Posts by lappyhappy

Brilliant, will give this a go... thanks!

I'm going to sell my Lenovo. Usually I would swap out the HD for a new one because I don't like people I don't know to have HD's that have had all my personal info on them. But with the Lenovo, the OS and all the drivers/etc are...

Quote: Originally Posted by benottomex I had to install Windows XP by my own and load everything from scratch. I did this same thing (wiped the ibm partition and started from scratch w/ a fresh copy of...

You know the green volume meter that appears when you use the volume controls on the thinkpad? I can't get it to go away. It was working fine until I installed my new skype phone. Another problem that is occuring is that I now have two...

Quote: Originally Posted by pyrophite I didnt want to read all of this, but how did people get their stuff back? I got scammed by him and after months of battling i gave up, i know i shouldnt have, but after contacting...

I've been EXTREMELY pleased with my IBM X31 with its 12" screen, awesome keyboard, battery life, solid construction, etc... I'm about to upgrade computers and am considering other options. I'd like to move to something smaller if...

I think I know what happened.... I had an external harddrive plugged in USB. Although it officially was safely removed, I bet it f'd things up because the external harddrive has its own power supply. So it must've shocked the crap out of...

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried both and nothing.... Also tried troubleshooting w/ the methods on the IBM website - they had me take everything out and put it back in. Not sure what they would do but...? Still not powering on, and...

I have an IBM X31 w/ docking station. I pushed the blue button on front of the docking station to undock it, waited for it to do its thing, then when I pulled the latch to pop out the laptop, the laptop shut off! Now it won't come back...

This NEVER works right for me and if I do get it working then it magically changes out of the blue after me doing nothing. I'm running an x31 with a Dell 2001FP on the external. I want the x31 screen off and just use the Dell for my...