The microsoft link and pre-order pages there and on Amazon didn't explain the difference between full and upgrade. I just bought a used T60p. It has an XP Home COA sticker on the bottom, and came with home made T60p XP Pro recovery CDs (created by Thinkvantage, I think). Do I qualify for purchasing ...

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Your right. I got home and found that I was mixing up the voltages of my old i-series adapter and the A31 adapter. Anyway, I have one coming, so I'll modify the original post.

The cord got pulled out sideways from my laptop last month and it bent the plug. It slowly died with more flexing and is no longer any good. (Too bad I didn't check it with a multimeter before disassembling my A31 down to the motherboard...) Anyone have a spare? I'm computerless at the moment (typin...

You missed the part about the non-availability of the $150 job. I went with the only repair service that I could find that was actually available. I didn't see any other repair service suggestions here or elsewhere on-line. I didn't give them the opportunity to make it right, so I'm not going to bla...

Well, it's less than the $150 that jamiphar would have charged. Maybe he would have done a better job, but like I said, I couldn't get a response from him in over several months. Bad service (maybe some bad luck too?) is better than no service - unless you think it's better to use a desklamp over th...

Flexview screens are made by Hyundai and have a marking BOE/Hydis (or similar) on them somewhere. How much does Moniserve charge? My Flexview was marked IDTech, made in Japan, and the UL Certification number matches that of "CMO Japan LTD". Google search result says: "International Display Technolo...

I'm the original poster... I ended up sending my screen to Moniserv to get the backlight replaced, and that fixed the problem. However, I noticed spots in the screen after I got it back. I ended up taking apart the screen in an effort to clean it. Turned out to be spotting on the silvery reflector a...

You should send it to jamiphar to get fixed. Someone suggested contacting this dude in my thread "A31 Backlight LCD not working", also. I found his ad in the marketplace forum. As I noted in my thread, he didn't respond to my PM or email requests back in July (PM and email request separated by abou...

OK, I'm still trying to fix this problem. I was using an external CRT monitor until early July when the CRT died. Since then, I've been shining a desk lamp at the screen, which is really annoying and obviously doesn't work very well. :( I don't think I should open the main body of the computer to ch...

If I'm getting an open circuit voltage of about zero at the connector of the inverter where the screen plugs in, can I assume that the CCFL is probably not causing the problem? Just want to confirm that I need to open up the computer to check the fuses.

I read through the first third of the Hardware Maintenance Manual and it made me think of two things: 1) Page 58 "LCD-related symptoms" states that horizontal or vertical lines displayed on LCD points to a LCD assembly problem. I should have noted in my first post that the flickering was a horizonta...

It could be any of three items, CCF, inverter and a fuse on the MB. The non-IPS inverter should have worked as you indicated. Now you should try a different panel or check out the fuses (I don't know which one). I posted a fuse map in this thread. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=60211 Th...

The backlight on my A31 with the 15" SXGA IPS screen stopped working and I am seeking some advice about how to fix it. For about two weeks before it blacked out completely, the screen gradually flickered more and more, became dimmer, and blacked out temporarily once (revived when I restarted the com...