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Contents
About this manual ....................................... iv
Safety information ........................................ 1
General safety ................................................ 2
Electrical safety .............................................. 3
Safety inspection guide .................................. 5
Handling devices that are sensitive to
electrostatic discharge .................................... 6
Grounding requirements ................................. 6
Safety notices: multilingual translations.......... 7
Laser compliance statement......................... 14
Important service information ................... 16
Strategy for replacing FRUs ......................... 16
Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive ............17
Important notice for replacing a system board ...17
Important information about replacing RoHS
compliant FRUs ............................................ 18
General checkout ...................................... 19
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Power system checkout................................ 21
Checking the ac adapter ..................................21
Checking operational charging .........................22
Checking the battery pack ................................22
Related service information ...................... 23
Restoring the factory contents by using
recovery system ........................................... 23
Restore of factory default .................................23
Passwords .................................................... 24
Power-on password ..........................................24
Hard-disk password ..........................................24
Administrator password ....................................24
Power management ..................................... 25
Putting the computer to sleep or
shutting it down .................................................25
Putting your computer to sleep .........................25
Shutting down the computer .............................25
Lenovo V145 ............................................... 26
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Status indicators ........................................... 28
Setting hotkey mode .........................................29
Fn key combinations/Hotkeys....................... 29
FRU replacement notices ............................. 30
Screw notices ..................................................30
Removing and replacing an FRU ................. 31
1010 Optical drive .............................................32
1020 Base cover ...............................................33
1030 Battery pack .............................................35
1040 Hard disk drive .........................................36
1050 DIMM .......................................................38
1060 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN ...39
1070 ODD board ..............................................41
1080 Fan and heat sink assembly ....................42
1090 Speaker ...................................................45
1100 RTC battery ..............................................46
1110 System board ............................................ 47
1120 Upper case ...............................................49
1130 LCD unit ...................................................50
1140 EDP cable and integrated camera ...........52
1150 LCD hinges ..............................................54
Locations ...................................................... 55
Front and right-side view ..................................55
Bottom and left-side view ................................56
Parts list ........................................................ 57
Lenovo V145-14AST
Overall ..............................................................58
LCD FRUs ........................................................61
Miscellaneous parts ..........................................62
ac adapters .......................................................62
Screws ..............................................................63
Lenovo V145-15AST
Overall ..............................................................64
LCD FRUs ........................................................67
Miscellaneous parts ..........................................68
ac adapters .......................................................68
Screws ..............................................................69
Notices......................................................... 70
Trademarks .................................................. 71