Replacing system board worked. Yay! Thank you, RealBlackStuff! In celebration I had about 4 Guinness beers.

Thanks, RBS. I have a T9300. Found and bought a 42W7875. So we'll see!

...AND! I just noticed you mention Guinness as the Real black stuff... HA! My choice also!

Trey

Thank you, RBS! So I assume I need to determine if I have a Merom or Penryn CPU?

Trey

I have a T61 6459-CTO on which I suspect a bad NVidia GPU. Manufacture date is 08/06. It will not POST. No beeps. No nada. I want to replace the system board to see if this fixes it. Looking in the HMM I see only 2 FRU numbers with the Intel video chip - 42W7651 and 48W7875, both of which do not inc...

W710 4323-CTO, Q820m, NVidia Quadro FX 2800m. User reports that video will start to "smear green" and eventually the smear grows to an unviewable state. See the images to get an idea of what I'm talking about: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30575188@N04/9349854163/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/3057518...

FIXED: changed adapter's link speed & duplex from Auto-detect to 100full. Go figure....

Thanks to all repliers. I've just finished restoring this W701 to factory default. The NIC problem still exists. Funny thing, it reports as connected, the link and activity LEDs flash but no traffic passes. Checked to make sure that the Client for Microsoft Networks was enabled on the NIC. Will try ...

A friend's W701 (4323-CTO) will appear to make a connection via it's ethernet port but no traffic passes. I'm of the opinion that replacing the system board is the best course of action. Any other advice? Looking in the HMM for the correct FRU for the system board I see TPM and non-TPM models. What ...

Thanks, guys! My next post will be about the compatibility of system boards WHEN YOUR FRU TAG IS MISSING!

Cannot find my exact Machine Type in the HMM - I don't find the AQ8. Anyone know if this is the widescreen model? How do you tell.

Thanks!

Yep, a Bluetooth card was not in the W520. I ordered one from eBay and installed it. Then turned Bluetooth on via Fn+F5 then Win7 installed some generic drivers upon first boot. After downloading and installing the Lenovo drivers...All Good!

I cannot believe that my boss' W520 does not have Bluetooth. I assumed all laptops would have Bluetooth by now, especially one built in sep '11. Anyway.... looking at the HMM I see two FRU's for Bluetooth daughter cards: 60Y3271 and 60Y3275. Anyone know the difference in these two FRU's? Can I just ...

Never mind, it all works fine after a reboot.

The boss's W520... a consultant reinstalled Win7Pro64 after numerous Acrobat X/iTunes/Outlook problems. Those problems have gone away but now we're trying to get his broadband card activated/working again. Originally (before OS reinstall) we were successful in transferring his Verizon account to thi...

Thank you, HarryC. We'll try that.

One of my users spilled water on his T61 keyboard. We disassembled it and dried it out and it wasn't very wet at all, mostly under the LH side of the palm rest. After re-assembly the TP would not turn on. Left it overnight. Turns on now and boots up! Yea! But the keyboard is acting like the Fn key i...

My old trusty TP 240 has not been turned on in a couple of years. When I turn it on now, it has no mouse cursor on the screen and the Trackpoint is shown in Device Manager as IBM PS/2 Trackpoint with an exclamation point. I'm using Win2K Pro. The properties say "The device is not working because Win...

The CD's were obtained from IBM. The number 1 CD does not seem to be bootable so I guess I need the Rescue and Recovery CD for the G41. Now let me schedule an hour on the phone with IBM....

Thanks for the replies....

I have the 6 Product recovery CDs from IBM (p/n 39K7220). I assumed disc 1 was bootable, but not so....Is there a separate bootable CD that I'm missing?

Thanks!