We have lift-off Houston. T42P seems to be totally back to normal. Dunno what could have caused the no-Display issue after the Mobo replacement. I'll see if there's any recurrence.

Thanks to all who offered advice, especially Nick.

Cheers!

KGW

WOW! Further update! In the words of Ogri, (Google if you're too young or not a UK Biker), "She's a runner!" After assorted tinkering, it's booted, done some hardware install and is fully functional. Now I'm going to fully assemble and pray that this isn't a fluke. I'll update further later.... KGW

Update: So I've replaced the motherboard with one off ebay. Now, on reassembling (Including switching the CPU from board to board), I have no graphics whatsover, either on the LCD screen or on an externally attached monitor. The machine appears to be making all the right noises apart from having no ...

Hi Nick, That's very kind of you to offer loaned parts and also thanks for the info. I'm British originally but live in Bermuda so you'd have quite a way to send them though! :-) It's going to be quite a while until I get a chance to install my new Mobo but when I do I'll post the results. If the re...

Mmmmm....was afraid of that. Fortunately there's the exact mobo on ebay for $179 so I've just bought that. Over the past year I've now replaced the fan, the LCD and now the [censored] Mobo!! :-) Any step-by-step guides for replacing the Mobo? Any pitfalls I should know about? Incidentally, is there ...

Hi. CMOS battery is the one wrapped in yellow plastic toward front of motherboard, right? If so, tried that...same result

Mmmmm...Thanks but I've tried that I'm afraid. Same result.

Hmmmm....slight update. If I remove ALL the memory, including the system board mounted memory, I get a series of beeps on startup. But it DOES stay up in this case. No screen, nothing else but fan and lights......

Does this help anyone with a diagnosis?

Thanks in advance

Ken

Hi All, Anyone have any idea on the following? I left my T42P (working perfectly) in sleep mode at home while travelling for a month. On return, it wouldn't wake from sleep. So I forced power-off and tried to reboot. I get lights, fan-start, then immediate shut-down. I have to remove battery and pow...

Yaaaayy!!!! That was it!! Applied some Arctic Silver 5 to the processor and Heatsink after carefully cleaning off the old goop and I'm good!! Running perefectly with a CPU temp of around 65 degrees!! Thanks so myuch to all for their help! Could we stcky this under "The Importance of Thermal Grease o...

One last question before I go to sleep. When I boot into the BIOS config menu, it won't stay up for more than a few seconds. Yet it'll boot into safe mode with little or no problems (Both on battery power). Any ideas as to why this would be?

Off to a different store for me tomorrow then! Thanks guys, I'll keep you posted on results.

FBB

Wow. OK, thanks Rich. Now, all I've been able to get is some Arctic Silver stuff but that appears to be two-part adheisve. will this do the trick or should I look for some non-adheisive paste (grease0 which appears to be what was on there originally?

Many thanks!

FBB

Tnanks! Yes! I'm coming to the same conclusion! Using fan monitoring software, I notice the CPU temp get's into the 90's immediately before the shutdown. On battery, with the processor cool and not running much it'll run forever! I admit to bodging the paste and trying to re-use what was there. Clea...

Hi All, I received the dreaded Fan Error and replaced the fan on my T42P. Now it boots and shuts down again almost as if the battery is dead flat! It'll run for 5mins to 1 hour on a fully charged battery but will shut down in under a minute when the pwer is plugged in. As I say, the shutdown is of t...

Hi All, Been having monster problems with my T42, caused by windows crash. Got it kinda working but Access IBM now give me "Startup Interrupt Menu" not the normal Recovery. The partition is intact on the drive, how can I force my Thinkpad to boot to it so I can restore to factory settings? Many than...