Screen Hinge

[zverg]

Anyone know if there's an FRU for the screen hinges (the aluminum pieces) for the T42? (14").

My hinges have always been nice and tight, even after over 2 years of pretty heavy use (frequently tossed around, used in class, on campus, at home, in car, etc).. then wouldn't you know it.. less than 24 hours after the battery recall, my hinge is broken. I think it may be related because of the location of the battery, which may lend it to be a load-bearing part of the structure of the laptop.

Yeah, I have the ThinkPad Protection plan through September 2007, but I've had terrible experiences with letting my laptop leave my hands. what should have been an overnight repair took a month.. then the laptop came back with the wrong motherboard (radeon 7500 instead of my 9600), no bluetooth module, and they even swiped my atheros A/B/G for the intel B/G.. and I run an A network .

So yeah.. if the part is really cheap, I may just buy it. If anyone has one laying around let me know.. or if you know the FRU that would be great.. I could call warranty support and beg them to just ship me the part instead of me giving them the laptop. I'll gladly install it myself, wouldn't take longer than 20 minutes of my time.

Argh as much as I hate Dell, since I'm Dell Warranty Parts Direct certified they don't question any parts orders I submit. I just put in the part name or part numbers on the web site, and the next morning when I get to work bam there they are. No questions asked, no bills.

[cmarti]

Anyone know if there's an FRU for the screen hinges (the aluminum pieces) for the T42? (14").

Yes!

FRU #91P8388

I think it may be related because of the location of the battery, which may lend it to be a load-bearing part of the structure of the laptop.

Related to the battery?

You must be joking!

[zverg]

Anyone know if there's an FRU for the screen hinges (the aluminum pieces) for the T42? (14").

Yes!

FRU #91P8388

I think it may be related because of the location of the battery, which may lend it to be a load-bearing part of the structure of the laptop.

Related to the battery?

You must be joking!

yeah I'm serious.. I mean the laptop does feel a bit flexible without the battery in there, moreso than it did before. Either way, I have ThinkPad Protection so it should be covered, I guess I'll just have to call them up and deal with them. I hope they'll just ship me the part.

Thanks for the part number. I ended up searching on the lenovo site and they did have a blown-up diagram of the lcd parts so I found the part number

[zverg]

oh and hey I see in your sig that you have the IBM BlueTooth III card.. so it's a direct swap for my bluetooth II/modem card? I'd like to step it up to bluetooth 2 +edr, not that my phone or other bluetooth things support it yet.

[cmarti]

oh and hey I see in your sig that you have the IBM BlueTooth III card.. so it's a direct swap for my bluetooth II/modem card? I'd like to step it up to bluetooth 2 +edr, not that my phone or other bluetooth things support it yet.

Yes,

I only installed it and run the software installer and it did the rest. No problems since.

Works perfect.

{Note} While on the road i use my cingular 8125 as a modem to connect to the internet using bluetooth.

[zverg]

oh and hey I see in your sig that you have the IBM BlueTooth III card.. so it's a direct swap for my bluetooth II/modem card? I'd like to step it up to bluetooth 2 +edr, not that my phone or other bluetooth things support it yet.

Yes,

I only installed it and run the software installer and it did the rest. No problems since.

Works perfect.

{Note} While on the road i use my cingular 8125 as a modem to connect to the internet using bluetooth.

that's my primary use of bluetooth on my thinkpad right now too. I used it with cingular and my Sony Ericsson K750.. gprs so it's painfully slow but it's usable enough for short periods of time.