Lenovo 410556U - Topseller S20 Twr W3520 2.66G 4Gb 500Gb Dvdrw Wvb User Manual

Contents

ContentsIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iiiChapter1.Important safetyinformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Chapter2.Arranging yourworkspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Glare and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Air circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Electrical outlets and cable lengths . . . . . . . 4Chapter3.Setting up your computer . . 5Connecting your computer . . . . . . . . . . . 5Turning on computer power . . . . . . . . . . 9Finishing the software installation . . . . . . . 10Completing important tasks . . . . . . . . . 10Updating your operating system. . . . . . . . 10Installing other operating systems . . . . . . . 10Updating your antivirus software . . . . . . . 11Shutting down the computer . . . . . . . . . 11Installing external options . . . . . . . . . . 11Installing the computer on a rack shelf . . . . . 11Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Chapter4.Software overview. . . . . 15Software provided with your Windows operatingsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Software provided by Lenovo . . . . . . . 15Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . 15Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox. . . . . . . 16PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . 16Adobe Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Chapter5.Using the Setup Utility. . . 17Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 17Viewing and changing settings . . . . . . . . 17Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 17User Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . 18Setting, changing, and deleting a password . 18Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 18Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 19Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 19Selecting or changing the startup devicesequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Exiting from the Setup Utility program . . . . . 19Chapter6.Installing hard disk drivesand configuring RAID . . . . . . . . . 21Installing SATA hard disk drives and configuringRAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Installing SATA hard disk drives . . . . . . 21Configuring the system BIOS to enable SATARAID functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . 21Creating RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 22Deleting RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 22Installing SAS hard disk drives and configuringRAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Installing SAS hard disk drives. . . . . . . 22Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to configureSAS RAID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enableSAS RAID 0, 1, or 5 functionality . . . . . . 23Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set anoptional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . . 24Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to deletean optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . 24Configuring the Marvell BIOS Setup to deletean array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Chapter7.Updating systemprograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Using system programs . . . . . . . . . . . 25Updating (flashing) the BIOS from a disc . . . . 25Updating (flashing) the BIOS from your operatingsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . 26Chapter8.Troubleshooting anddiagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Basic troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Lenovo Solution Center . . . . . . . . . 29Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox. . . . . . . 29PC-Doctor for Rescue and Recovery . . . . 29PC-Doctor for DOS . . . . . . . . . . . 30Cleaning an optical mouse . . . . . . . . . . 30Chapter9.Recovery information . . . 33Creating and using recovery media . . . . . . 33Creating recovery media . . . . . . . . . 33Using recovery media . . . . . . . . . . 33Performing backup and recovery operations . . . 34© Copyright Lenovo 2009, 2011 i