Did it happen while you were typing? I sometimes get a beep when I am typing fast (or atleast attempting to accurately). It happens when I hit multiple keys at the same time. It happened the first day I got my T43 and a few other times thereafter because it's the first laptop I have ever owned; so, ...

I also find similar problem. Esp. when using the battery wiht maximum performance, the noise when you move mouse or the trackpoint. I have the same exact problem that you describe. I found a "fix" for it; however, it will severely decrease the battery life of the thinkpad. I went into the bios, the...

So after essentially living on these forums for the past week or so, just reading almost every topic, I've settled on a T43. On the IBM site, there are manager's picks that are basically heavily discounted T43's. I configured one with these specs: 2668A1U Pentium M Processor 750 (1.86GHz 2MB L2 533M...