I read a lot of topic here and in other ThinkPad-forums and in many of them problems occoured after using PartitionMagic. Mostly, the IBM ACCESS button did not work properly. You can not access the Recovery-System. That problem did not alway occour, but sometimes. And as you can imagine the whole in...

Hi I have a X31 and I want to set it up on an empty harddisk. What I want to have is - the Rescue&Recovey-Partition (and the abillity to directly go there via the IBM ACCESS key at startup) for quickly restoring WinXP - WinXP - Linux (guess, it will be Debian or one of its derivates) I would like th...

yes it was !
the time between my call and getting the new battery was 23 hours !

Okay, here is how the story ended: I called IBMs german hotline yesterday morning at 9:30 am. A guy noticed my complain, told me it should be a case of warranty and a technical supporter will call me during the day. I had to leave the house at about 2pm and came back at about 6 pm (I forgot that, ot...

how much warranty dows IBM give for batteries ? I guess it is good to know that I bouht it in Germany. My guess is, 1 year warranty for battery, 3 for the X31.

Hello My IBM X31 has a Battery produced 03/2005. It had 44 loading cylces since then. At least, IBM Battery Tool says that. It also says that the battery is in good condition. Several days ago I recognized, that the percentages in battery mode go down quite normal from 100% to 17/18%. Than, it crash...

but you cann not install windows from it ?
that is what I would like to do

Hello If you have an IBM X31 and you have an external USB-drive (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD+RW) - can you please tell me what drive and USB-adapter you use ? I would like to buy an external device I am sure off, I can boot with. I tried an USB-IDE adapter a friend of mine gave me - it did not work (at lea...

not for me ...

Hi

I tried to access the IBM mailinglist. I tried this url but it does not work.
Can anybody tell me how I can access that mailing list ? The archiv was a very good help.

Thanks.

I used that tool to make my stick bootable (it is a Verbatim USB2.0 stick) As you described, it appears unter Hard Disks in BIOS but I can not boot from it. The X31 "hangs up" when I put the stick above the HDD and boot from it. Maybe this is, because the stick is not correctly formated or because i...

Hello Is it possible to boot from an USB stick with a X31 (BIOS 2.15) I have a bootable USB stick (at least I hope it is bootable) and I can not boot from it with my X31. Unfortunately, I am not able to test, if the problem comes from the stick as my other computer can not boot from USB at all. Back...