[ltp] Dead R51

[Hunter Fuller]

On  10 May 2006, at 10:56 PM, Andrew Barr wrote:

> you plug in the adapter. After that, some sort of short must have
> developed because plugging the battery and the AC in at the same time
> causes the unit to get very hot and smoke near the battery terminals.
Holy crap... Well, here's what you do for MB short testing: Give it  
some type of power and "massage" the keyboard, therefore applying  
indirect pressure to the mainboard. If the charging LED lights up at  
some point, then yeah, you need a new MB... but we knew that anyway =P

I would try IBM, even though it might be expensive... My R51 has  
given me great service.
> The same battery and adapter work fine in my dad's R50e.
>
> I can't figure this out either, there's a lot of data points in this
> situation that don't make sense. There's an extra DIMM I was using  
> in my
> R51 (512 MB for a total of 768 MB) that, when inserted into the
> R50e /it/ begins to behave much in the same way (described in the
> original post). Which is annoying, because the 256 MB that the R50e  
> has
> is woefully inadequate for me (OpenOffice.org takes an /eternity/ to
> start). Nonetheless, simply removing the DIMM from the R51 didn't  
> revive
> it, as it does the R50e. There's probably more than one problem here,
> and I don't know how it all fits together.
>
> I'm not off of ThinkPads, though, and we're going to try to see  
> what IBM
> would be willing to do to rectify the situation (probably nothing but
> it's worth a try). Failing that I'm looking the T60s, which look very
> nice.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Barr