[ltp] lm sensors

[Norman Levin]

And where may this Hardware Maintenance diskette be found?
norm

John Morris wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 phil@netroedge.com wrote:
>> 
>>> There is also a link on that page to the hardware maintenance manual
>>> which talks about the unit serial number, as well as a recovery
>>> process (has anyone tried it?).  See page 20 (Acrobat reader calls
>>> it page 26).  I also heard of hitting 'ESC' at the error message to
>>> fix it and continue the boot process... that sounds too easy,
>>> though. 
>> 
>> Yup, at least on a 570E, not on a 600.  Toasted mine on day 2 after
>> getting it.  After finding the ESC trick on my own I went online,
>> searched on the error message and found out what I'd done to my new
>> beastie.  Well I was NOT sending it back so soon after getting it
>> without a fight so I started digging hard.  Found a reference in the
>> mailing list's archives about the Maint Disk.  Bugging IBM was a
>> waste of time but someone on this list pointed me to a spot on IBM's
>> ftp site close enough I got the maint disk and it mostly fixed my
>> machine.  The machine ID stuff on the BIOS screen isn't the same but
>> who cares. 
>> 
>> Since then a couple of people haev found my thread in the list
>> archive and I have passed on the disk to them with to good effect. 
>> And for a giggle, here is what I got when I posted the solution on
>> IBM's web based support forums:
>> 
>>> Two of your posts in the ThinkPad 570 Discussion Forums have been
>>> removed because they contained confidential IBM information
>>> concerning IBM products.  I am pleased that you find the Discussion
>>> Forums to be a convenient area to communicate with other ThinkPad
>>> owners, but please refrain from posting information concerning
>>> Hardware Maintenance Diskettes in the future.
>> 
>> Guess that says it all about IBM's concern for us.
>> 
>> Someone else was looking for volunteers for testing.  Since mine has
>> already had the worst done to it I guess there is little risk in
>> experimenting on it.  It has been a year or two now of this problem,
>> about time it got fixed.
>> 
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