Hello all, I'm looking to buy an A31p because my venerable, beloved A31 is starting to give me problems (it freezes randomly and the only option is to hold down the power button to reboot. Sometimes on boot the ThinkPad bios screen does not show up, it just stays black with nothing on the screen.) A...

I have a similar problem with the Lenovo installer. It won't install the ThinkPad Configuration utility. The download completes, but the automatic install does not work. I can try to manually install it, but after choosing the language, it shows a progress bar, gets about 75% done, then just silentl...

I'm curious about this too. I have an A31 2652-D4U 1.6 GHz P4m which runs hot generally (I keep hard drives in both the left and right bays, using it as an appletalk / samba fileserver on fedora core 4.) Since I've been running the machine 24x7 for the past three or four years or so, it would usuall...

I've got a ThinkPad A31 2562-D4U (very happy with it) and have recently purchased a cardbus 2 USB2 / 2 FireWire port card. (Q-stor brand, works very well with Win XPSP2 and more importantly linux, although the latest Fedora Core 4 kernel has some isssues that a kernel downgrade fixes...) The firewir...