I dug myself up a ThinkPad R31 off eBay because I was less than thrilled with the hardware "feel" of a Dell Inspiron I purchased, and had heard (from where I cannot recall) that IBM laptop hardware was simply superior. However, I asked a tech where I work for his opinion, and he plunked for Dell wit...

Thane_Bitter, Hi Glenn, I am not familiar with that specific error but it really sounds like the built-in LAN has failed on your R31 :( unfortunately the only way to repair this (assuming it's dead) is to replace the motherboard (system planar) which would be rather expensive. Thane OK, I am explori...

Hi All - Some months ago I picked up a used R31. Despite a couple of cosmetic blemishes (two pale spots on the LCD and a much abused space-bar) I was really pleased with it and set to turning it into my "Laptop of Death." Currently I have four OSs installed on it: the original Win2K, Slackware Linux...