Is my T60 motherboard dying?

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vinuneuro · #1 Post by **vinuneuro** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:13 am

During boot up, the scrolling thing that goes from left to right under the MS XP logo will just freeze. Or it'll actually finish booting up and once at the desktop the cursor will freeze in place or the screen goes blank. Model is 2007-64U.

dr_st · #2 Post by **dr_st** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:16 am

Indeed such behavior is typical for a motherboard problem. But it could also be a different part (RAM, HD).

Does it ever boot properly? If so, does it continue functioning after?

vinuneuro · #3 Post by **vinuneuro** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:20 am

Yea sometimes it finishes booting up and will make it to the desktop. After that, sometimes the cursor gets frozen, or the screen just turns off. To make things a little complicated, the ram is 1 month old, and the hard drive is a few days old. But those wouldn't cause the screen to turn off right?

vinuneuro · #4 Post by **vinuneuro** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:40 am

I haven't sent the RMA'd WD hdd back yet so I stuck that in and it was still happening.

Pulled the 2gb of Corsair ram I added, and it's now working properly. So now I'm not sure not sure if it's the ram or an intermittent mb problem.

#5 Post by **Harryc** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:45 am

My money is on the RAM being defective or incompatible. The T6X series has some solid RAM slots. I don't recall seeing a failure in that area on a T60 reported here or elsewhere. There were definately some issues with RAM compatibility on that model though, particularly with the Value lines of Kingston and Corsair.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 61&start=0
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 8&start=30

vinuneuro · #6 Post by **vinuneuro** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:50 am

If it was a compatibility issue, the problems would've been there from the getgo right? This ram has been in for a month now. Maybe it's just defective.

#7 Post by **Harryc** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:56 am

Well, Corsair has a lifetime warranty, so you have nothing to lose to RMA it for another stick.

vinuneuro · #8 Post by **vinuneuro** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:41 am

It's happening with the Corsair ram out now too. So I think it might just be a general MB failure.

EAkamai · #9 Post by **EAkamai** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:56 pm

Aloha!

I tend to agree with Harry. However,
Before i would think about replacing or repair, i would run some diagnostics. But the first thing to do is boot into safe mode and see if it's still flaky. Try safe mode with networking and see how much you can do with it. Then you should use the DOS diagnostics. It's been eons since i've used anything from ibm/len since i have my own really high end stuff. But I would think PC Doctor is more than enough to let you know if anything is flaky hardware wise. You can also use Memtest86 which works pretty decent. memtest86.com

Whatever you do, make sure you use diags outside of win for better results.

Good Luck!

vinuneuro · #10 Post by **vinuneuro** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:11 pm

I'm fairly certain it's the MB because it's locking up with two difference hard drives and with the Corsair memory not installed.

vinuneuro · #11 Post by **vinuneuro** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:29 pm

It's still got 1yr warranty left fwiw.

Temetka · #12 Post by **Temetka** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:11 pm

Well since it is under warranty, send it in.

istudio · #13 Post by **istudio** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:49 am

why not try booting bartPE and see if it's ok... or just burn a Windows Memory Test (WMD) CD and do extensive test on your corsair.

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