t42 replaces t40, some problems...

[harbong]

hello once again...

I had a t40 which began to give me the dreaded 4 beep "system board failure" symptoms, and purchased a t42 on ebay for the new school semester. All is going fine with the new computer except for a few hiccups that a quick search could not solve, and I was wondering if the forum could help me out with them...

[a] The big problem: my wireless seems to be dropping connections intermittently. I can connect to wireless networks flawlessly, and gets on the internet right away...then, randomly, I get "page load error" in firefox, across however many tabs I run at the moment. Within a minute or so, refreshing all of them returns the intended pages. Just getting to this page (edit:and posting this!) I had a problem and took a refresh to load. It happens too often to just ignore.
It has happened on multiple routers. I have the most recent driver. My t42 has the IBM 11bg chip, and a possible sollution in the the next week could be to try the Intel chip I installed in my t40 (which had no problems). however, it's in another zip code at the moment. any other solutions?

Also, I have no OSD. Not essential, but even in the thinkpad configuration menu, I click OSD settings and nothing comes up...is there a file I need to download to restore this?

[c] I immediately installed the glorious tpfancontrol program, and created shortcut to it in startup, however it seems like every 1/5 times I get an error on startup saying it cannot find the WinIO file. Is there a better way to launch the program at startup? I have version .18b, maybe a earlier stable release?

for reference, I have a T42 2373-JTU
specs: P M 735, 512MB RAM, 40GB 5400rpm HDD, 14.1 XGA(1024x768) TFT LCD, 32MB ATI Radeon 7500, 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD, IBM 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI), Modem(CDC), 1Gb Ethernet(LOM), UltraNav, Secure Chip, 6 cell Li-Ion battery, WinXP Pro

Thanks for all your past help, and hopefully future solutions!

[fasterbybike]

Also, I have no OSD. Not essential, but even in the thinkpad configuration menu, I click OSD settings and nothing comes up...is there a file I need to download to restore this?

You need the hotkey drivers for this.

[c] I immediately installed the glorious tpfancontrol program, and created shortcut to it in startup, however it seems like every 1/5 times I get an error on startup saying it cannot find the WinIO file. Is there a better way to launch the program at startup? I have version .18b, maybe a earlier stable release?

Install it as a service and you'll have no problems.

[Harryc]

a.) control panel / system / hardware / device manager and select the driver for the wireless card. On the Advanced tab there is a setting for the Power Save mode. Change it to highest performance.

[harbong]

You need the hotkey drivers for this.


Install it as a service and you'll have no problems.

I installed the hotkey drivers, and still nothing...do I need to uninstall the previous ones? I can't find them in add/remove.

and I am unfamiliar with installing a service, could you give me assistance with that procedure? I'm sure it's easy.