Harryc wrote:.... It is common for some of the older model Thinkpad serial numbers not to show up in the warranty database....

I agree with Harry, my T23 doesn't show up in the database and I'm the one who opened the box it first came in.

With the drive inserted in the bay when you start the system and enter BIOS, or press F12, is the drive in recognised in the boot menu?
Do the drives you are using have hard drive passwords set on them?

I'd sooner drop an X30* on the floor than a Sony Z. The Sony Z is a wonderfull system, but....... a little fragile, to say the least. Depending on what you're looking for the X30* may be better. It's a shame X30* has been discontinued, but there were so many complaints about it not being dockable, I...

I'd have thought that was obvious; start with the FAQs and How Tos and then work your way through the individual boards' stickies - good luck!

Combining the contents of these boards and thinkwiki should be a good way to start your project.

I have an x201s and it reliably shuts down 'randomly' if I play a 720p movie while it lays on my quilt... Yes, preventing a laptop from being able to breath properly will almost guaranteed lead to a thermal shutdown. I think the question here is who / what is responsible for the sub-par thermal man...

@andyP Drive passwords are *not* meant as a prevention to boot at all by unauthed users (that's what the other BIOS password is good for). Drive passwords are meant to prevent accessing one specific drive (the one with the password) by unauthed users. Can you tell me how to remove the internal driv...

The pure presence of a password protected drive attached and recognised in BIOS will provoke the BIOS to request the password before proceeding to boot from any other attached medium. That's the whole point of the password.

If you remove the drive, it wont ask for the password.

Thought I'd just chip in and point out the the T4** and T4**s have completely different batteries. An T410s battery cannot stick out the back because it sits under the palm rest

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but ThinkPad help, Access Help and ThinkVantage Toolbox can al be found on this site

You can download it here

After booting from the start up disc, are you selecting to restore to an image or to factory settings? If you are selecting factory settings, what happens if you click on no?

richk's solution will work if you don't want to restore your main drive. Another option would be to call Lenovo support, explain the problem and ask for a set of discs. Before you do this see my reply to your other post.

I'm going to out myself as well, not for the first time in these boards. As smoking was effectively banned in German Pubs and Restaurants it got interesting to watch peoples reactions. There are pubs which are excepted, because of their small size, and then you have those declared as "smoker clubs" ...

-- "this options has been removed from the system..." --- this really is turning into a downgrade nightmare... nightmare is probably an appropriate use of words for this instance. The message you are receiving cannot be provoked when using an R&R boot cd. As a last, grasping at straws possible solu...

yes i have 5 CDs. the RR CD does not have XP label on it. Is this the disc you were booting from and getting blue screens? It's possible that it's dirty or scratched, try cleaning it and then, if you still get blue screens, copying it using another system and try again. The disc will have a p/n on ...

If you do decide to go ahead and install W7, make sure you create recovery discs for your current system should you want to revert back. Installing W7 will change the mbr and disable the possibility to recover from the service partition.

Are we to understand from your last post that you have a total of 5 discs? As three of these are clearly for Vista the and one an XP downgrade, what's written on the fifth disc? Is it titled "Recsue and Recovery? If so; look closely on the left side of the disc, hopefully you will see XP-SP2 written...

mattbiernat wrote:I have an XP downgrade CD.

You should have more than "an cd", you should also have an R&R cd which is the boot cd. Boot from it and eventually you will be asked for the recovery cd.

Classic Dome, as I stated in another poll which I can't find and wanted to quote;

A ThinkPad isn't a ThinkPad unless it's got hairs on it's TrackPoint

Welcome to the forum,

are you experiencing this with AC attached or only when running on battery? Here's a post with a possible cause. For more infromation on this you could search the forum for cpu whine.

Do you have an anti-virus software running? You might want to try disabling it. I once spent two days trouble shooting an R&R problem, it turned out that the anti-virus software, in that case G-Data, was stopping R&R from operating properly.

Sorry, but on Montevina systems with Vista the option to run a custom install is not available.
bloo explains this in the Lenovo Community forums here

There are different types of recovery disks, those issued by Lenovo / IBM with and without supplemental disks, and those created using R&R.
You need to click on "no", it will then ask for your first recovery disk. Happy recovering

Hans, welcome to the forum,

the 41C9432 is an upgrade of the base 3 year bring-in guarantee to 3 year on-site.

Regardless of whether your T43 has on-site or bring-in, you can only extend your warranty by 1 year on-site with the article 10N3144.

Hope this helps

Have you tried swapping the hard drives around from working to non-working systems to help rule out a software bug?

Was the repair regarding the crack in the base unit of your X60s mentioned in another thread? What hasn't been repaired properly, or as you say, only partially repaired? If the machine did go to the main IBM repair centre, I am very surprised that you have a grievance. I've been dealing with them fo...

What happens if you turn the printer off and then on again?

Are you able to run a repair from a Vista boot cd? I would give that a go first. If you can't or it didn't help, use a floppy drive and run the Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette which will hopefully enable you to access the service partition and start over. If all else fails you could u...

I would stongly suggest you reconsider what you are planning to try. The T500 has a 90W adapter, the W700 a 170W adapter, almost double. I doubt your insurance would cover the fire damage if you went ahead with this.

Edit; typo