[ltp] Re: T30 owners - Memory bank problems?

[Ben Pfaff]

Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> A long time ago Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>Three of us in one office at Stanford have T30s with 1 GB
>>RAM as 2x512 MB.  All three of us have had a memory bank go bad.
>>Two of us have had motherboards replaced, and one of those
>>machines has in fact had two new motherboards.
>
> D. Sen wrote:
>> At what point do they recall their products if there is a design flaw? 
>> Its fine for now while its under warranty but after the three years are 
>> up, these machines are doomed (it seems from the majority of the 
>> responses) to only have one memory bank.
>
> I just experienced this.  My T30 had 512 MiB as 2 x 256 MiB and all
> of a sudden it now sees only 256 MiB.  The memory boards are both good;
> either one works in the slot closer to the front; the slot closer to
> the back does not appear to work any more.

Two of the machines I mentioned above are now completely dead.
One had some kind of undiagnosed motherboard or memory failure.
On the other, the video chipset went wonky, so that it could no
longer successfully display an image without distortion on
internal LCD or external CRT.

On all three of them, the internal 802.11b wireless eventually
just stopped working, too.  (One of these machines ran Windows,
so it wasn't just a Linux driver problem.)

The T30 is a particularly dismal ThinkPad model.
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