Our recently acquired IMB Thinkpad T30 has died. I hope it doesn’t have the flu. Connecting an external monitor brings nothing up, removing the battery does not good, booting off CD no good; I’m thinking it is the motherboard as it actually powers up. No beeps on power up. Does anyone have any idea what it could be? Motherboards on Ebay are $350, so if it is the Internet’s concensus that the culprit is the motherboard, I think we’ll get a new one. Laptop. Not mubberbored. Not to be left out, the TV won’t power up either. Could it be a conspiracy????
Flu-ridden Electronics
January 15th, 2006 · 5 Comments
Tags: Technology
5 responses so far ↓
1 John // Jan 15, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Sounds like it is starting to pour on you guys!!!! I have no idea about your tech problem……I, for one, am technologically challenged….hahaa! I am just glad that you are able to post now and then. How are the kids?????? Getting any better??? Keep us posted on them……and how is your dad getting along???? As I said…when it rains it pours!!!
Keep in touch!
John
2 Aunt Kathy and Uncle Gregg // Jan 16, 2006 at 12:47 am
Hi, Kitty and Jamie,
Are you talking about running the thinkpad on battery only? If you are using AC, have you tried checking the outlet with something else - like a lamp? You could test the outlet for the TV with a lamp, too.
What about the circuit breakers - have you checked them?
I know we recently had some thunderstorms in the Bay area. Do you have surge protection in case a transformer went out in the neighborhood?
I hate to see someone spend any money without checking the simple stuff first.
Love, Aunt Kathy and Uncle Gregg
3 Aunt Kathy and Uncle Gregg // Jan 16, 2006 at 12:48 am
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot - is the laptop set up for sleep mode? I have one of those laptops from work and I had a hard time with it until I figured out that the sleep mode was shutting the dratted thing off.
4 Dr. Chrissy // Jan 17, 2006 at 10:09 pm
It’s probably the funky Niles electricity gumming everything up. Probably spiders. Whaddaya expect?!?! Its a free hookup! Really, sorry to hear about your electronics problems. Hope you are enjoying mom’s soup as much as we are. Love, C
5 Mitch // Jan 18, 2006 at 2:05 am
Sorry about the flu, I’m just getting over a touch of it myself. This must be a bad bug because I ‘never’ get sick.
Don’t know much about IBM but I believe they have very good tech support. Completely dead?? That is rare. Maybe just a poor connection inside. Maybe the motherboard. Many problems are often traced to bad RAM. Sure would be nice if it was as easy as replacing the RAM….
Good luck;)
-Mitch
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