
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 ............43
Beep symptoms ............44
No-beep symptoms...........44
LCD-related symptoms .........45
Intermittent problems ..........46
Undetermined problems .........46
ThinkPad X300 ...........47
Specifications ..............47
Status indicators .............49
FRU tests ...............51
Fn key combinations ...........53
FRU replacement notices ..........55
Screw notices .............55
Retaining serial numbers .........56
Removing and replacing aFRU........59
Before servicing ThinkPad X300 ......60
1010 Battery pack ...........61
1020 Second battery or travel cover (some
models)...............62
1030 Solid state drive (SSD) ........63
1040 DIMM .............65
1050 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN..67
1060 Wireless USB adapter ........70
1070 Keyboard ............73
1080 Optical drive ...........77
1090 Backup battery ..........78
1100 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN 79
1110 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint
reader ...............81
1120 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2) ....84
1130 Keyboard bezel ..........85
1140 Audio FPC and audio sub card .....88
1150 Speaker assembly .........90
1160 LCD assembly...........91
1170 VGA cable and DC-in connector.....94
1180 System board, fan, and base cover assembly 96
2010 LCD bezel assembly ........ 102
2020 LCD panel and LCD cable ...... 103
2030 Integrated camera ......... 107
2040 Antenna assembly ......... 108
2050 Hinge Land hinge R........ 111
2060 LED sub card, LED cable and LCD cover
assembly ..............113
Locations ...............115
Front view .............115
Rear view .............116
Bottom view.............116
Parts list ...............117
Overall ..............118
LCD FRUs ............. 123
Keyboard.............. 125
Miscellaneous parts .......... 126
AC adapters............. 128
Power cords ............. 129
Recovery discs ............ 130
Common service tools ......... 133
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