x30 woes...

[djames]

hey all,

I have a x30 and for the life of me im hoping to get some guidance on some of the issues i have.

1st: i have updated to the latets BIOS (using the little widget on the ibm support page) and also all other hardware bios utilities.

I still cannot close the lid and force the machine to sleep, i mean what else do i have to do? Is there a way to totally flush the bios and start again?

2nd: i purchased a IBM wireless card for the laptop and installed. Installation was ok and the card works, but when you boot the laptop up, you get a 10 second delay and hen a error message saying there is one r more ethernet devices installed, press esc to continue or f1 to go into the bios.

Has any other X30 owners experienced the above issues?

Thanks

[bcoville]

I purchased what I think is a refurbished X30 last month. Has a sticker on the bottom "Used Equipment". Model 267342U. The BIOS is 1KET46WW (1.07) 07/02/2004.

It goes into Standby with FN-F4 and recovers with FN. A couple of times I have closed the screen by mistake and it did not go into standby. But after reading your msg, I tried it again and it did work properly.

My Thinkpad experience is Models 701 and 570 so I have no experience with WinXP until now. The choices that can be made in the Power section of Control panel are confusing to me.

[pphilipko]

Use battery maximizer and adjust the settings to "When closing lid, standby". I think that may solve the problem