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Never ending problems with "T500" supermachine....
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:24 am
by WarhawkCZ
Hello.
I've got another problem with my fresh laptop T500. LCD displays randomly error message, when I leave laptop and it go to system standby.
1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in - Power off and remove the miniPCI network card.
Is there any other solution than trash can ?
Thank you
Jiri
Czech Republic
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:39 am
by Zender
And I guess you haven't changed anything inside the machine? I remember one person who ordered Lenovo-branded WWAN card for his ThinkPad (*61 series I think?), and it was whitelisted in his machine's BIOS, but still it would sometimes randomly generate this message.
He had hard time explaining it to Lenovo and eventually used patched BIOS with wireless card whitelisting removed. Nevertheless still you probably should try asking service center about it.
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:43 am
by Marin85
I believe there is another solution than just throwing it in the trash can
Where did you buy your ThinkPad? I´m asking this because the 1802 error might simply say what the problem is in fact. For a reference see
T6x BIOS device whitelist (error 1802/1804) [solved], it is definitely no solution for your case (yet), but at least it is a good description of what error 1802 is.
EDIT: Zender replied in the mean time
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:54 am
by WarhawkCZ
I bought it in USA this summer. Few first weeks everythink works perfect, but these days I've got many different problems
(Synaptics goes down after reboot, presentation director ranodmly mix icons on desktop when I set another profile, Vista 64 bit runs slowly and has slowly response than my old Asus with sempron and Win XP, This error message and lot of funny stuff like this).
I think, the best solution will be ask in service center. We will see at monday what they says.
Thank you Gentlemans.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:46 am
by Marin85
From what you describe the best solution to your problems seems to be a clean install of Vista x64, i.e. your problems are software-related, not hardware-related. In fact, the latest Lenovo software (that with the new fancy Vista outfit) is known to be buggy sometimes. However, there are older versions which are known to be rock solid (I´m running some of them under Vista x64 without problems). Also, if you don´t need some piece of software, the best thing you can do about it is to get rid of it.