Re: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery"

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:57:41 -0700 

On 8/16/2011 12:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:

T61/p generation was shipped with defective nVidia GPU chips. This issue had 
also affected Apple, HP and Dell.

Lenovo knows about this and many a times will replace the board even when the 
machine is out of warranty.

Give them a call, you've got nothing to lose.
If a phone call does not work, try writing a _letter _to HQ, and go on about how you have been and want to continue to be a faithful TP customer, that you have taken good care of your machine, that this is a known problem, etc. Letters get assigned to people to deal with and by writing to HQ you are past the phone gate keepers.
This worked for me on an HP machine that was a year out of warranty. Like George said, the worst than can happen is they say no. 

Good luck.

Cheers,

George






-----Original Message-----
From: Randy<[email protected]>
To: tataslon<[email protected]>; chris<[email protected]>; 
thinkpad<[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 11:43 am
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery"

    And just like that, the GPU started failing its tests… either the faulty 
socket is causing this or it’s there’s more than just a socket problem…
I do believe she’s dead. L From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 10:25 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery"
It does sound like a bad slot... 

That being said, you have the ability of throwing a 4GB DIMM into the the 
healthy slot, which should be enough for most purposes.

Good luck.

Cheers,

George


-----Original Message-----
From: Randy<[email protected]>
To: tataslon<[email protected]>; chris<[email protected]>; 
thinkpad<[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 1:19 am
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery"
Thanks much!


FWIW, I ran the results and it booted to the Diagnostics fine and I opened up 
the box to take a look to see if the fan was running (and it was).


However, when running the diagnostics, I reliably get an error on Socket 1.  I 
changed the memory sticks into alternate sockets but I get the same error.


Anyone else agree that it sounds like RAM Socket 1 is hosed and only repairable 
via a system board replacement?  Or is there a slim hope that new RAM sticks 
may fix this issue, even though swapping them around didn’t move the failure to 
Socket 2.


Thanks much to everyone for the help!


From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 3:11 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery"


Here you go:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-56222

Cheers,

George






-----Original Message-----
From: Randy<[email protected]>
To: 'Chris Schumann'<[email protected]>; 
thinkpad<[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 5:06 pm
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery"


Is there an ISO somewhere I can grab for it?  I think Lenovo once offered



this but it's been a very long time since I've had to do any maintenance on



this box :)






-----Original Message-----



From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On



Behalf Of Chris Schumann



Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 1:17 PM



To: [email protected]



Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on



"recovery"






On 08/15/2011 02:54 PM, [email protected] wrote:



> Try ... PC Doctor for DOS CD and let us know what happens.



Yes, this is an excellent idea.






Chris









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