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T40 common death?

post #1 of 5
10/5/06 at 12:32am
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Hello, I work for a company where we use Thinkpads almost exclusively, and we have alot of the T40s come back with the same problem basically. Sometimes the video will boot, sometimes not. Often it will freeze in the middle of windows. If we leave the laptop for a good amount of time, it's fine for a half hour or so, but eventually it just gets to that same no boot stage. Anyone have any experience with this?

I just swapped out the video inverter on one with a known good inverter, and worked great for about 30 minutes, was untouchable, rebooted in every way possible... but eventually kicked the bucket...

Sounds to me like something overheating? Or power supply internally? Is this the right forum for that? I am experienced with desktop troubleshooting, but these laptop are FRUSTRATING! I have like 6 half working T40s, and I'd like to get at what the root of this problem is...

Thanks, Bill
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post #2 of 5
10/5/06 at 11:55pm
Unfortunately, the T40s had some system board issues. Personally, I think that they are subrelated to flexing of the systemboard.
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post #3 of 5
10/6/06 at 12:02am
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Thanks for the reply. I think I am finding that out pretty quickly. We have maybe 6 or so dead laptops with the same similar problems. I have one which the video gets garbled when you flex the board, but now it seems fine. Certainly the video card is suspect, either the soldering, or maybe just getting too hot and freezing up... would be nice to find out how to underclock that video card...
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post #4 of 5
10/6/06 at 2:46pm
Hello,

You may want to try forum.thinkpads.com for more replies.

-Tom
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post #5 of 5
10/7/06 at 6:41am
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Originally Posted by tommms
Hello,

You may want to try forum.thinkpads.com for more replies.

-Tom

yeah, that is a dedicated forum for thinkpad owners.
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