
Contents
Chapter 1. Important sa ety
in ormation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
General sa ety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Electrical sa ety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Sa ety inspection guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Sa ety notices (multi-lingual translations) . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2. Important service
in ormation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Strategy or replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . . 27
Strategy or replacing a hard disk drive or a
solid-state drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Important notice or replacing a system
board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
How to use error codes . . . . . . . . . . 28
Strategy or replacing FRUs or CTO, special-bid,
and standard models. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Product de inition . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
FRU identi ication . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 3. Product overview . . . . . 29
Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4. Service checkout and
symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . 33
Service checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Problem determination tips . . . . . . . . 33
Symptom-to-FRU index . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hard disk drive boot error . . . . . . . . . 34
Power supply problems . . . . . . . . . . 35
Beep symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Miscellaneous error conditions . . . . . . . 37
Undetermined problems . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 5. RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
What is RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Select RAID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Con igure RAID with RAIDXpert2 Con iguration
Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 6. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 45
Basic procedure or resolving computer
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
UEFI diagnostic program . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Lenovo diagnostic tools . . . . . . . . . . . 46
The Vantage app . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Sel -help resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 7. Hardware removal and
installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . 49
Service tool kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Major FRUs and CRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
System board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Internal storage drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Removing and installing hardware . . . . . . . 57
External options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
ID badge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Computer cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Serial COM cable . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Device in the lex bay . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Storage drive in the ront-access storage
enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Device in the multi-drive conversion kit . . . . 68
Device in the lex module . . . . . . . . . 73
Front panel I/O cage . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Cover presence switch . . . . . . . . . . 78
Front an assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Storage drive in a storage drive bay . . . . . 80
Storage drive cage . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
M.2 solid-state drive . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Power supply assembly . . . . . . . . . . 92
PCIe card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Full-length PCIe card . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Rear an assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Memory module active cooler and duct. . . . 100
Memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Coin-cell battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Wi-Fi units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Heat-sink-and- an assembly . . . . . . . . 106
Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
System board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Appendix A. Notices and
trademarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
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