Lenovo ThinkCentre M710e Owner's manual

M710e User Guide and Hardware
Maintenance Manual
Energy Star Machine Types: 10UQ, 10UR, 10VB, and 10VC

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First Edition (February 2018)
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Contents
hapter 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Machine ty e and model label . . . . . . . . . . 6
hapter 2. Specifications . . . . . . . . 7
hapter 3. omputer locks . . . . . . . 9
Locking the com uter cover . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Attaching a Kensington-style cable lock . . . . . 10
Attaching a cable lock . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
hapter 4. Replacing hardware . . . . 11
Before re lacing hardware . . . . . . . . . . 11
Locating CRUs and FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Re lacing the vertical stand . . . . . . . . . . 14
Re lacing the ower cord . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Removing the com uter cover . . . . . . . . . 16
Re lacing the front bezel . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Re lacing the o tical drive . . . . . . . . . . 18
Re lacing the storage drive . . . . . . . . . . 20
Re lacing the card reader . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Re lacing the internal s eaker . . . . . . . . . 25
Re lacing the illuminated red dot . . . . . . . . 26
Re lacing the ower su ly assembly . . . . . . 28
Re lacing the cover resence switch . . . . . . 29
Re lacing the M.2 storage drive . . . . . . . . 30
Re lacing the coin-cell battery . . . . . . . . . 32
Re lacing a memory module. . . . . . . . . . 34
Re lacing a PCI Ex ress card . . . . . . . . . 35
Re lacing the heat sink and fan assembly . . . . 37
Re lacing the micro rocessor . . . . . . . . . 39
Re lacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . 42
Com leting the arts re lacement . . . . . . . 43
Appendix A. Notices . . . . . . . . . . 45
Appendix B. Trademarks . . . . . . . 47
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hapter 1. Overview
This cha ter rovides basic information to hel you get familiar with your com uter.
Front view
Note: Your com uter model might look slightly different from the illustration.
Figure 1. Front view
1 O tical drive eject/close button 2 O tical drive status indicator
3 Internal s eaker (o tional) 4 Storage drive status indicator
5 Card reader slot (o tional) 6 Power indicator
7 Power button 8 Micro hone connector
9 Headset connector 10 USB 3.1 Gen 1 connectors (2)
11 Illuminated red dot
1 Optical drive eject/close button
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