[ltp] 390E Generic questions unrelated to salmon

[Helen Borrie]

At 12:28 PM 29/08/2005 -0400, Bert Haskins wrote:


>Helen Borrie wrote:
>
>>Hello 390E owners,
>>
>>Please, would someone tell me what the slider at the very top of the 
>>keyboard console is for?  It is located to the right of the indicator 
>>LEDs for battery and suspend mode.
>
>It is to control lcd brightness.

Oh.  Never thot o' that.

>If it does not make any difference on your machine, the sliding button has 
>come up off of the
>button on the potentiometer or the 'pot' is broken.
>This is not a really rare occurrence on the 390s.
>Remember that you can set the brightness range in the F1 options.

Hmm, no, I don't know these things.  I have a the PDF userguide from the 
Lenovo site, but it largely says "refer to the Online Help".  Umm.


>>How does one get out of Suspend mode?  My machine has a habit of going 
>>into suspend when it gets a bit warm...
>
>I have never seen this on any of my 390s.
>Is the fan working?
>You should hear it startup and run for a short time when the 390 is 
>booting up.
>It is not uncommon for the fan blades to me so full of !@#$ that the fan 
>will not work well.

OK.  This is possible.  The fan does run, though it is quiet enough that 
only a wet finger by the vent determines it.

>>.all I can do at the moment is switch it off, resulting in the need for a 
>>fs check when it's rebooted.  My "production" notebook (a 1.5 GHz 
>>Highlander) comes out of suspend with a Fn sequence (the same sequence 
>>that can be used to put it into suspend) but that doesn't seem to work 
>>with the 390E.
>
>Tapping the Fn key works for me.

OK.

>Is the bottom of the 390 really warm when it shuts down?

Quite warm - "hand-hot", I would say, about 60 deg Celcius.

>If so, the fan system is not working properly.
>If not the heat sink system is not working properly or you have a heat 
>sensitive part... cpu?
>Once again, I have never seen one of these shutdown or misbehave due to 
>heat and I doubt if
>any one has worked their machine harder than I have.
>The bottom of the laptop does get warm enough to be uncomfortable on my 
>lap so I do
>often put something between  the unit and my legs.
>FWIW On a few of my 390X boxes I have swapped out the original MMC-2 cpu unit
>for a 600... 750.
>I have not been able to run at the higher clock speed because of lack of 
>support in the bios
>but the decrease in heat and the longer battery life are both very! 
>noticeable and
>well worth the cost and effort of making the swap.

Thanks for the tip.  For the purpose of poking around inside the case, do 
you know of a downloadable document or website where I can find the layout 
and, preferably, instructions for getting into it?  I'm no newbie to 
building/modding PCs, but I haven't done a laptop before.

Thanks again, Bert!

Helen