I've had much luck over the years purchasing replacement hinges, lids, lcd panels, keyboards, basically any part that I've ever had fail on a laptop on ebay.
A quick search shows plenty of lids beings available, likely the specific part you need will be available too: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xt440s+lid.TRS0&_nkw=t440s+lid&_sacat=0 I understand the pain of having every day computers repaired! The one time I warrantied a Lenovo laptop it came back within days with cosmetically worn parts replaced. I was quite impressed but of course I had to let it go for a few days. Definitely check the warranty status. Best of luck! Erich On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Matt Price via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > I think now I understnad at least some of my issues; I believe that one or > more of the cables connecting the LCD unit to the main body is crimped or > damaged, and needs to be replaced. Among other things, the lid sensor is > spontaneously generating many (often thousands) of lid open/close events; > this leads to spontaneous wake-ups and doubtless also to race conditions > that might have been the cause of the failure to resume that I've been > seeing sometimes. > > I've posted other versions of the question in other forums, and found this > post this morning, which was quite helpful: > > https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer- > T/T440-issue-lid-sensor/td-p/3338402 > > Am wondering if anyone has a broken t440 or 440s that they're completely > done with -- I am not sure how to order small parts from Lenovo, and if I > could avoid paying a fortune for them I'd certainly appreciate it. > Alternatively, is there a repair shop downtown that folks have faith in? I > don't want to part with the machine for a long period as it's my everyday > computer. > > Thanks! > Matt > > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:52:20PM -0400, Matt Price via talk wrote: >> > My THinkpad T440s is having some serious issues with suspend -- at >> times it >> > will enter a hard freeze while suspended, requiring a hard reset with >> the >> > manual reset button; at times it won't suspend at all, but enter a >> > similarly unresponsive, blank-screen state from which it cannot be >> > accessesd, requiring a soft reset with the power button; and at other >> times >> > it will suspend just fine. >> > >> > 1) I suppose this could be at least partly a software problem. Anyone >> know >> > what logs I should look in? I'm running Gnome on Arch, so it's a systemd >> > system. >> >> Well it could be a software problem. Suspend/resume handling has often >> been a problem. So many drivers and things involved and easy to have >> something not work quite right. I never use it (Partially because it >> takes less time to boot and start my programs than to resume with a lot >> of ram in the machine). >> >> > 2) I suspect this is atl east partly a hardware problem. My warranty is >> > expired. Is there a decent thinkpad repair place that might be able to >> > diagnose this issue? >> >> No clue, and at what cost? >> >> > 3) if I can't fix this, I will be getting a new laptop shortly. It >> would be >> > nice if I could use my new m2 drive (which is currently in an LVM >> together >> > with the primary SSD from the thinkpad, but I'd hate to lose it >> entirely as >> > it wasn't cheap). The Thinkpad T460 looks like it will end up costing >> about >> > $2000. I'd like to get a linux-compatible machine with a nice keyboard, >> but >> > pay a bit less than that if I can (it's only been a couple of years >> since I >> > bought the last one!). Any suggestions? THe keyboard has always been the >> > killer feature that keeps me with Thinkpad, but maybe things have gotten >> > better in the last little while? >> >> My wife's T430 recently stopped turning on. Our current plan is to find >> a similar model on kijiji for about $350 and get that, then move over >> the disks, and ram and such that we added. At least that way we get to >> keep our upgraded hardware and we will have an extra battery, keyboard, >> power adapter, etc which is handy. >> >> -- >> Len Sorensen >> > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >
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