Switching screens is not difficult, but can take a lot of time. There are a lot of rubberized screw covers to replace. Depending upon the Thinkpad, there are 18 to 24 screws to remove and replace... But everything you need to do is obvious... and the Thinkpad User Guide schematics will be helpful from a Lenovo download. You might want to buy a new inverter while you are doing it... they run $18 to $70 depending on where you find them. Do not get used ones.
Be very careful in removing the screw covers, or have replacements handy. You can end up with an ugly computer that will reduce its resale value. Practice on the bad computer until you have become comfortable. The screw covers are hard to find, but they are the best choice when performing the reassembly. Please keep us posted on your failed unit and how you get it going agaom/ RayBay ________ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. . . . . . . . . . Will Rogers On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Timothy Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my - actually my grand-daughter's - T43s died yesterday. > The symptom is that when the power button is pressed, > the two lights on the left come on for a second and then turn off. > Nothing appears on the screen. > > I've tried taking out the battery, > pressing the power button for 40 seconds > (also 17 times, as suggested somewhere), > and trying to boot from the mains without battery. > > Does anyone have any other suggestions? > Is it likely to be the CMOS battery? > > Incidentally, I now have two sick T43s - > this one, and one I fell out of bed onto, > which works fine but has a large spider in the middle of the screen. > > How difficult would it be to swap the screens on the two machines? > On a scale of 1 to 10, with removing keyboard = 4? > > Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
