seires of beeps and nothing happens?

[mwilliwood]

well now that I am in the right spot!I have a t30 giving me a seires of beeps:one, three,three,one- when first turned on, never boots, stays blank.ffan runs.tried taking the memmory in and out and swapping around,tried with no memmory.the only change i got was no beeps when I moved the stick to the back slot-also tried a diffrent stick of 256 that I had. any ideas?any where to find a glossry of beep codes?kind of got the feeling going towards a bad MB but hoping!thanks in advance!

[qviri]

any where to find a glossry of beep codes?

In the HMM. http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... 2p1840.pdf

[RealBlackStuff]

Saw you posts in the other Forum.
Beeping 1-3-3-1 means there is no (or bad) RAM in your laptop.
If the fan is running, your CPU at least is still OK.
Borrow another (known good) 200-pin Sodimm PC2100 or PC2700, any RAM size, and see if that works in either slot.
If not, you'll most likely need another mobo.

[mwilliwood]

I kept playing with it and remebered someone saying when they held theres it would load,s held it place and worked,put a spacer behind the cover plate to push on the stick and it is up and running for now,so I know I read on another post where someone explained how to resolider the pins btu can not find it?can someone explain it again to me? thanks so much for saving this old thinkpad!

[Harryc]

Get some liquid soldering flux, a jewelers loupe, and a 40w very fine tipped soldering iron. There are 200 joints per slot to resolder....Read this -
http://www.omskakas.se/2007/08/memory-slot-updates.html