Lenovo 3980 - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . 1
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . 1
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Chapter 2. Safety information . . . . . 3
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Voltage-selection switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive
devices
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) . . . . . 6
Chapter 3. General information. . . . 29
Online Books folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools . . . . . . . . . 29
ThinkVantage Productivity Center . . . . . . . 29
Lenovo Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Access Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 30
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 4. General checkout . . . . . 33
Checking for power problems. . . . . . . . . 33
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 37
Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox . . . . . . . . 37
Lenovo System Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . 37
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . . . 38
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Creating a diagnostic disc . . . . . . . . 38
Running the diagnostic program from a
diagnostic disc . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38
Navigating through the diagnostics
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
39
Running tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility . . 41
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 41
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 41
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Password considerations . . . . . . . . . 41
Set User Password . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Change Supervisor Password . . . . . . . 42
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 42
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 43
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 43
Selecting or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
43
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 43
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU index . 45
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . . 45
Diagnostic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 62
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Chapter 8. Replacing FRUs. . . . . . 65
Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Locating connectors on the front of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
65
Locating connectors on the rear of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
65
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . 66
Locating parts on the system board . . . . 67
Removing the computer cover . . . . . . . . 68
Removing and reinstalling the front bezel . . . . 69
Installing or replacing a memory module . . . . 70
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Replacing the hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . 73
Replacing the optical drive . . . . . . . . . . 74
Replacing the heat sink . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Replacing the system fan assembly . . . . . . 77
Replacing the microprocessor . . . . . . . . 79
Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . 82
Replacing the ac power adapter . . . . . . . . 83
Completing the parts replacement . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 9. FRU lists . . . . . . . . . 87
Machine Type 3425 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Machine Type 3980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Machine Type 5214 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Machine Type 5354 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 10. Additional service
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
99
Security features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Hardware controlled passwords . . . . . . 99
Operating system password . . . . . . . 99
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