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Maint
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Manual
ThinkP
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T540p,
W540,
and
W541
2
Table of Contents
Default Chapter
3
Table of Contents
3
About this Manual
5
Chapter 1. Safety Information
7
General Safety
7
Electrical Safety
7
Safety Inspection Guide
8
Handling Devices that Are Sensitive to Electrostatic Discharge
9
Grounding Requirements
10
Safety Notices (Multilingual Translations)
10
Chapter 2. Important Service Information
25
Strategy for Replacing Frus
25
Strategy for Replacing a Hard Disk Drive or a Solid-State Drive
25
Important Notice for Replacing a System Board
26
How to Use Error Message
26
Strategy for Replacing Frus for CTO, Special-Bid, and Standard Models
26
Product Definition
26
FRU Identification
26
Chapter 3. General Checkout
29
What to Do First
29
Checkout Guide
30
Lenovo Solution Center
30
Quick Test Programs
30
UEFI Diagnostic Program
31
Bootable Diagnostic Programs
32
Power System Checkout
32
Checking the Ac Power Adapter
33
Checking the Battery and Operational Charging
33
Checking the Coin-Cell Battery
34
Chapter 4. Related Service Information
35
Restoring the Factory Contents by Using the Recovery Disc Set
35
Using the Windows Recovery Solutions (for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Only)
36
Refreshing Your Computer
36
Resetting Your Computer to the Factory Default Settings
37
Using the Advanced Startup Options
37
Using the Windows Recovery Environment
38
Creating and Using Recovery Media
38
Recovery Overview for the Windows 10 Operating System
39
Resetting Your Computer
39
Using Advanced Startup Options
39
Creating and Using a Recovery USB Drive
40
Recovering Your Operating System if Windows 10 Fails to Start
40
Passwords
41
Hard Disk Password
41
How to Remove the Power-On Password
41
Power-On Password
41
Supervisor Password
41
How to Remove the Hard Disk Password
42
Power Management
42
Hibernation Mode
43
Screen Blank Mode (for Windows 7 Only)
43
Sleep Mode
43
Symptom-To-FRU Index
44
Numeric Error Codes
44
Error Messages
45
Beep Symptoms
46
LCD-Related Symptoms
46
No-Beep Symptoms
46
Intermittent Problems
47
Undetermined Problems
47
Chapter 5. Status Indicators
49
Chapter 6. Function Keys
51
Chapter 7. Locations
53
Locating Computer Controls, Connectors, and Indicators
53
Front View
53
Rear View
54
Bottom View
54
Locating Frus and Crus
55
Major Frus
56
LCD Frus
58
Miscellaneous Parts and Other Frus
59
Looking up FRU Information
59
Chapter 8. FRU Replacement Notices
61
Screw Notices
61
Retaining Serial Numbers
62
Restoring the Serial Number of the System Unit
62
Retaining the UUID
63
Reading or Writing the ECA Information
63
Chapter 9. Removing or Replacing a FRU
65
General Guidelines
65
Common Service Tools
66
Before Servicing the Computer
66
Removing the SIM Card
66
1010 Battery Pack
66
1020 Expresscard Reader or Dummy Expresscard
67
1030 Large Bottom Door
68
1040 Hard Disk Drive or Solid-State Drive
68
1050 Optical Drive
69
1060 Memory Module
70
1070 Small Bottom Door
71
1080 Wireless LAN Card
72
1090 Wireless WAN Card or M.2 Solid-State Drive
73
1100 Coin-Cell Battery
75
1110 Keyboard
76
1120 Keyboard Bezel Assembly
81
1130 Power Button Card, Color Sensor, NFC Card, Fingerprint Reader, and Trackpad
83
1140 Smart Card Reader or Dummy Smart Card
88
1150 LCD Unit
90
1160 Magnesium Structure Frame
93
1170 Speaker Assembly
94
1180 DC-In Cable Assembly
95
1190 Thermal Fan Assembly
96
1200 USB Card
98
1210 Microprocessor
98
1220 System Board and Base Cover
99
2010 LCD Front Bezel
102
2020 LCD Panel, Hinges, and LCD Cable
103
2030 Camera-And-Microphone Card and Camera-And-Microphone Cable
108
2040 Antenna Kit and LCD Rear Cover Assembly
109
Appendix A. Notices
113
Electronic Emissions Notices
114
Trademarks
114
Appendix B. Abbreviation Table
115
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Lenovo ThinkPad W540 Specifications
General
Display
15.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Graphics
NVIDIA Quadro K1100M
RAM
DDR3L
Battery
6-cell
Ports
Ethernet
Wireless
Bluetooth 4.0
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