Does anyone know how the memory upgrade on this IBM T42 2378-FZU works ? We opened the compartment on the back of the laptop and noticed there was no SDRAM or SO DIMM installed. That is where the manual indicated that you will need to remove the keyboard on the back in order to upgrade the memory. F...

Thanks to all. I just wanted to update this thread on my progress. I forgot to mention that FF 4.0 was BSOD also every time I would start it up. The crash dump file would again indicate that the ibmfilter.sys was at fault. So what I did was following the link for the threads found by rkawakami sugge...

Thanks for the reply to everyone. I ran all hardware test last night and all passed with no fails. Thanks again rkawakami for the links provided. What I have decided to do is to uninstall the Rescue and Recovery software to see if the BSOD disappears. Then I will try reinstalling the software to see...

Suspect # 1 : hard drive Suspect # 2: RAM Download and burn (as an ISO bootable file) a copy of PC Doctor for DOS from here: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/1ety48ww.exe Boot from it. Run memoryand hard drive tests for starters and see where that gets you. At the moment I'm r...

Welcome to the forum! Sorry to learn it's because of your having trouble... I'm not really familiar with the BSOD error you're experiencing, but if you have the Rescue & Recovery partition on you ThinkPad, boot into that by pressing F11 at the boot splash, and run PC Doctor. That should let you kno...

We have an older IBM thinkpad T42 Type 2378 FZU and it is constantly Blue Screening with the following code. 00000050 (0xFE64F000, 0x00000000, 0x804E7428, 0x00000000) just about anytime when running virus updates or starting firefox or just at random. We have used Windbg to determine which file is c...