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Contents
About this manual ....................................... iv
Safety information........................................ 1
Generalsafety................................................ 2
Electricalsafety.............................................. 3
Safetyinspectionguide.................................. 5
Handlingdevicesthataresensitiveto
electrostaticdischarge.................................... 6
Groundingrequirements................................. 6
Safetynotices:multilingualtranslations.......... 7
Lasercompliancestatement......................... 14
Important service information................... 16
StrategyforreplacingFRUs......................... 16
Strategyforreplacingaharddiskdrive............17
Importantnoticeforreplacingasystem
board................................................................17
Importantinformationaboutreplacing
RoHScompliantFRUs................................. 18
General checkout ...................................... 19
Whattodorst............................................. 20
Powersystemcheckout................................ 21
CheckingtheACadapter.................................21
Checkingoperationalcharging.........................22
Checkingthebatterypack................................22
Related service information ...................... 23
Restoringthefactorycontentsbyusing
recoverysystem........................................... 23
Restoreoffactorydefault.................................23
Passwords.................................................... 24
Power-onpassword..........................................24
Hard-diskpassword..........................................24
Administratorpassword....................................24
Powermanagement..................................... 25
Puttingthecomputertosleeporshutting
itdown..............................................................25
Puttingyourcomputertosleep.........................25
Shuttingdownthecomputer.............................25
Lenovo ideapad 520 ................................... 26
Specications............................................... 26
Statusindicators........................................... 28
Fnkeycombinations/Hotkeys....................... 29
FRUreplacementnotices............................. 30
Screwnotices..................................................30
RemovingandreplacinganFRU................. 31
1010Opticaldrive.............................................32
1020Basecover...............................................33
1030Batterypack.............................................35
1040Harddiskdrive.........................................37
1050DIMM.......................................................39
1060PCIExpressMiniCardforwireless
LAN...................................................................40
1070Fanandheatsinkassembly....................43
1080ODDBoard..............................................46
1090Speaker...................................................47
1100Uppercase...............................................48
1110
Systemboard............................................ 50
1120LCDunit...................................................52
1130LCDhinges..............................................54
1140EDPcableandintegratedcamera...........56
Locations...................................................... 58
Frontandright-sideview..................................58
Bottomandleft-sideview................................59
Partslist........................................................ 60
Overall..............................................................61
LCDFRUs........................................................73
Miscellaneousparts..........................................74
ACadapters......................................................75
Screws..............................................................76
Notices......................................................... 77
Trademarks.................................................. 78