I may set the record for warranty repairs--I think my T41 has been back maybe eight times now--all for different things. The DHL guy recognizes me on the street, he's visited me so many times. One time it was the motherboard, and the rest have been little things, like loose power connectors (am I th...

ssm0003 wrote:Listen guys, in the corporate world you don't go pissing off VPs anywhere.

Well, I never much cared for children, and don't have any, so I guess I wouldn't fit well in the corporate world. Most of the people I deal with are rational.

I can't believe I'm the only one who's had problems with that little yellow jack. Mine is always coming loose, and it's also had to be replaced when the little spring that presses against the outside of the male fitting broke. Right now it's grabbing none too well, and I'll probably need another tri...

VP or not, you're going to have to convince him that he's the problem. I'd tell him he's got two more drives to figure it out, and then you're cutting him off, for his own good, so that he doesn't lose something really important some day. And I'd back it up with memos to his boss, even if that's onl...

I've had my T41 for two years and a few months. In that time it's been back home six or seven times, has had a new hard drive, wireless card, and motherboard. I think the warantee is a great deal. Further, given my experience, I do NOT want a new keyboard, handrest or motherboard--the ones I have ri...

I have a CaseLogic sleeve I really like. It's cheap, fits perfectly, is made of their wetsuit sponge stuff, so it's nicely protective. But the best thing about it is that it adds almost nothing to the size of the laptop, and fits in anything. If I'm just going to work, I'll slip it in my shoulderbag...

I don't quite understand what you're doing to have this problem that none of the rest of us do, but nevermind. What about armoring the exterior underneath with something like graphite/epoxy board? Or even 1/8" sheet aluminum. It doesn't seem like you'd have to do something too exotic to stiffen thin...

"We used to use something in the service, avionics cleaner, or "tweat in a can,' " Would this be the same thing that Radioshack sells in a spray can as contact cleaner/lubricant? I use a long flat oil painting brush for cleaning--you can get it started at one end, and sweep under the keys from one e...

I've had this happen--usually it's just a crumb of something underneath, and I can blow it out, or, push both ends and the center down hard, all at once--you'll hear a crunch as the bit gets smashed into something smaller, and then you can just blow it out, no big deal. Stop eating crackers while co...

Just one thing, guys: NONE of you EVER gets to complain how much your Thinkpad cost, if you're pulling stunts like this.

It's interesting that three of us have mentioned water. It was a bit of a surprise to me when I discovered that I didn't need some strong chemical to remove greasy fingerprints. I'd always thought of this type of problem as being how close I could get to acetone without actually destroying what I wa...

I use water and a paper towel on the screen, and occasionally some windex, to get off the last bits of oil. I know there's a lot of noise about this, but I've been doing it on this T41 for almost three years (and on every computer I've had previously) and the only screen problem is a damaged spot wh...

Mine reliably starts back up with the function Fn key, also. I just tap it a few times.

My previous laptop was an extremely cheap Compaq 732US--junk, really. However, my T41's speakers are grossly inferior: so bad, relatively, that it's ridiculous. I guess IBMs really are business computers. I use headphones with mine anytime I'm listening to music. It' not the end of the world.

My rather too-extensive experience (five times) is that the shipping option is *really* fast. I call one day, get the box the next, then the delivery guy stands there while I pack the box (DHL--he says he'd rather wait for me to box it up than come back later in the day after I call for a pickup, wh...

Having tripped over my cord a couple of times without (yet) a disaster, I think the new Apple laptop has the best idea of all--a magnetic power connection that's easy to break, and doesn't involve a "plug". Every laptop manufacturer should do that!

Somewhere on the web is a site that runs through the rebuilding operation. Now, I'm a violin maker and repairman, so my hands are OK, and I'm not afraid to dig into things without quite knowing what I'm doing, and electricity doesn't put me off, but after reading the instructions I decided I'd rathe...

My prediction (because that's what happened to me) is that they will reload the hard drive, proclaim everything is OK, and it won't be. Then you'll have to send it back again, insisting that they replace the motherboard, and that will solve the problem.

There's a little door on the bottom--the size of a business card--open it up and take a look. Basically, you just plug the memory in, push the card down so it locks under the little clips on each side, and boot up.

You have another option? :-)

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I have a three-year one--does anyone know if that can be extended again (it's been 2 years for me now)?

If my T41 is any example, the three-year warranty is a great buy--I've certainly used it enough, anyway.

My touchpad/trackpoint buttons get strange sometimes, and it's just crud caught underneath. Usually a much harder press than usual will fix it (crushing whatever's caught), if that's the problem.

If people interested in this thread didn't search for other posts, I believe I remember from researching during my own experience that the reason the motherboard gets replaced is that one of the controller chips for USB is subject to some kind of burn-out if it's abused (one of the possibilities bei...

I think you'll find a lot here. The bottom line of the story seems to be that if you put something on your USB connection that demands a little more current than the controller chip likes to give (which may still be within USB specs...), it fries. And the solution is a new system board. I had this p...

It's the luck of the draw and could have happened with any of them, but it's too bad this is your first experience, since you don't have any perspective on how bad laptop service can be. Compared with the seven weeks Compaq once kept one of mine, three days, door to door seems like an instant that's...

When I first got my computer and tried it the first time I had a problem, it deleted all my programs and files, and gave me a machine as it came from the factory. I don't call this a "quick fix"--I call it total destruction. So you're on the road, and your computer messes up, and the "solution" dele...

Yes, me.

And after you do that. . . It's probably not the right way to do it, but what I do is make a nice print, by hook or by crook, and then adjust my monitor so that it looks like the print. Also, make sure that all your devices are using the same color profile--I use sRBG. You don't want to take, for in...

What you're looking at is the rest of the hinge, I think. I agree with Greg, though. Remember, in the asylum they will only let you use crayons, not keyboards. :-) If you look around, there are some other interesting gaps, inconsistencies, things that give under pressure, and things that move (!!!) ...