Thank you for your message.

I think it is the "loose GPU" phenomena.

If i can get the screen to come on is it worth keeping the laptop ON indefinately?

Is there anyone in London, England who is able to perform the reflow

Recently I have been having 2 major problems with my t40. 1) When powering on - the screen remains black. not been able to test with an external monitor yet but think that it is a screen problem. i have to hold power button to turn off and keep retrying to get the screen on. 2) once i have the scree...

Tried a new power supply with no success.

Thinking of changing the cmos battery.

on ebay.co.uk they are selling for about £8 (which converts to $15) seems a bit pricey.

any ideas where i can 1 cheaper.

I think my dad kept the laptop plugged in for about 1 month with only minimal usage.

thinking about changing the cmos battery as it could be a quick win.

Vlyne, Do you mean update the bios? I've read a number of these posts in search for a cure and hopes turn to despair when one reads of someone trying to sell 60 dead T20 motherboards on Ebay for $1 each! Obviously not an easy problem. One potential problem that a colleague has come across is with fa...

Its Stopped Working Again!!!

Tried the above technique without success.

What else can we do?

a big thanks.

Amazing - that actually works.
Anyone tell me how?

have passed the msg on.
will let u know if it works

thanks for trying

Gave my dad a T21 that was in good working order a few weeks ago. Now he tells me that it won't turn on. I have told him to take battery out and check power supply. The Green power light shows when the power lead is connected but the power button does not do anything. He is not using this with a doc...

Wife & I share a t40. want to keep everything separate. Currently using 2 win xp accounts. Was thinking about purchasing a 2nd Hard Drive UltraBay Slim. IBM FPU: 62P4553 http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/IBMOP433?speedtrapid=shopping.com&lead=shopping.com that I could put a new HD in and keep all m...

Mine was easy to find - and this was the first time i have opened up a laptop




antennae in the upgradable units are tucked away under the keyboard surround

Installed the Cisco card without a problem. The T40 had the aerial antenae in place already. Windows XP recognised it and was running on wireless straight away. Only connects at 11Mbps but I think that is sufficient for general web browsing at home. Unless anyone can persuade me to go for a faster c...

sorry for all the questions - hopefully this will be useful to someone else as well.
Has anyone any opinions on the:
Cisco AIR-MPI350 Wireless LAN MiniPCI Adapter


http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ ... 3301.shtml

will my t40 have an aeriel built in?
will this card work in most laptops?

what about this one.
in the reviews - 1 guy says he got it working?
is this not possible?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=83498

Will this card work
http://snipurl.com/thinkpadwireless

cool

I have a T21 with 384Mb Ram, 20Gb Hd.
What is the best OS for general use - mainly internet.
Cheers.

I have a T21 with a screen that has stopped working. Also the battery doesnot hold the charge for more than a few minutes. The laptop works fine connected to power supply and using external monitor. I want to replace the lcd cable. ebay link: http://snipurl.com/nz11 Do you think this will work? I ha...

Want to upgrade my HD in T21 - currently only 18gb
Have acquired a 40gb Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/dis ... 21,00.html

Is this suitable?
How do I remove original HD and fit New HD.

Thanks in advance.

Just installed Windows XP on my t21 but I think it was a US version and I am in the UK. So i went to regions setting in control panel and set it to UK/English but the £key is not working and the @sign is now shift+2 and the " is now where the @ sign should be how can i get this back to normal thank ...

Recently having problems with the monitor.
Sometimes the screen goes really weak and I can hardly make out what is going on. Its like there is no back light.
Any ideas?
Normally open and close the monitor and gently whack it!

whats going on
what can i do

all help much appreciated