Document Outline

• 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 (multilingual translations)
• 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
• General checkout
  • What to do first
  • Checkout guide
    • Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS
      • Testing the computer
      • Detecting system information with PC-Doctor
    • Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox (Lenovo System Toolbox)
    • PC-Doctor for Windows
    • PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery
    • FRU tests
  • 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
  • Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery Disc Set
  • 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
    • Sleep (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
• Status indicators
• 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
  • Before servicing ThinkPad X301
  • 1010 Battery pack
  • 1020 Optical drive or second battery or travel cover
  • 1030 Solid state drive (SSD) or hard disk drive (HDD)
  • 1040 DIMM
  • 1050 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN
  • 1060 Wireless USB adapter or Intel Turbo Memory Minicard
  • 1070 Keyboard
  • 1080 Backup battery
  • 1090 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN
  • 1100 Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader
  • 1110 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2)
  • 1120 Keyboard bezel
  • 1130 Audio FPC and audio sub card
  • 1140 Speaker assembly
  • 1150 LCD assembly
  • 1160 VGA cable and DC-in connector
  • 1170 System board, fan, and base cover assembly
  • 2010 LCD bezel assembly
  • 2020 LCD panel and LCD cable
  • 2030 Integrated camera
  • 2040 Antenna assembly
  • 2050 Hinge L and hinge R
  • 2060 LED sub card, LED cable and LCD cover assembly
• Locations
  • Front view
  • Rear view
  • Bottom view
• Parts list
  • Overall
  • LCD FRUs
  • Keyboard
  • Miscellaneous parts
  • AC adapters
  • Power cords
  • Recovery discs
    • Windows XP Professional (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows Vista Home Basic (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows Vista Business (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows Vista Business (64 bit) DVDs
    • Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows 7 Home Basic (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) DVDs
    • Windows 7 Professional (32 bit) DVDs
    • Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) DVDs
  • Common service tools
• Notices
  • Trademarks