Posts by meekus

I played with a Y510 today at the local Office Despot. I'll admit I was quite underwhelmed with the whole experience. Not that me being a ThinkPad owner has affected my value judgement.

Are you inserting the SD card totally perpendicular into the reader slot and have you tried more than one SD card to rule out if it's the SD card that's got issues?

Does the replacement fan have a valid tach signal wire? If not that's probably why the laptop thinks the fan has failed--because it can't detect the fan's rotation speed. Other than that, the motherboard may be damaged, specifically the...

Quote: Originally Posted by ronald_adi Hi. Thanks for the reply. I dont have AOL so I cannot send a privat message. I have tried hitting the same keys, but bothing happens at all. I would like to install the utility...

If the volume dial is integrated into the motherboard then, yes, the entire motherboard will have to be changed. That's just a fact of life when it comes to laptops.

The 5205 will support up to 2x 512MB or 1x 1GB SODIMMs for 1GB absolute max. Any RAM configuration higher than 1GB will cause the laptop to crash on POST.

What's the condition of the battery itself? Have you tried swapping batteries to see if the problem is battery related or system board related?

Have you checked the actual system operating temperatures with a utility such as SpeedFan (my personal fave) or the like? Check the temperature graphs and note when the fan runs and see if there's a correlation. Also, how's your Power...

Currently 1680x1050 (15.4" WSXGA+ laptop) or 1600x1200 (15" UXGA laptop).

ThinkPad.