Lenovo ThinkCentre 8287 Owner's manual

Hardware Maintenance Manual
Types
8287 8288 8289 8296 8297
8298 8299 8326 8327 8328
8329 8340 8341 8342 8343
8344 8380 8381 8382

Hardware Maintenance Manual

Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the
information under “Notices,” on page 251.
Third Edition (May 2006)
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Contents
Chapter 1. About this manual .....1
Important Safety Information .........1
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products ................2
Product definition ...........2
FRU Identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products ...............2
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs .............3
Chapter 2. Safety information .....5
General safety ..............5
Electrical safety .............5
Safety inspection guide ...........7
Handling electrostatic discharge-sensitive devices ..8
Grounding requirements ..........8
Safety notices (multi-lingual translations) .....9
Chapter 3. General information ....39
The ThinkVantage Productivity Center program ..39
Additional information resources .......39
Physical specifications ...........39
Types 8289, 8298, 8328, 8341, 8344, and 8382 ..40
Types 8287, 8296, 8299, 8327, 8340, 8343, and 8381 41
Types 8288, 8297, 8326, 8329, 8342, and 8380 ..42
Chapter 4. General Checkout .....43
Problem determination tips .........44
Chapter 5. Diagnostics using
PC-Doctor for DOS .........47
Starting PC-Doctor from the Rescue and Recovery
workspace...............47
Starting PC-Doctor from adiagnostic diskette or
CD-ROM ...............48
Diagnostics program download........48
Navigating through the diagnostics programs ...48
Running diagnostics tests..........48
Test selection .............49
Test results .............49
Fixed disk advanced test (FDAT) ......49
Quick and Full erase -hard drive ......51
Viewing the test log ...........52
Chapter 6. Using the Setup Utility ...53
Starting the Setup Utility program.......53
Viewing and changing settings ........53
Exiting from the Setup Utility program .....53
Using passwords ............53
User Password ............54
Administrator Password .........54
Setting, changing, and deleting apassword...54
Using Security Profile by Device .......54
Selecting astartup device..........55
Selecting atemporary startup device .....55
Changing the startup device sequence ....55
Advanced settings ............55
Chapter 7. Symptom-to-FRU Index ...57
Hard disk drive boot error .........57
Power Supply Errors ...........57
Diagnostic error codes ...........59
Beep symptoms .............80
No-beep symptoms............82
POST error codes ............83
Miscellaneous error messages ........86
Undetermined problems ..........88
Chapter 8. FRU lists .........89
Machine Type 8287 ............90
Machine Type 8288 ............99
Machine Type 8289 ........... 109
Machine Type 8296 ........... 120
Machine Type 8297 ........... 130
Machine Type 8298 ........... 139
Machine Type 8299 ........... 149
Machine Type 8326 ........... 155
Machine Type 8327 ........... 162
Machine Type 8328 ........... 170
Machine Type 8329 ........... 178
Machine Type 8340 ........... 186
Machine Type 8341 ........... 192
Machine Type 8342 ........... 200
Machine Type 8343 ........... 206
Machine Type 8344 ........... 213
Machine Type 8380 ........... 220
Machine Type 8381 ........... 228
Machine Type 8382 ........... 236
Chapter 9. Additional Service
Information ............ 245
Security features ............ 245
Hardware controlled Passwords ...... 245
Operating system password ....... 245
Vital product data ........... 245
Management Information Format (MIF) ... 245
BIOS levels .............. 246
Flash update procedures.......... 246
Updating (flashing) BIOS from adiskette or
CD-ROM .............. 246
Updating (flashing) BIOS from your operating
system .............. 246
Recovering from aPOST/BIOS update failure 247
Power management ........... 248
Automatic configuration and power interface
(ACPI) BIOS............. 248
Automatic Power-On features ....... 248
Recovering software using the Rescue and
Recovery program............ 249
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