Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Tablet - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Safety information . . . . . . 1
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic
discharge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Safety notices (multilingual translations) . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2. Important service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17
Strategy for replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . 17
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive, a
solid-state drive, or an mSATA solid-state
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
Chapter 3. General checkout . . . . . 21
What to do first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Checkout guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . 22
Quick test programs. . . . . . . . . . . 22
UEFI diagnostic program . . . . . . . . . 23
Bootable diagnostic programs. . . . . . . 23
Power system checkout . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Checking the ac power adapter . . . . . . 24
Checking operational charging . . . . . . 25
Checking the battery pack . . . . . . . . 25
Checking the backup battery . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 4. Related service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27
Restoring the factory contents by using the
Recovery Disc Set . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27
Using the Windows recovery programs on the
Windows 8 operating system . . . . . . . . .
28
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Power-on password . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Hard disk password . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Supervisor password . . . . . . . . . . 31
How to remove the power-on password . . . 31
How to remove the hard disk password . . . 32
Power management . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Screen blank mode (for the Windows 7
operating system only) . . . . . . . . . .
32
Sleep mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Hibernation mode . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Numeric error codes . . . . . . . . . . 34
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . 40
LCD-related symptoms . . . . . . . . . 40
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . 41
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 5. Status indicators . . . . . 43
Chapter 6. Fn key combinations . . . 47
Chapter 7. Locations . . . . . . . . . 49
Locating computer controls, connectors, and
indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
49
Front view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Bottom view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Locating FRUs and CRUs . . . . . . . . . . 50
Major FRUs and CRUs. . . . . . . . . . 52
LCD FRUs and CRUs . . . . . . . . . . 54
Miscellaneous kits and other FRUs . . . . . 55
Looking up FRU information . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 8. FRU replacement
notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
57
Screw notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Retaining serial numbers. . . . . . . . . . . 58
Restoring the serial number of the system
unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
58
Retaining the UUID . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Reading or writing the ECA information . . . 59
Chapter 9. Removing or replacing a
FRU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
61
General guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Before servicing the computer . . . . . . . . 62
Removing the SIM card . . . . . . . . . 62
1010 Tablet Digitizer Pen. . . . . . . . . . . 62
1020 Battery pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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