Lenovo ThinkPad T500 laptop
LENOVO T500 MANUAL
http://download.lenovo.com/...3y6630_03.pdf
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• About this manual »
• Safety information »
• General safety »
• Electrical safety »
• Safety inspection guide »
• Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic... »
• 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 »
• 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... »
• 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 T500 and W500 »
• Specifications »
• Status indicators »
• FRU tests »
• Fn key combinations »
• FRU replacement notices »
• Screw notices »
• Retaining serial numbers »
• Removing and replacing a FRU »
• Battery pack »
• Serial Ultrabay Slim device »
• Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader »
• DIMM »
• Keyboard »
• Modem daughter card (MDC-3.0) »
• PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN »
• Intel Turbo Memory Minicard or Wireless USB adapter »
• Backup battery »
• SIM card slot »
• Keyboard bezel »
• PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN »
• Speaker assembly »
• Fan assembly »
• CPU »
• LCD unit »
• Base cover and USB sub card with cable »
• Structure frame »
• System board and ExpressCard slot assembly »
• LCD front bezel (LCD cover kit) »
• LCD rear cover (LCD cover kit) »
• Inverter card or LED control card »
• Integrated camera »
• Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-2.1) »
• Antenna assembly »
• LCD panel and LCD cable »
• Hinges and LCD magnesium frame »
• Locations »
• Front view »
• Rear view »
• Bottom view »
• Parts list »
• Overall »
• LCD FRUs »
• Keyboard »
• Miscellaneous parts »
• AC adapters »
• Power cords »
• Recovery discs »
• Common service tools »
• Notices »
• Trademarks »
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• Important tips »
• Be careful about where and how you work »
• Be gentle with your computer »
• Register your computer »
• Carry your computer properly »
• Connect the internal modem correctly »
• Handle storage media and drives properly »
• Be sure not to modify your computer »
• Take care in setting passwords »
• Care for the fingerprint reader »
• Cleaning the cover of your computer »
• Cleaning your computer keyboard »
• Cleaning your computer display »
• Chapter 3. Solving computer problems »
• Frequently asked questions »
• Entering the BIOS Setup Utility »
• Diagnosing problems »
• HDD diagnostic program »
• Diagnosing problems using PC-Doctor from the service... »
• Troubleshooting »
• Error messages »
• Errors without messages »
• Memory problems »
• Password problems »
• Keyboard problems »
• Pointing device problems »
• Sleep (standby) or hibernation problems »
• Computer screen problems »
• Battery problems »
• AC adapter problems »
• Hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) problems »
• Fingerprint reader problems »
• Appendix B. Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) »
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LENOVO T500 SUPPORT & TROUBLESHOOTING
forums.lenovo.com
There are ways in finding and using drivers that aren't the manufacturer's...If anyone has had any success in modifying drivers on a Thinkpad such as the T500 (with switchable graphics Ati and Intel), please let me know...I personaly did not have such issues with my t500, but few times graphic switched "on it's own" from Ati to Intel (I noticed it was caused by Live...
www.fatwallet.com
Keep in mind this are brand new processors from Intel and is rated to have significant performance improvement over Penryn processor...In fact, only T400 is 25% off (+ CPP 15%), T500 is just the regular CPP 15% discount...If you want to get a 14" laptop, I think the deal is quite good...
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Brand New Lenovo Thinkpad T500 2.53GHz 2GB RAM - Kawasaki ZX-10R.net...I am selling for $900 shipped only to the lower 48 states, or you can come by and pick it up whichever works...For price verification you can go to the Lenovo site and plug in all these options to find out the actual retail for this Laptop...
www.chrisdavaz.com
Wow, I really didn’t expect it to happen but I was able to convince IT to replace the abomination that is the Lenovo “Thinkpad” SL500 with a real Thinkad, the T500...X fails to load because it is confused by the switchable graphics capability in the T500...Speaking of graphics, this laptop has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 as oppose to the NVidia (not sure the...
www.ocztechnologyforum.com
So when you make it AHCI compatible, would I expect that Vista will see it as an AHCI drive upon install...Frankly, I don't care what mode I use as long it is stable and I get good performance...Lenovo came out with a BIOS update around the same time as OCZ coming out with their new firmware and so far, so good...
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