Hi All, Long time no post. Alwasys get good advice here. My ThinkPad T42 died about two weeks ago and I replaced it with a "newly used"...
Some of you may remember me from my previous thread "I think my laptop is about to die ". A sad and sordid storie of love and loss:( Alas, as...
It's dead, Jim.... As I right this, I'm sad to say my ThinkPad R40 is lying beside me on the living room floor. The most it seems to be able...
Just installed the CMOS battery and, as expected, not the answer. It still ocasionally locks. Interestingly, I would have thought that time...
I'm going to have to get some cleaner at some point; maybe see what I can do about disassembly of the chassis from the mainboard. Thing about...
Just another observation, the area around the pressure point, which is basically the left/front section of the chassis around is much warmer than...
So, I dreamt of my computer this morning…yes, I’m that crazy. I had it on and it wasn’t showing a clock time in the lower corner; I was...
So, thanks to Pete, I found it! I pulled the keyboard out from the chassis and disconnected from the mainboard. Cleaned things out the best I...
Ah, explains why the constant references.
Just curious, what's "FRU "?
Very interesting, nice find Pete. No, I didn't have this manual. Page 85 is the magic page with the ones before that showing the disassembly...
OkAY, just pulled out the HD and RAM; gave it all a good biologically initiated air cleaning....:-) Reboot, got to the DOS error screen,...
Well, that kinda stinks as I'm not sure about me pulling apart and reconnecting parts of a laptop. Though I built my buddies PC about a year ago....
Rockster2U, After reading this I'm going to replace the CMOS battery for sure. To my knowledge, it's never been replaced (at least I haven't...
Some updates for anyone still interested. I took the ThinkPad to CircuityCity and had a $50 dollar diagnostic run. Turns out one of the kids...
Been checking things on the web. Seems that error code 0260 refers to the CMOS backup battery and that it should be replaced. Could that be...
Yeah, I've got the Service and Troubleshooting Guide. As for ERROR 0260: System timer error it says to "Have the computer service "...
Well, win some/lose some. After blowing it myself with compressed air it did reboot and I was able to put a bund of files onto the Seagate...
Just trying to think ahead. If I need to buy a new laptop is there a way to pull old hard-drive files on this machine into a new one? I'm of...
Wow... We've gone from bad to VERY BAD, very quickly. No longer boots at all no matter what tricks I pull. Now all I get is 0211:...
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