Lenovo ThinkCentre M57p - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
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Chapter 1. Important safety information 1
Chapter 2. Overview . . . . . . . . . 3
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 3
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . 4
Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Locating controls and connectors on the front of
your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Locating connectors on the rear of your computer 6
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . 8
Identifying parts on the system board . . . . . 9
Chapter 3. Installing options and
replacing hardware . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing external options . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing internal options . . . . . . . . . 12
Opening the cover . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Accessing system board components and drives 13
Installing adapter cards . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing internal drives . . . . . . . . . 14
Erasing a lost or forgotten password (clearing
CMOS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Replacing the power supply assembly . . . . . 24
Replacing the heat sink . . . . . . . . . . 26
Replacing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . 28
Replacing an optical drive . . . . . . . . . 30
Replacing the diskette drive . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing or replacing a memory module . . . . 33
Replacing an adapter card . . . . . . . . . 35
Replacing the fan assembly . . . . . . . . . 36
Replacing the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . 38
Replacing the mouse . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 4. Completing the parts
replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Updating (flashing) BIOS from a diskette or
CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . 43
Obtaining device drivers . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 5. Security features . . . . . 45
Integrated cable lock . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Password protection . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Appendix. Notices . . . . . . . . . . 47
Television output notice . . . . . . . . . . 48
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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