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For Sale: Complete T40 with a serious issue - it rarely boots up. The fan and lights always come on when the power is pressed, but the machine rarely boots. I've seen it come on and stay on for hours. I was able to reboot successfully and hibernate. It booted again right after hibernation. However, it hasn't booted up in two days. No guarantee it will again.

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I do not believe it has the GPU issue because pressing on the GPU area has no effect and moving the machine when it turns on has no adverse affect. I swapped lots of parts and nothing changed.

Buy it for parts or fun. Please see changes to original configuration below. Overall cosmetic condition is not bad. Some shine on the keyboard and touchpad, a hairline crack in the palmrest. Very light scuffs on LCD, LCD is bright. Not perfect, certainly used, but looks OK, see pix!

$165 delivered in U.S. PayPal, cash or USPS money order accepted.


Product: ThinkPad T40 2373-RU1

Original description:
Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz processor (Banias)
512MB RAM --> now 256MB (1 stick)
80GB 4200rpm HDD --> now 40GB 4200 rpm HDD
14.1 SXGA+ (1400x1050) TFT LCD --> now 14.1 XGA (1024x768)
32MB ATI Radeon 9000 (w/long CPU/GPU fan)
16x10x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD --> now 8x DVD
Bluetooth/Modem (CDC) --> now Modem (CDC)
1Gb Ethernet (LOM)
802.11a/b Wireless (MPCI)
Secure Chip (TCPA)
UltraNav
6 cell battery --> may be original, worthless
WinXP Pro COA
IBM AC Adapter included
NO WARRANTY REMAINING


mod edit: pic warning added to subject (Thanks! underclocker)

IBM AC adapter added

underclocker wrote:For Sale: Complete T40 with a serious issue - it rarely boots up. The fan and lights always come on when the power is pressed, but the machine rarely boots. I've seen it come on and stay on for hours. I was able to reboot successfully and hibernate. It booted again right after hibernation. However, it hasn't booted up in two days. No guarantee it will again.[/b]

How interesting. This must be the Italian ThinkPad manufactured by Fiat. That would surely explain the quirky behavior.

How long have you had this wonderful example of ThinkPad technology?

Brad

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Not long, about one month, but I didn't work with it much. I picked it up as a parts machine for the original SXGA+ LCD, which is now on my T42. The original owner said that it just stopped booting up one day and that a computer tech at his school told him he needed a new motherboard, but didn't provide any other details. I think he was the original owner and he used it through college.

I tried swapping a bunch of parts, wifi adapter, drives, CDC card, memory, but the results didn't improve.

For the few times it did boot, I have no idea why it did. Even more shocking was that it ran fine while it was on and even rebooted when asked (via Windows restart) several times and even once after a hibernation (via the power button). I left it on one time for five hours with Windows media player shuffling/repeating the sample tunes on the drive. It played the whole time without errors.

Again, pressing on the GPU seems to have no effect. The motherboard actually seems like a newer replacement for two reasons; 1) it has the red epoxy on the corners of the GPU and other large chips, and 2) it has the spare, unused MAC address label still taped with the IBM orange/yellow tape to the memory slot on the bottom of the machine.

It's certainly a fine parts machine or project machine. While it is not sold, I keep looking for an R51 motherboard with the Intel video chipset, I think that one will fit and make a nice Frankenmachine - with no future GPU worries. In fact, this may be the solution to T4x GPU problems!

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