Yep, I've lost a couple of T43/p units to the SouthBridge failure myself. One of them with a full SATA mod less than a month ago...
Check and see if Dominic can help you out: http://www.theboardroom.info/index.html Good luck. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 9:07 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43 mystery glitch Bingo! 0200 :) On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:43:45 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
