I worked for IBM for 30 years and started in service. My family has
many Thankpads. With appropriate parts I do repairs myself.
Two things.
1) Parts are usually prohibitively expensive. You can often do web
searches and find discount parts but that's hit or miss.
2) Lenovo seems to still
: Greg Kettmann <g...@kettmann.com>Sent: Oct 15, 2011 7:14 AMTo: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.orgSubject: Re: Thinkpad repair?I worked for IBM for 30 years and started in service. My family has many Thankpads. With appropriate parts I do repairs myself.Two things.1) Parts are usually prohibi
I have three X61s and two X40s in my family... I love Thinkpads!
I have found ebay to be an excellent source of parts, for short money. The
other day my nephew's X40 died; the battery would not charge even with a new
battery
and a good power supply. So, I figured something had died on the
On 10/14/2011 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
I'm going to call this `on-topic' because there are so many
Thinkpads in the Linux community--and because, since our
software doesn't just spontaneously `rot', so many of us
run them until the hardware just fails irreparably. So, I'm
hoping
When I bought my Lenovo Thinkpad W510 through ebay, it was still under
warranty, but one of the LED backlights was not operational, which left
a dark spot on the screen.
I took it to this Lenovo warranty service provider:
Computer Hut of New England, Inc. 358 Main Street, Suite 2 Nashua, NH,
I should probably pipe up here. I've noticed two schools of thought that, on
the face of things, seem to describe two different customer experiences:
dissatisfaction at having to pay a diagnostic fee for no actual service, and
satisfaction at being able to drop off a laptop and have it worked on
As for Computer Hut (http://www.thecomputerhut.com), it is a long-established
NH business, though relatively recently moved from their digs on Elm St. I
can
vouch for them, as, yes, I worked there back in '93. And, unlike big shops,
turnover is incredibly low; indeed, the lead tech now
Jon \maddog\ Hall mad...@li.org writes:
When I bought my Lenovo Thinkpad W510 through ebay, it was still under
warranty, but one of the LED backlights was not operational, which left
a dark spot on the screen.
I took it to this Lenovo warranty service provider:
Computer Hut of New
I'm going to call this `on-topic' because there are so many
Thinkpads in the Linux community--and because, since our
software doesn't just spontaneously `rot', so many of us
run them until the hardware just fails irreparably. So, I'm
hoping someone can give me some helpful comments on getting
my
