
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 SL400 and SL500 ......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 (for ThinkPad SL400) ..67
1050 DIMM slot cover (for ThinkPad SL500) ..67
1060 DIMM .............68
1070 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless
LAN/WiMAX ............69
1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN
(for ThinkPad SL400) ..........72
1090 Wireless WAN slot cover and PCI Express
Mini Card for wireless WAN (for ThinkPad
SL500) ...............74
1100 Thermal door (for ThinkPad SL400) ...76
1110 Thermal door (for ThinkPad SL500) ...77
1120 Fan assembly ...........78
1130 CPU thermal module ........81
1140 CPU ..............83
1150 Palm rest (for ThinkPad SL400) .....84
1160 Palm rest (for ThinkPad SL500) .....86
1170 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) ....88
1180 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard or Wireless
USB adapter .............89
1190 Backup battery (for ThinkPad SL400) ...91
1200 Backup battery (for ThinkPad SL500) ...92
1210 Keyboard ............93
1220 Top case sub assembly (for ThinkPad SL400) 95
1230 Top case sub assembly (for ThinkPad SL500) 97
1240 LCD unit (for ThinkPad SL400) .... 100
1250 LCD unit (for ThinkPad SL500) .... 105
1260 Frame L(magnesium frame assembly) .. 109
1270 SATA-ODD connector boardThinkPad
SL500) ............... 111
1280 System board...........112
1290 I/O board and I/O board FPC (for
ThinkPad SL400) ...........116
1300 Small board (for ThinkPad SL400) ....118
1310 Frame R(magnesium frame assembly),
DC-in connector, and base cover (for ThinkPad
SL400)............... 120
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