Lenovo ThinkCentre M710e Owner's manual

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

Note: Before using this information and the roduct it su orts, be sure to read and understand the
Important Product Information Guide and A endix A “Notices” on age 45.
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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Used to eject the tray of the o tical drive. After you insert a disc into the tray, ress the eject/close button to
close the tray.
2 Optical drive status indicator
This indicator is on when the o tical drive is in use.
3 Internal speaker (optional)
Used to listen to the sounds from your com uter without using a headset or head hones.
4 Storage drive status indicator
This indicator is on when the storage drive is in use.
5 ard reader slot (optional)
Used to read data from a su orted memory card.
6 Power indicator
This indicator is on when the com uter is on.
7 Power button
Used to turn on your com uter. When you cannot shut down the com uter from the o erating system, ress
and hold the ower button for four or more seconds to turn off the com uter.
8 Microphone connector
Used to connect a micro hone to your com uter. You can use the micro hone to record sounds or interact
with the com uter using s eech-recognition software.
9 Headset connector
Used to connect head hones to your com uter.
10 USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector
Used to connect a USB-com atible device. For o timal data transfer, connect a USB 3.1 device to a USB
3.1 connector instead of a USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 connector.
11 Illuminated red dot
This indicator is on when the com uter is on.
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Rear view
Note: Your com uter model might look slightly different from the illustration.
Figure 2. Rear view
1 Audio line-out connector 2 Dis layPort®-out connector
3 VGA-out connector 4 USB 2.0 connectors (2)
5 USB 3.1 Gen 1 connectors (2) 6 Power cord connector
7 Serial connector 8 Ethernet connector
9 Cable lock slots (2) 10 Padlock loo
11 Security-lock slot 12 Serial connector (o tional)
13 PCI-Ex ress card area
1 Audio line-out connector
Used to send audio signals from the com uter to external devices, such as owered stereo s eakers,
head hones, or multimedia keyboards. To connect a stereo system or other external recording device,
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connect a cable between the audio line-in connector of the device and the audio line-out connector of the
com uter.
Note: If your com uter has both an audio line-out connector and a headset or head hone connector, always
use the headset connector or head hone connector for ear hones, head hones, or a headset. The
head hone connector does not su ort headset micro hones.
2 DisplayPort connector
Used to send audio and video signals from the com uter to another audio or video device, such as a high-
erformance monitor.
3 VGA-out connector
Used to send video signals from the com uter to another video device, such as a monitor.
4 USB 2.0 connector
Used to connect a device that requires a USB 2.0 connection.
5 USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector
Used to connect a USB-com atible device. For o timal data transfer, connect a USB 3.1 Gen 1 device to a
USB 3.1 or USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector instead of a USB 2.0 connector.
6 Power cord connector
Used to connect the ower cord to your com uter for ower su ly.
7 Serial connector
Used to connect an external modem, a serial rinter, or other devices that use a serial connector.
8 Ethernet connector
Used to connect an Ethernet cable for network access.
9 able lock slots
Used to secure a cable lock.
10 Padlock loop
Used to secure a adlock.
11 Security-lock slot
Used to secure a Kensington-style cable lock.
12 Serial connector (optional)
Used to connect an external modem, a serial rinter, or other devices that use a serial connector.
13 P I-Express card area
To im rove the o erating erformance of the com uter, you can connect PCI-Ex ress cards into this area.
De ending on the com uter model, the connectors in this area vary.
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System board
Note: See “Front view” on age 1 and “Rear view” on age 3 for additional com onent descri tions.
Figure 3. System board
1 Micro rocessor socket 2 Micro rocessor fan connector
3 Memory slot (DIMM1) 4 Memory slot (DIMM2)
5 Coin-cell battery 6 6- in ower connector
7 Internal s eaker connector 8 Illuminated red dot connector
9 SATA 3.0 connector 10 M.2 storage drive slot
11 Parallel connector 12 Serial (COM2) connector
13 SATA ower connector 14 SATA 3.0 connector
15 Card reader connector 16 PCI Ex ress x16 gra hics card slot
17 Cover resence switch connector (Intrusion switch
connector)
18 PCI Ex ress x1 card slot
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Machine type and model label
The machine ty e and model label identifies the com uter. When you contact Lenovo for hel , the machine
ty e and model information hel s su ort technicians to identify the com uter and rovide faster service.
The machine ty e and model label is attached on the to of the com uter as shown.
Figure 4. achine type and model label
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