Contents
About this manual
Safety information
General safety
Electrical safety
Safety inspection guide
Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge
Grounding requirements
Safety notices: multilingual translations
Laser compliance statement
Important service information
Strategy for replacing FRUs
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive
Important notice for replacing a system board
How to use error message
Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and GAV
Product definition
FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV products
Important information about replacing RoHS compliant FRUs
General checkout
What to do first
Checkout guide
Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS
Testing the computer
Detecting system information with PC-Doctor
PC-Doctor for Windows®
PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery
Power system checkout
Checking the AC adapter
Checking operational charging
Checking the battery pack
Checking the backup battery
Related service information
Restoring the factory contents by using Product Recovery discs
Passwords
Power-on password
Hard-disk password
Supervisor password
How to remove the power-on password
How to remove the hard-disk password
Power management
Screen blank mode
Standby mode
Hibernation mode
Symptom-to-FRU index
Numeric error codes
Error messages
Beep symptoms
No-beep symptoms
LCD-related symptoms
Intermittent problems
Undetermined problems
ThinkPad SL400 and SL500
Specifications
Status indicators
FRU tests
Fn key combinations
FRU replacement notices
Screw notices
Retaining serial numbers
Restoring the serial number of the system unit
Retaining the UUID
Reading or writing the ECA information
Removing and replacing a FRU
1010 Battery pack
1020 Optical drive
1030 Hard disk drive (HDD) cover and HDD
1040 DIMM slot cover (for ThinkPad SL400)
1050 DIMM slot cover (for ThinkPad SL500)
1060 DIMM
1070 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN
1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN (for ThinkPad SL400)
1090 Wireless WAN slot cover and PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN (for ThinkPad SL500)
1100 Thermal door (for ThinkPad SL400)
1110 Thermal door (for ThinkPad SL500)
1120 Fan assembly
1130 CPU thermal module
1140 CPU
1150 Palm rest (for ThinkPad SL400)
1160 Palm rest (for ThinkPad SL500)
1170 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1)
1180 Intel Turbo Memory Minicard
1190 Backup battery (for ThinkPad SL400)
1200 Backup battery (for ThinkPad SL500)
1210 Keyboard
1220 Top case sub assembly (for ThinkPad SL400)
1230 Top case sub assembly (for ThinkPad SL500)
1240 LCD unit (for ThinkPad SL400)
1250 LCD unit (for ThinkPad SL500)
1260 Frame L (magnesium frame assembly)
1270 SATA-ODD connector card and FPC (for ThinkPad SL500)
1280 System board
1290 I/O board and I/O board FPC (for ThinkPad SL400)
1300 Small board (for ThinkPad SL400)
1310 Frame R (magnesium frame assembly), DC-in connector, and base cover (for ThinkPad SL400)
1320 Frame R (magnesium frame assembly), I/O board, I/O board FPC, DC-in connector, small board, and base cover (for ThinkPad SL500)
2010 LCD front bezel
2020 Inverter card
2030 Integrated camera
2040 Wireless LAN antenna assembly, wireless WAN antenna assembly, and camera cable (for ThinkPad SL400)
2050 Wireless LAN antenna assembly. wireless WAN antenna assembly, and camera cable (for ThinkPad SL500)
2060 LCD panel, hinge L, hinge R, LCD cable, and LCD rear cover assembly (for ThinkPad SL400)
2070 LCD panel, hinge L, hinge R, LCD cable, and LCD rear cover assembly (for ThinkPad SL500)
Locations
Front view (for ThinkPad SL400)
Rear view (for ThinkPad SL400)
Bottom view (for ThinkPad SL400)
Front view (for ThinkPad SL500)
Rear view (for ThinkPad SL500)
Bottom view (for ThinkPad SL500)
Parts list
Overall
LCD FRUs
14.1-in. WXGA TFT
14.1-in. WXGA+ TFT
15.4-in. WXGA TFT
15.4-in. WSXGA+ TFT
Keyboard
Miscellaneous parts
AC adapters
Power cords
Recovery discs
Windows Vista Home Basic (32 bit) DVDs
Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) DVDs
Windows Vista Business (32 bit) DVDs
Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit) DVDs
Common service tools
Notices
Trademarks