
Contents
About this manual ..........v
Safety information ..........1
General safety ..............2
Electrical safety .............3
Safety inspection guide ...........5
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic
discharge ...............6
Grounding requirements ..........6
Safety notices: multilingual translations .....7
Laser compliance statement .........14
Important service information .....17
Strategy for replacing FRUs .........17
Strategy for replacing ahard disk drive ....18
Important notice for replacing asystem board ..18
How to use error message ........18
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV.................19
Product definition ...........19
FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products ..............19
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs .............21
General checkout ..........23
What to do first .............24
Checkout guide .............25
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS ....26
PC-Doctor for Windows .........28
Power system checkout ..........29
Checking the AC adapter .........29
Checking operational charging .......29
Checking the battery pack ........30
Related service information......31
Restoring the factory contents by using Product
Recovery discs .............31
Passwords ...............32
Power-on password ..........32
Hard-disk password ..........32
Supervisor password ..........33
How to remove the hard-disk password ....33
Power management ...........34
Screen blank mode ...........34
Sleep (standby) mode ..........34
Hibernation mode ...........35
Symptom-to-FRU index ..........36
Numeric error codes ..........36
Error messages ............38
Beep symptoms ............39
No-beep symptoms...........39
LCD-related symptoms .........40
Intermittent problems ..........41
Undetermined problems .........41
Lenovo 3000 N500 ..........43
Specifications ..............43
Status indicators .............45
FRU tests ...............47
Fn key combinations ...........48
FRU replacement notices ..........49
Screw notices .............49
Retaining serial numbers .........50
Removing and replacing aFRU........53
1010 Battery pack ...........54
1020 Dummy cards ...........55
1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) slot cover and HDD 56
1040 Optical drive ...........58
1050 Thermal slot cover .........59
1060 DIMM .............60
1070 Fan assembly ...........61
1080 Heat sink assembly .........63
1090 Wireless LAN card slot cover and PCI
Express Mini Card for wireless LAN .....65
1100 CPU ..............67
1110 Keyboard cover and power board ....68
1120 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) ....70
1130 Keyboard ............71
1140 LCD unit ............73
1150 Keyboard bezel and LED board L....76
1160 LED board R...........79
1170 System board and ExpressCard slot
assembly ..............80
1180 Speakers and base cover .......84
2010 LCD front bezel ..........86
2020 Inverter card ...........87
2030 Integrated camera .........88
2040 LCD panel, LCD cable, and hinges ....89
2050 Antenna assembly and LCD cover ....92
Locations ...............93
Front view..............93
Rear view ..............95
Bottom view .............95
Parts list ...............96
Overall ...............97
LCD FRUs ............. 101
Keyboard.............. 103
Miscellaneous parts .......... 104
AC adapters............. 105
Power cords ............. 106
Recovery discs ............ 107
Common service tools ......... 111
Notices ..............113
Trademarks ..............114
©Copyright Lenovo 2008 iii