Table Of Contents - Lenovo ThinkPad T500 2055 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 T500 and W500 . . . . . . . 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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1010 Battery pack .
. 18
1020 Serial Ultrabay Slim device .
. 18
1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover, HDD and
. 18
HDD rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and
storage converter
. 19
1040 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint
. 19
reader . .
1050 DIMM .
. 19
1060 Keyboard .
1070 Modem daughter card (MDC-3.0) .
. 21
1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN .
1090 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard or Wireless
USB adapter .
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1100 Backup battery
. 25
1110 SIM card slot .
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1120 Keyboard bezel .
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1130 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN
. 28
1140 Speaker assembly
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1150 Fan assembly .
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1160 CPU .
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1170 LCD unit
. 30
1180 Base cover and USB sub card with cable .
. 31
1190 Structure frame .
1200 System board and ExpressCard slot
assembly . .
2010 LCD front bezel (LCD cover kit) .
. 33 2020 LCD rear cover (LCD cover kit)
. 34 2030 Inverter card or LED control card .
. 34 2040 Integrated camera .
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2050 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1)
. 34 2060 Antenna assembly .
. 35 2070 LCD panel and LCD cable .
. 35 2080 Hinges and LCD magnesium frame .
. 37 Locations . . .
. 37 Front view .
. 37 Rear view .
. 38 Bottom view .
. 39 Parts list . . .
. 39 Overall . .
. 43 LCD FRUs .
. 44 Keyboard . .
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