[ltp] T30 Motherboard replacement

[Seth Kulick]

Upon brining my T30 out of suspend this morning (it was in Linux), it 
totally flaked out, with the display getting garbled and then becoming 
completely unreadable.  After waiting a while, rebooting into either XP or 
Linux had the same effect - would be okay for about a minute, and then 
disintegrate.  Hooking it up to an external monitor showed the same thing 
on the monitor.  I just talked to an IBM rep, and they're sending somebody 
out tomorrow for on-site repair, with a replacement motherboard.  Hopefully 
that will take care of it, and I won't need to ship it off for a week.
And yeah, it has 512 but was only reading 256 - I hadn't actually noticed
until last week, after reading the comments on here.  I should have moved
faster on taking care of it.

My T30 is setup as a dualboot, with C:\BOOT.INI modified to allow booting
into Linux - Redhat 8.0. I'm hoping that everything will continue to work
fine after the motherboard replacement, but I'm wondering if there's anything
I should be concerned about.  They're saying that as part of the motherboard
replacement the bios will be updated from 1.01 (5/02) to 2.06 - the major
difference being better thermal control.  Is that anything that could cause
problems for 8.0, or am I going to have to reinstall it?


On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:39:06PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Bill Barnard <bill@barnard-engineering.com> writes:
> 
> > I have a T30 which has been running Linux very nicely for a couple years
> > now. It probably needs a system board repair or replacement because it
> > no longer recognizes the second 256 MB memory module I bought for it.
> > (Both modules test good by the slot swapping method.)
> 
> For what it's worth, you're probably correct on the diagnosis
> because we've had three T30s in my office here that have had the
> same problem.  One of them has had three motherboard replacements
> for this and related problems.  T30s are crap for reliability.
> -- 
> Ben Pfaff 
> email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
> web: http://benpfaff.org
> 
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