[ltp] T41: garbled screen

Alexander Gran linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 8 Jan 2005 22:59:12 +0100


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Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 18:00 schrieb Hamish Marson:
> Hmm... Does you thinkpad screen go blank for no reason as well? Mine
> did... And I was really annoyed that I had to remove all power, remove
> the battery, then put it all back to get it working sometimes...
> Eventually I tracked it down to a hardware fault. if I pressed down
> (Reasonably hard) just above the keyboard on the left hand side (Between
> the screen hinge & the top keys) the display would come back... But
> often with garbage on it just like you're seeing.
>
> To me it looked like there may have been a loose connector somewhere...
> But I'm not sure if the graphics are on a daughter board or the
> systemboard...

EXACTLY the same here. T40p. The problem occured when IBM replaced the clap=
 of=20
the PCMCIA port. I'll have to send it in again ;(

regards
Alex

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