So what is meant by loader? Can you give an example?
MS

Or does "Loader" mean bootloader like pLoP or Grub?
Mark S
Mt. View, Ca

Can a T400 be converted to IPS/FlexView screen and if not why not?
thanks
Mark S.
Mt. View, Ca

Friday the 13 luck this time, in repairing this motherboard I had accidentally severed the VCC+ line to the Texas Instrument battery charger chip. One additional wire jumper later and now I have all green lights, battery is charging happily :mrgreen: Only took a year to fix- LOL but I had other fish...

Been working on this T400 MB for about a year off and on, as a challenge. Never worked on a ThinkPad before. No power, turned out to be an internal board short at the back edge probably caused by battery corrosives. Couple of 0.5 amp fuses blown. Careful X-acto work and a couple jumper wires and I j...

Do all T400s have this "feature"? Lenovo considers it that, however it makes testing a bare motherboard difficult since both a decent battery and functional board charging system seem to be necessary to boot into the setup menu, and both of those are suspect in my case; the board shuts itself off sh...

I read some other posts and got most of my answers: Minimum required is MB, keyboard, speaker. Should get 1-3-3-1 beep code. VGA out should work. According to Arctic silver, CPU can be damaged in as little as 10 sec without some type of heatsink. Good to know, I'm glad I didn't rush in and damage it...

I am testing a T400 motherboard which I have (I think) successfully repaired. Can I power it up with only the keyboard attached? Will the external vga connector be live? Do I need the ram installed to post? Also, can the cpu and graphics chips be run without heatsinks for a very short time, maybe 15...

How did OP get a free Windows 7 by modding the BIOS? That's a neat trick
Mark S.
Mt. View, Ca

By the way I had to eliminate the "dash" from the serial number before Lenovo would accept it.
Little tidbit of info that might help someone else-
Mark Silva

Thanks guys, I was able to follow Ray's advice and look up the buildlist from Lenovo, then look up the screen type in the hardware manual. It is an LED type. Strangely though I was unable to find the FRU number from the motherboard (the one on the 1st label of the three under the ram slots) listed i...

My T400 is a 7417-CTO, with a 63Y1189 mainboard. Is it LED or CCFL backlight? Secondly, if I need to replace mainboard do I need to use that specific FRU# ? I thought perhaps the boards are specific for display type...?
Thanks
Mark
Mt. View, Ca

Check out PuppyLinux; it runs great on older hardware and has a very small file size. I found Mint to be somewhat boated for my needs-
Mark S.

I'm troubleshooting a dead T-400 and was wondering if a good board will normally boot with only an external monitor connected? Assuming I have some memory installed, keyboard connected and a good source of power. I wanted to eliminate the LCD and cable as a possible source of trouble that's why I'm ...