Table Of Contents - Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . v
Safety information . . . . . . . . . . 1
General safety . . . .
Electrical safety . . .
Safety inspection guide .
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic
discharge . . . . .
Grounding requirements .
Safety notices: multilingual translations .
Laser compliance statement .
Important service information . . . . . 17
Strategy for replacing FRUs .
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive .
Important notice for replacing a system board .
How to use error message
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV . . . . . . .
Product definition .
FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products . . . .
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs . . .
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . 23
What to do first . . .
Checkout guide . . .
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS
PC-Doctor for Windows .
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery .
Power system checkout .
Checking the AC adapter .
Checking operational charging .
Checking the battery pack
Checking the backup battery
Related service information . . . . . . 33
Restoring the factory contents by using Product
Recovery discs . . .
Passwords . . . . .
Power-on password
Hard-disk password
Supervisor password .
How to remove the power-on password .
How to remove the hard-disk password .
Power management .
Screen blank mode .
Standby mode . .
Hibernation mode .
Symptom-to-FRU index .
Numeric error codes .
Error messages . .
Beep symptoms . .
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No-beep symptoms .
LCD-related symptoms
Intermittent problems .
Undetermined problems .
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ThinkPad X300 . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Specifications .
Status indicators .
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FRU tests . .
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Fn key combinations .
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FRU replacement notices .
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Screw notices .
Retaining serial numbers .
Removing and replacing a FRU .
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Before servicing ThinkPad X300
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1010 Battery pack .
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1020 Second battery or travel cover (some
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1030 Solid state drive (SSD) .
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1040 DIMM .
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1050 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN .
1060 Wireless USB adapter .
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1070 Keyboard .
1080 Optical drive .
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1090 Backup battery
1100 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN
1110 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint
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reader . .
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1120 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2) .
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1130 Keyboard bezel .
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1140 Audio FPC and audio sub card .
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1150 Speaker assembly
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1160 LCD assembly .
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1170 VGA cable and DC-in connector .
. 30
1180 System board, fan, and base cover assembly 96
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2010 LCD bezel assembly .
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2020 LCD panel and LCD cable .
2030 Integrated camera .
2040 Antenna assembly .
2050 Hinge L and hinge R .
. 33 2060 LED sub card, LED cable and LCD cover
. 34 assembly . .
. 34 Locations . . .
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Front view .
. 34 Rear view .
. 35 Bottom view .
. 35 Parts list . . .
. 37 Overall . .
. 37 LCD FRUs .
. 37 Keyboard . .
. 38 Miscellaneous parts .
. 39 AC adapters .
. 39 Power cords .
. 43 Recovery discs .
. 44 Common service tools
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