[ltp] [OT,HW] T23 know failure?

[Stephen Ryan]

On 1/1/07, Marco Gaiarin <marcogaio@inwind.it> wrote:
>
> My daddy passed to me a wonderful T23, with an only little problem: the
> CMOS battery dead.
> They keep unused for sometime before passed to me, so i've not bother
> on that, and using it this problem seems resolved, only sometime the
> t23 boot with 'set date and time'.
>
> But now, and by some weeks, the box refuse to boot apart if i:
>
> 1) press the power button.
> 2) press the 'case' under the keyboard on the left (press gently).
>
> Also if i connect to AC power, nothing happen, i've to press in the
> same point to have the 'recharge' led lit.
>
> Note that after the T23 start, they work flawlessy with no trouble at
> all.
>
>
> Someone have knowledge about a know defect or trouble about this
> series?


Nothing specific, but some acquaintances of mine have reported some
truly odd behavior with dead CMOS batteries.  It's probably worth
trying to replace the battery to see what all it might fix; IBM has
marvelously good PDF manuals on their web site, with very detailed
instructions on how to replace various parts, and CMOS batteries
should be fairly inexpensive.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4UYM3F
might be helpful to you.