After I removed the mini pci cca the xp load went smoothly. I replaced it after I was finished and it worked for awhile and then the computer locked up again and would freeze when I tried to restart windows. I guess I'll get on ebay and pick up one. Thanks again for your help.

Well when I removed it. the test showed NA and went right thru. It ran the quick diagnostics with no problem. I'm going to try and run the normal diagnostics and see what it says. I did try and run the windows xp home program again and it said it was looking for a file "ASM" but couldn't find it on ...

While running PC Doctor, the computer freezes or locks up while running communication tests at "Intel Modem Register". I have to hold the power button to reset it. Its done this 4 times. Is this a mother board issue?

I'm running the pc doctor as we speak. Depending on what this shows, I'll try resetting the bios. How would you go finding out if the windows xp disk is bad unless you try it on another computer?
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I have tried two different hdd's and they both hang at the same spot. I'll try pc doctor this weekend. Can you tell me a link that shows how to take this T20 laptop apart. The bottom does get a lttle warm and I'ld like to see if the fan is needs to be cleaned.
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I'm trying to load XP home on a Thinkpad T20 but it hangs up while loading. It gets to 34 minutes left and then it locks up. It has 2 128 sticks of RAM and I've tried taking them out one at a time but I get the same result. Any help would be appreciated.
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