I have a question that one of you may be able to answer easily.
I have a Thinkpad T41 (type 2373-8RU) that has two problems:
1. It takes 4 to 6 attempts at pressing the start button to get the system to boot.
2. Once it boots and launches Windows it runs perfectly until I move the computer -- then it freezes. The screen blinks and sometimes a scrambled display is shown. The power is still on, the fan runs, the "power on" light is lit and the battery indicates it is charging -- but the computer will not run.
It must be re-started.
I've tried an external monitor but that freezes also.
Is that something that you have seen before?
I wondered if it was overheating -- so I cleaned the cooling system out. No change.
I have changed the CD-DVD ROM, both RAM modules, the hard drive, and removed the modem daughter card.
I installed a fresh OS and video drivers -- run Windows XP and Windows ME. I even swapped the CPU (from a broken T43).
No improvement noted from doing any of the above.
One clue: I read that this laptop has an accelerometer of some sort that shuts things down (parks the hard disk heads?) when it senses it is falling.
Maybe that system has become over-sensitive and every little wiggle sets it off? Perhaps it is suffering from a bad case of vertigo?
In that case, is there a setting or something in the BIOS that shuts this feature off?
Thanks for any input you have.
Sincerely,
Tom Cane
I have a Thinkpad T41 (type 2373-8RU) that has two problems:
1. It takes 4 to 6 attempts at pressing the start button to get the system to boot.
2. Once it boots and launches Windows it runs perfectly until I move the computer -- then it freezes. The screen blinks and sometimes a scrambled display is shown. The power is still on, the fan runs, the "power on" light is lit and the battery indicates it is charging -- but the computer will not run.
It must be re-started.
I've tried an external monitor but that freezes also.
Is that something that you have seen before?
I wondered if it was overheating -- so I cleaned the cooling system out. No change.
I have changed the CD-DVD ROM, both RAM modules, the hard drive, and removed the modem daughter card.
I installed a fresh OS and video drivers -- run Windows XP and Windows ME. I even swapped the CPU (from a broken T43).
No improvement noted from doing any of the above.
One clue: I read that this laptop has an accelerometer of some sort that shuts things down (parks the hard disk heads?) when it senses it is falling.
Maybe that system has become over-sensitive and every little wiggle sets it off? Perhaps it is suffering from a bad case of vertigo?
In that case, is there a setting or something in the BIOS that shuts this feature off?
Thanks for any input you have.
Sincerely,
Tom Cane
