[ltp] T30 Motherboard replacement

[Aaron Mulder]

	Unrelated to Linux, but you might want to make sure they reprogram
the serial number into the BIOS.  Our T30 had both the bottom cover (with
serial number sticker) and motherboard (with BIOS) replaced, so we had a
TON of trouble digging up the serial number the next time it needed
service.  It's had no trouble accomodating the newer boards (two
replacements), though it's running Red Hat 9.

Aaron

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Seth Kulick wrote:
> 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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