Thanks ghasapidis and vlyne.
I'll try both your suggestions when I get my laptop back.
By the way, what is BOD?

The service center diagnosed the laptop, they said it needs a new motherboard and they quoted 1100 CAD for parts plus labor and tax.
I guess I'll look for a new motherboard online and replace it myself.

dlocutor:
I called ibm and asked for the authorized service centers. They don't charge for that

The first thing I would try is the keyboard. (cheaper than a motherboard) The power switch might be sticking. I would offer to sell you one and let you return it for a refund (minus shipping) if it doesn't fix your problem. Send me a pm if you're interested. Thank you very much for the offer. But, ...

killer wrote:If it is 2.5 years old then I'd send it back for repair under warranty.

It only had 1 year warranty unfortunately...

Couple weeks ago I started to have this problem. I would push the power button (while the battery is in and power cord attached), and all I was getting was a split second blink of the battery indicator LED, and nothing else. Any subsequent push on the power button wouldn't do anything either. Then I...

Memory is left on in suspend or standby(Fn+F4), thereby not needing to write the Windows state to the HD like hibernation does. If you click Turn Off Computer, you should get Stand By as an option, along with Hibernate if you have it enabled. Ok, thanks. So suspend and stand by are the same things ...

I travel with my thinkpad suspended all the time. ... Since most components other than memory is at powered off state, it's hard to imagine that drive's head is not at parked position. Correct me if I'm wrong but, I think memory is powered off as well. Well ok, it seems like everybody on this threa...

My understanding is that batteries start to deteriorate on the date they are manufactured, correct me if I'm wrong. That is right. According to the power manager, it shows the manufacture date along with the first used date. Does anyone know if the power manager calculates the "design capacity" bas...

Steerpike wrote:where do I see 'wear %' ?

wear = Full Charge Capacity / Design Capacity

My bad, sorry...

I have the same complaint. Single flap is just bad design I guess.

I'm not quite sure but, I think you also need to go to bios and change a setting there before it can be seen by a partition utility

My Software Installer still shows "Thinkvantage System Update 2.00" as the latest. I guess I'll just wait until it shows version 3, and then I'll install it. I guess "Lenovo System Update" is the new name for "Thinkvantage System Update". Is that correct? Also, will I need to uninstall SWI after ins...

Dead1nside wrote:Can they be peeled off and pressed back on safely, without damaging them. Or is the key fixed.

Yes they can. Pull it up from its bottom edge, and it will pop out.

Thanks Melvyn, I'll give it another try when I have time...

I have a T43 (see signature) and I got about the same scores as the OP when I installed a beta release couple months ago. The lowest score was 2.0 for my ATI x300 (64MB physical, and 256MB with software) video card. And for that reason I didn't get the Aero. OP doesn't mention any hack or anything t...

I basically did the same thing as Ken suggested. But I was a little bit more cautious, I deleted all the files in those directories but kept the .xml files. I noticed that those xml files contains version information of all the downloaded packages. I had the same fear as you have, I thought deleting...

Where do you think the saving would come from when on 16bit? LCD consumption or GPU consumption? My guess would be the GPU. Color depth basically adjusts how many different shades there are between two different colors, I don't see that would have any effect on the power consumption. As far as I kno...

Wow, what a shame, I'm the OP and I don't remember how I got around the problem. Even GomJabbar's link doesn't ring a bell. I guess, I just switched to Acronis DiskDirector and it worked for me. As Dan Goodell explained in that other forum, I used my TP and my old Toshiba to do the operations and th...

Funny, I noticed this the other day too, after using FF for two years
Maybe mozilla forum is a better place to ask...

Hi Allen, I posted some numbers here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=235956#235956 Power manager does not allow you to have a lower difference than 4% between the two numbers. So I kept it at 4%, this was more like a preference. I didn't want to wait too much before it starts to charge s...

Model of Thinkpad: T43 Number of Cells: 6-cell Design Capacity: 51.83Wh Full Charge Capacity: 46.81Wh Cycle Count: 78 Manufacturer Name: Panasonic Manufacture Date: 2005-11-29 First used Date: 2005-12 (12 months old) Total Wear: 5.02Wh in 12 months. ~3Wh of this happend in the first month when the s...

should you need a special service, you have to set up and map the virtual COM port youself. Hi Christopher, Is this process really doable? And how hard is it? Could you explain it a little bit more, or direct me to any resource or something. As you know, I was very frusrated with the IBM BT softwar...

Thank you Chirtopher, but it's already like that. I want it completely gone.

Also, check this out about bttask.exe:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 755#235755
It is soo getting on my nerves...

I started to get the same notifications for caps lock and num lock. It's pretty annoying, we already have LED indicators at the bottom of the screen for these two. Who needs a distracting popup thing for this. Moreover, who comes up with an idea that anybody would need this. :x And it's not just tha...

I have this ugly bluetooth icon on my system tray. I try to keep as few icons as possible there. To me, since I only have two BT devices, and they are already paired with my TP, this icon has no functionality at all. If I ever need to add a new device, I can just go to the control panel and do it th...

Did you have a look at here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=21976

Allen: 90% and 94% are for when it is on A/C power, to tell TP when to start and stop charging. If you are on batteries you will be discharging it anyways as long as you use it. If what you meant was using the batteries to drain them fully, even when you have access to A/C, I think that will kill th...

That is very interesting... I have a t43 2686, and I got a STA910021A couple months ago. I didn't have any problem with it: -no 2010 error (I thought you get that only with the Hitachi drives) -I didn't notice any temp difference (it's hot as hell as it was always, fan never stops even on idle) -HD ...