Lenovo THINKCENTRE 8177 - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . 1
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . 1
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Product definition . . . . . . . . . . . 2
FRU Identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2. Safety information . . . . . 5
General safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Safety inspection guide . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive devices . . 8
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . 8
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) . . . . . 9
Chapter 3. General information . . . . 41
The Access IBM program . . . . . . . . . . 41
Additional information resources . . . . . . . 41
Physical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Types 8126, 8174, 8175, and 8176 . . . . . . 42
Types 8149, 8177, and 8178 . . . . . . . . 43
Types 8084, 8085, 8147, 8148, and 8179 . . . . 44
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 45
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 5. Diagnostics using
PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . 49
Starting PC-Doctor from the Rescue and Recovery
workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Starting PC-Doctor from a diagnostic diskette or
CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Diagnostics program download . . . . . . . . 50
Navigating through the diagnostics programs . . . 50
Running diagnostics tests . . . . . . . . . . 50
Test selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Fixed disk advanced test (FDAT) . . . . . . 51
Quick and Full erase - hard drive . . . . . . 53
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility . . . 55
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 55
Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 55
Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 55
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Password considerations . . . . . . . . . 56
User Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 56
IDE Drive User Password . . . . . . . . 56
IDE Drive Master Password . . . . . . . . 56
Setting, changing, and deleting a password . . . 57
Using Security Profile by Device . . . . . . . 57
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 58
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . . 58
Changing the startup device sequence . . . . 58
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . . 59
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . 59
Power Supply Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Diagnostic error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
No-beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Miscellaneous error messages . . . . . . . . 88
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 8. Replacing FRUs (Types
8126, 8174, 8175, and 8176) . . . . . . 91
Locating connectors on the front . . . . . . . 91
Locating the connectors on the rear . . . . . . 92
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Identifying parts on the system board . . . . . 95
Removing and replacing memory . . . . . . . 96
Removing and replacing a PCI adapter . . . . . 96
Removing and replacing the battery . . . . . . 97
Removing and replacing the power supply . . . . 98
Removing and replacing the system board . . . . 99
Removing and replacing the microprocessor . . . 99
Removing and replacing drives . . . . . . . 101
Closing the cover and connecting cables . . . . 104
Chapter 9. Replacing FRUs (Types
8149, 8177, and 8178) . . . . . . . . 105
Locating connectors on the front . . . . . . . 105
Locating connectors on the rear . . . . . . . 106
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Identifying parts on the system board . . . . . 108
Removing and replacing memory . . . . . . 109
Removing and replacing a PCI adapter . . . . . 110
Removing and replacing the battery . . . . . . 110
Removing and replacing the power supply . . . 111
Removing and replacing the system board . . . . 112
Removing and replacing the microprocessor . . . 113
Removing and replacing drives . . . . . . . 114
Installing the cover and connecting cables . . . . 116
Chapter 10. Replacing FRUs (Types
8084, 8085, 8147, 8148, and 8179 . . . 119
Locating connectors on the front . . . . . . . 120
Locating the connectors on the rear . . . . . . 121
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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