Hi, Did you also write disc 1 of 1? The Rescue & Recovert start disc? If you only made the Recovery cd ir will not work properly. Call your IBM Tech Support for new Recovery Cd set. As long as the machine has a warranty you are entitled to get them free of charge. Outside the warranty you can get th...

Guys, The reason you get an error when using non supporteddrives in the T43 machine 1872/2668 is that they both have a paralell to Serial bridge controller built in to the machines. Wehn using drives of non IBM/Lenovo option the machine warn the customer with the 2010 error that some instructions mi...

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Send your machine to service and it will be fixed for free unless customer damaged.
It might result in the battery not charging if the plug becomes to loose. T30 and previous has an I/O bracket where all ports are soldered.

Have you updated the BIOS? It might help. Try to do the same but this time without main battery with only ac/adapter connected. What happens? Try to boot up in to BIOS with F1 after resume and se if it does the same. check device manager to see if something is missing or start in safe mode. If possi...

Try to lift the machine and put pressure at the area of the touchpad and the mouse from underneath the machine, and press up towards the keyboard with your fingers. What happens? Or remove the keyboard, wont void the warranty since it it as customer replacable unit, and once removed with the cable s...

Hello, Try to connect an external monitor to verify if you get the same problem on external as well as on the LCD. If you have the same problem on external monitor as on the LCD try to boot in to safe mode and see what happens. If that works fine boot up to win Xp as normal and lift your machine sli...

Regarding recovery cd for warranty and non warranty machines the following applies. A machine wihtin warranty can only get recovery cd when the hardrive fail or when the recovery partition does not work. If any of these occur cd are sent under warranty. A machine without warranty recovery cd can be ...

So Rose, Have you called in to IBM and reported the ThinkPad stolen, In Sweden of course? Since thieves are stupid they will probably call in and ask for support which they don't get if it is reported stolen. Otherwise some lucky guy get your old machine for like £500 So a good word is don't leave y...