Leon, Thanks. Sorry to be such a newbie, but is this how I access the BIOS? Turn off the computer. Turn on the computer. While the To interrupt normal startup, press the blue Access IBM button message is displayed at the lower-left area of the screen, press the Access IBM button. Double-click Start ...

James,

Thanks for this info.

I've changed my Power setting as you suggested.

Cannot find the wired ethernet port setting hwvr. Can you let me know where to find this?

What exactly is this setting doing, just for my education.

Thanks again.

PS. just read RonS's post again. We sat in the coffee shop on another project for quite sometime (2-3hrs), thus outside of moving from the table to the laptop case, the laptop did not move for at least that amount of time. Hwvr, if APS is the feature which detects a laptop 'falling off a table' I di...

I'm thinking hard to recreate sequence of events at the coffee shop. When I either went 'standby' or 'shutdown', I might have closed the lid pretty quickly. I was moving onto a follow on project, and needed to clear the table space, as my colleague arrived. So it could have went into an incomplete h...

Hello FTC, Now that I think about it, I'm not positive I shut-down. Maybe it was in hibernation after all. I was in the middle of work projects, so that might be the case. When I started it up again, it booted up as if it had been a complete shutdown, but perhaps that is bcs the battery was drained ...

Hi All, Am a newbie in aces, one of my first posts. An odd thing happened to my T42 tonight where the battery was drained to absolute zero, while it was turned off. What was so alarming was my laptop was incredibly hot when I pulled it out of the case! That really scared me, and I hope I haven't fri...

Hope I'm not interrupting the conversation, it's my first post ever as I'm about to become an owner, I hope, of a T42 (gulp, it sure is alot of money) :shock: . On the IBM site & there is a Kensington Saddlebag Pro bag. Does anyone have a comment on this bag? I need a biz looking briefcase & I'm a m...