingual
translations) .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Important service information . . . . . 39
Strategy for replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . 39
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive . . . . 40
Important notice for replacing a system board . . 40
How to use error message . . . . . . . . 40
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Product definition . . . . . . . . . . . 41
FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . 43
What to do first . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Checkout guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . 45
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox (Lenovo System
Toolbox)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
PC-Doctor for Windows . . . . . . . . . 48
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . . 49
FRU tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Power system checkout . . . . . . . . . . 52
Checking the AC adapter . . . . . . . . . 52
Checking operational charging . . . . . . . 52
Checking the battery pack . . . . . . . . 53
Checking the backup battery . . . . . . . 53
Related service information . . . . . . 55
Restoring the factory contents by using Product
Recovery discs .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery
Disc Set
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Power-on password . . . . . . . . . . 57
Hard-disk password . . . . . . . . . . 57
Supervisor password . . . . . . . . . . 58
How to remove the power-on password . . . . 58
How to remove the hard-disk password . . . . 59
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Screen blank mode . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Sleep (Standby) mode . . . . . . . . . . 60
Hibernation mode . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . 62
Numeric error codes . . . . . . . . . . 62
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . 67
LCD-related symptoms . . . . . . . . . 68
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 69
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 69
Status indicators . . . . . . . . . . 71
Fn key combinations . . . . . . . . 73
FRU replacement notices . . . . . . . 77
Screw notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Retaining serial numbers . . . . . . . . . . 78
Restoring the serial number of the system unit 78
Retaining the UUID . . . . . . . . . . 78
Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 79
Removing and replacing a FRU . . . . 81
Before servicing ThinkPad X301 . . . . . . . 82
1010 Battery pack . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
1020 Optical drive or second battery or travel cover 84
1030 Solid state drive (SSD) or hard disk drive
(HDD) .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
1040 DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
1050 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN . . . 89
1060 Wireless USB adapter or Intel Turbo Memory
Minicard .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
1070 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
1080 Backup battery . . . . . . . . . . . 99
1090 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN . . 100
1100 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader 102
1110 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2) .
. . . . 104
1120 Keyboard bezel . . . . . . . . . . . 105
1130 Audio FPC and audio sub card. . . . . . 108
1140 Speaker assembly . . . . . . . . . . 110
1150 LCD assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 111
1160 VGA cable and DC-in connector . . . . . 114
1170 System board, fan, and base cover assembly 116
2010 LCD bezel assembly . . . . . . . . . 122
2020 LCD panel and LCD cable . . . . . . . 123
2030 Integrated camera . . . . . . . . . . 127
2040 Antenna assembly . . . . . . . . . . 128
2050 Hinge L and hinge R . . . . . . . . . 131
2060 LED sub card, LED cable and LCD cover
assembly .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Bottom view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
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