I'm sad to say that you're most likely looking at an early stage of the SouthBridge chip failure (detachment) which is a very common problem on these machines.
At some point you'll get the permanent "0200" message even when there's no hard drive installed and that will be the end of the game. You may or may not notice the USB ports, keyboard, wired and wireless LAN as well as the sound chip developing a mind of their own in the meantime. Re-balling (not reflowing) the solder balls under the chip or motherboard replacement are the only long-term solutions. Good luck. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> To: Thinkpad Users Group <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 10:33 pm Subject: [Thinkpad] T43 mystery glitch Ideas please: several days ago upon booting I received error msg "Hard disk failure". I reseated the drive several times but still received the same message on each boot. Although all my data were backed up, I was not looking forward to creating a new drive. The next day and since the T43 has booted normally. Are there other conditions which might generate this message? Anything to do now? The tray utility says no shock detected. Jeffrey Race _______________________________________________ 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
