Table Of Contents - Lenovo ThinkCentre A57e Hardware Maintenance Manual

Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual . . . . . 1
Important Safety Information .
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs . . .
Chapter 2. Safety information . . . . . 3
General safety . . . .
Electrical safety . . .
Voltage-selection switch .
Safety inspection guide .
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive devices .
Grounding requirements .
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) .
Chapter 3. General information . . . . 39
The ThinkVantage Productivity Center program .
Additional information resources .
Specifications . . . .
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 41
Problem determination tips .
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 43
PC-Doctor for Windows .
PC-Doctor for Windows PE .
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace .
PC-Doctor for DOS . .
Creating a diagnostic CD image
Running diagnostics from the CD or diskettes .
Navigating through the diagnostics programs .
Running tests . . .
Viewing the test log
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility . . . 49
Starting the Setup Utility program .
Viewing and changing settings .
Using passwords . .
Password considerations .
User Password . .
Administrator Password .
Setting, changing, and deleting a password .
Enabling or disabling a device .
Selecting a startup device .
Selecting a temporary startup device .
Selecting or changing the startup device sequence 51
Exiting from the Setup Utility program .
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . . 53
Hard disk drive boot error .
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Power Supply Problems .
Diagnostic error codes .
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Beep symptoms .
POST error codes .
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Miscellaneous error messages .
Undetermined problems .
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Chapter 8. Replacing FRUs (Type 6306) 81
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Locating controls and connectors on the front of
. 5
your computer .
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Rear connectors .
. 6
Opening the cover .
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Locations . .
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Locating parts on the system board .
Removing and replacing the front bezel .
Replacing the power supply .
. 39
Replacing the system board .
. 39
Replacing a memory module
. 40
Replacing a PCI adapter card .
Replacing the hard disk drive .
Replacing an optical drive
. 41
Replacing the diskette drive .
Replacing the rear fan assembly
Replacing the front fan assembly .
. 43 Replacing the front audio/USB assembly .
. 43 Replacing the power switch/LED assembly .
Replacing the CMOS battery .
. 44 Completing the FRU replacement
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Chapter 9. FRU lists . . . . . . . . 105
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Machine Type 6306
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Chapter 10. Additional Service
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Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Security features .
Hardware controlled Passwords .
. 49
Operating system password
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Vital product data .
. 49
BIOS levels . .
. 49
Flash update procedures .
. 50
Updating (flashing) BIOS from a diskette .
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Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure
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Power management .
. 50
Automatic configuration and power interface
. 51
(ACPI) BIOS .
. 51
Automatic Power-On features .
. 52
Appendix. Notices . . . . . . . . . 119
Television output notice .
Trademarks . .
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