
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
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery .....28
Power system checkout ..........29
Checking the AC adapter .........29
Checking operational charging .......30
Checking the battery pack ........30
Checking the backup battery .......31
Related service information......33
Restoring the factory contents by using Product
Recovery discs .............33
Passwords ...............34
Power-on password ..........34
Hard-disk password ..........34
Supervisor password ..........34
How to remove the power-on password ....35
How to remove the hard-disk password ....35
Power management ...........37
Screen blank mode ...........37
Standby mode ............37
Hibernation mode ...........38
Symptom-to-FRU index ..........39
Numeric error codes ..........39
Error messages ............44
Beep symptoms ............45
No-beep symptoms...........45
LCD-related symptoms .........46
Intermittent problems ..........47
Undetermined problems .........47
ThinkPad SL300...........49
Specifications ..............49
Status indicators .............52
FRU tests ...............54
Fn key combinations ...........56
FRU replacement notices ..........58
Screw notices .............58
Retaining serial numbers .........59
Removing and replacing aFRU........62
1010 Battery pack ...........63
1020 Optical drive ...........64
1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover and HDD ..65
1040 DIMM slot cover ..........67
1050 DIMM .............68
1060 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN 69
1070 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard .....71
1080 Thermal door ...........72
1090 Fan assembly ...........73
1100 CPU thermal module ........75
1110 CPU ..............77
1120 Palm rest ............78
1130 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC) .....81
1140 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless
LAN/WiMAX ............82
1150 Keyboard ............84
1160 Backup battery ..........86
1170 Top case sub assembly ........87
1180 Magnesium frame assembly ......89
1190 I/O board ............90
1200 LCD unit ............92
1210 System board ...........96
1220 Small board ........... 101
1230 Base cover ........... 102
2010 LCD front bezel .......... 103
2020 Integrated camera ......... 104
2030 LCD panel ........... 105
2040 Antenna assembly, LCD cable, camera
cable, and hinges ........... 107
Locations ...............112
Front view .............112
Rear view .............114
Bottom view.............114
Parts list ...............115
Overall ..............116
LCD FRUs ............. 129
Keyboard.............. 132
Miscellaneous parts .......... 133
AC adapters............. 134
Power cords ............. 135
Recovery discs ............ 136
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