•IfanadapteroradeviceconsistsofmorethanoneFRU,anyoftheFRUsmaybethecauseoftheerror.
Beforereplacingtheadapterordevice,removetheFRUs,onebyone,toseeifthesymptomschange.
ReplaceonlytheFRUthatchangedthesymptoms.
Strategyforreplacingaharddiskdrive
Alwaystrytorunalow-levelformatbeforereplacingaharddiskdrive(HDD).Thiswillcauseallcustomerdata
ontheharddisktobelost.Besurethatthecustomerhasacurrentbackupofthedatabeforedoingthistask.
Attention:Thedrivestartupsequenceinthecomputeryouareservicingmayhavebeenchanged.Be
extremelycarefulduringwriteoperationssuchascopying,saving,orformatting.Ifyouselectanincorrect
drive,dataorprogramscanbeoverwritten.
Importantnoticeforreplacingasystemboard
Somecomponentsmountedonasystemboardareverysensitive.Improperhandlingofasystemboardcan
causedamagetothosecomponents,andmaycauseasystemmalfunction.
Attention:Whenhandlingasystemboard:
•Donotdropasystemboardorapplyanyexcessiveforcetoit.
•Avoidroughhandlingofanykind.
•AvoidbendingasystemboardandhardpushingtopreventcrackingateachBGA(BallGridArray)chipset.
ImportantinformationaboutreplacingRoHScompliantFRUs
RoHS,TheRestrictionofHazardousSubstancesinElectricalandElectronicEquipmentDirective
(2002/95/EC)isaEuropeanUnionlegalrequirementaffectingtheglobalelectronicsindustry.RoHS
requirementsmustbeimplementedonLenovoproductsplacedonthemarketafterJune2006.Products
onthemarketbeforeJune2006arenotrequiredtohaveRoHScompliantparts.IftheoriginalFRUparts
arenon-compliant,thereplacementpartsalsocanbenon-compliant.Thatis,iftheoriginalFRUpartsare
RoHScompliant,thereplacementpartalsomustbeRoHScompliant.
Note:RoHSandnon-RoHSFRUpartnumberswiththesametandfunctionareidentiedbytheunique
FRUpartnumbers.
LenovoplanstotransittoRoHScompliancebeforetheimplementationdateandexpectsitssupplierstobe
readytomeetLenovo’srequirementsandscheduleintheEuropeanUnion.Productssoldbetween2005
and2006mightcontainsomeRoHScompliantFRUs.Thefollowingstatementpertainstotheproducts
withRoHScompliantFRUs.
RoHScompliantFRUshaveuniqueFRUpartnumbers.BeforeoraftertheRoHSimplementationdate,the
failedRoHScompliantpartsmustbereplacedwithcompliantpartsandonlythefollowingFRUscanbe
used:identiedascompliantintheHardwareMaintenanceManualordirectsubstitutionscanbeused.
•CompliantFRUsidentiedinHardwareMaintenanceManual
•DirectsubstitutionswithdifferentFRUpartnumbersautomaticallyshippedbythedistributioncenterat
thetimeoforder
ForproductsshippedafterJune2006
Currentororiginalpart
ReplacementFRU
MustbeRoHSMustbeRoHS
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