IBM SL500 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Contents

  5
• About this manual

  7
• Safety information

  9
  • General safety

    10
  • Electrical safety

    11
  • Safety inspection guide

    13
  • Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge

    14
  • Grounding requirements

    14
  • Safety notices: multilingual translations

    15
  • Laser compliance statement

    22
• Important service information

  25
  • Strategy for replacing FRUs

    25
    • Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive

      26
    • Important notice for replacing a system board

      26
    • How to use error message

      26
  • Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and GAV

    27
    • Product definition

      27
    • FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV products

      27
  • Important information about replacing RoHS compliant FRUs

    29
• General checkout

  31
  • What to do first

    32
  • Checkout guide

    33
    • Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS

      34
      • Testing the computer

        34
      • Detecting system information with PC-Doctor

        36
    • PC-Doctor for Windows

      36
    • PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery

      36
  • Power system checkout

    37
    • Checking the AC adapter

      37
    • Checking operational charging

      38
    • Checking the battery pack

      38
    • Checking the backup battery

      39
• Related service information

  41
  • Restoring the factory contents by using Product Recovery discs

    41
  • Passwords

    42
    • Power-on password

      42
    • Hard-disk password

      42
    • Supervisor password

      42
    • How to remove the power-on password

      43
    • How to remove the hard-disk password

      43
  • Power management

    45
    • Screen blank mode

      45
    • Standby mode

      45
    • Hibernation mode

      46
  • Symptom-to-FRU index

    47
    • Numeric error codes

      47
    • Error messages

      52
    • Beep symptoms

      53
    • No-beep symptoms

      53
    • LCD-related symptoms

      54
    • Intermittent problems

      55
    • Undetermined problems

      55
• ThinkPad SL400 and SL500

  57
  • Specifications

    57
  • Status indicators

    60
  • FRU tests

    62
  • Fn key combinations

    64
  • FRU replacement notices

    66
    • Screw notices

      66
    • Retaining serial numbers

      67
      • Restoring the serial number of the system unit

        67
      • Retaining the UUID

        67
      • Reading or writing the ECA information

        69
  • Removing and replacing a FRU

    70
    • 1010 Battery pack

      71
    • 1020 Optical drive

      72
    • 1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover and HDD

      73
    • 1040 DIMM slot cover (for ThinkPad SL400)

      75
    • 1050 DIMM slot cover (for ThinkPad SL500)

      75
    • 1060 DIMM

      76
    • 1070 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN/WiMAX

      77
    • 1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN (for ThinkPad SL400)

      80
    • 1090 Wireless WAN slot cover and PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN (for ThinkPad SL500)

      82
    • 1100 Thermal door (for ThinkPad SL400)

      84
    • 1110 Thermal door (for ThinkPad SL500)

      85
    • 1120 Fan assembly

      86
    • 1130 CPU thermal module

      89
    • 1140 CPU

      91
    • 1150 Palm rest (for ThinkPad SL400)

      92
    • 1160 Palm rest (for ThinkPad SL500)

      94
    • 1170 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1)

      96
    • 1180 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard or Wireless USB adapter

      97
    • 1190 Backup battery (for ThinkPad SL400)

      99
    • 1200 Backup battery (for ThinkPad SL500)

      100
    • 1210 Keyboard

      101
    • 1220 Top case sub assembly (for ThinkPad SL400)

      103
    • 1230 Top case sub assembly (for ThinkPad SL500)

      105
    • 1240 LCD unit (for ThinkPad SL400)

      108
    • 1250 LCD unit (for ThinkPad SL500)

      113
    • 1260 Frame L (magnesium frame assembly)

      117
    • 1270 SATA-ODD connector boardThinkPad SL500)

      119
    • 1280 System board

      120
    • 1290 I/O board and I/O board FPC (for ThinkPad SL400)

      124
    • 1300 Small board (for ThinkPad SL400)

      126
    • 1310 Frame R (magnesium frame assembly), DC-in connector, and base cover (for ThinkPad SL400)

      128
    • 1320 Frame R (magnesium frame assembly), I/O board, I/O board FPC, DC-in connector, small board, and base cover (for ThinkPad SL500)

      130
    • 2010 LCD front bezel

      133
    • 2020 Inverter card

      134
    • 2030 Integrated camera

      135
    • 2040 Wireless LAN antenna assembly, wireless WAN antenna assembly, and camera cable (for ThinkPad SL400)

      136
    • 2050 Wireless LAN antenna assembly. wireless WAN antenna assembly, and camera cable (for ThinkPad SL500)

      138
    • 2060 LCD panel, hinge L, hinge R, LCD cable, and LCD rear cover assembly (for ThinkPad SL400)

      140
    • 2070 LCD panel, hinge L, hinge R, LCD cable, and LCD rear cover assembly (for ThinkPad SL500)

      143
  • Locations

    146
    • Front view (for ThinkPad SL400)

      146
    • Rear view (for ThinkPad SL400)

      148
    • Bottom view (for ThinkPad SL400)

      149
    • Front view (for ThinkPad SL500)

      150
    • Rear view (for ThinkPad SL500)

      152
    • Bottom view (for ThinkPad SL500)

      152
  • Parts list

    153
    • Overall

      154
    • LCD FRUs

      185
      • 14.1-in. WXGA TFT

        185
      • 14.1-in. WXGA+ TFT

        192
      • 15.4-in. WXGA TFT

        193
      • 15.4-in. WSXGA+ TFT

        198
    • Keyboard

      200
    • Miscellaneous parts

      201
    • AC adapters

      202
    • Power cords

      203
    • Recovery discs

      204
      • Windows XP Professional DVDs

        204
      • Windows Vista Starter Edition (32 bit) DVDs

        206
      • Windows Vista Home Basic (32 bit) DVDs

        207
      • Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) DVDs

        209
      • Windows Vista Business (32 bit) DVDs

        210
      • Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit) DVDs

        212
    • Common service tools

      213
• Notices

  215
  • Trademarks

    216