
Contents
About this manual ..........v
Safety information ..........1
General safety ..............1
Electrical safety .............2
Safety inspection guide ...........3
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic
discharge ...............4
Grounding requirements ..........5
Safety notices: multilingual translations .....5
Laser compliance statement .........11
Important service information .....15
Strategy for replacing FRUs .........15
Strategy for replacing ahard disk drive ....16
Important notice for replacing asystem board ..16
How to use error message ........16
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and
GAV.................16
Product definition ...........16
FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV
products ..............17
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs .............18
General checkout ..........21
What to do first .............22
Checkout guide .............23
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS ....24
PC-Doctor for Windows .........26
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery .....26
Power system checkout ..........27
Checking the ac adapter .........27
Checking operational charging .......28
Checking the battery pack ........28
Checking the backup battery .......29
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 ..........32
How to remove the power-on password ....33
How to remove the hard-disk password ....33
Power management ...........34
Screen blank mode ...........34
Standby mode ............34
Hibernation mode ...........35
Symptom-to-FRU index ..........36
Numeric error codes ..........36
Error messages ............41
Beep symptoms ............42
No-beep symptoms...........42
LCD-related symptoms .........43
Intermittent problems ..........43
Undetermined problems .........44
ThinkPad T61, R61, and R61i (14.1-inch
widescreen) ............45
Specifications ..............45
Status indicators .............49
FRU tests ...............52
Fn key combinations ...........54
FRU replacement notices ..........57
Screw notices .............57
Retaining serial numbers .........58
Removing and replacing aFRU........60
1010 Battery pack ...........61
1020 Ultrabay Slim device or Ultrabay Enhanced
device ...............62
1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover, HDD, and
HDD rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and
storage converter ...........63
1040 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint
reader ...............65
1050 DIMM .............68
1060 Keyboard ............69
1070 Modem daughter card (MDC-1.5) ....71
1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN..73
1090 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN or
Intel Turbo Memory Mini Card .......75
1100 SIM card slot ...........77
1110 Backup battery ..........79
1120 Keyboard bezel ..........80
1130 Speaker assembly .........82
1140 Fan assembly ...........84
1150 CPU ..............89
1160 LCD assembly...........90
1170 Base cover, USB sub card with cable, and
PC Card slots bezel assembly .......93
1180 Structure frame ..........99
1190 System board, PC Card/Express Card slots
assembly or PC Card/Smart Card slots
assembly or PC Card/4-in-1 media reader slot
assembly .............. 103
2010 LCD front bezel and LCD rear cover (LCD
cover kit) .............. 106
2020 Inverter card ...........110
2030 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2) .... 111
2040 Antenna assembly .........112
2050 LCD magnesium frame, hinge assembly,
and integrated camera .........114
2060 LCD panel and LCD cable ......117
Locations ...............118
Front view .............118
Rear view .............119
Bottom view............. 120
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