Table Of Contents - Lenovo ThinkStation 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
Lenovo Welcome Center .
Additional information resources .
Specifications . . . .
Chapter 4. General Checkout . . . . . 43
Problem determination tips .
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 45
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools .
PC-Doctor for Windows PE .
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace .
PC-Doctor for DOS . .
Creating a diagnostic CD/DVD image .
Running diagnostics from the disc .
Running diagnostics from the Rescue and
Recovery workspace .
Navigating through the diagnostics programs .
Running tests. . .
Viewing the test log
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility . . . 51
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 53
Advanced settings . .
Exiting from the Setup Utility program .
Chapter 7. Installing hard disk drives
and configuring RAID (types 4105,
4157, 4217) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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Installing SATA hard disk drives and configuring
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Installing SATA hard disk drives .
Configuring the system BIOS to enable SATA
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RAID functionality .
Creating RAID volumes .
Deleting RAID volumes .
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Installing SAS hard disk drives and configuring
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RAID . . .
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Installing SAS hard disk drives .
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Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to configure
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SAS RAID .
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Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
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SAS RAID 0, 1, or 5 functionality .
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
optional hot spare hard disk drive .
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Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
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optional hot spare hard disk drive .
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Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
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Chapter 8. Installing hard disk drives
and configuring RAID (types: 4155,
4158, 4218) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives and
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configuring RAID .
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives .
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Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to configure
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SATA or SAS RAID .
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Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
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SATA or SAS RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10 functionality .
Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
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optional hot spare hard disk drive .
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Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
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optional hot spare hard disk drive .
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Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete an
array . .
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Chapter 9. Symptom-to-FRU Index . . . 65
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Hard disk drive boot error .
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Power Supply Problems .
. 52
Diagnostic error codes .
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Beep symptoms .
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POST error codes .
. 52
Miscellaneous error messages .
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Undetermined problems .
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Chapter 10. Replacing FRUs (Type
4105, 4157, 4217) . . . . . . . . . . 93
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Locating controls and connectors on the front of
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Rear connectors .
Removing the cover
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