From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 15:48:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BDAF16A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:48:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch (mailhub02-skge0.unibe.ch [130.92.9.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB30443D5F for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:48:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roth@speedy.unibe.ch) Received: from localhost (scanhub02-eth0.unibe.ch [130.92.254.66]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82225765AD; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:48:19 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch ([130.92.9.53]) by localhost (scanhub02.unibe.ch [130.92.254.66]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03671-08-13; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:48:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from asterix.unibe.ch (asterix.unibe.ch [130.92.64.4]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFED765A2; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:48:18 +0200 (MEST) Received: from speedy.unibe.ch (speedy [130.92.64.35]) by asterix.unibe.ch (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i81FmH126999; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:48:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from roth@localhost) by speedy.unibe.ch (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i81FmGji008179; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:48:16 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:48:16 +0200 From: Tobias Roth To: Dan Langille Message-ID: <20040901154816.GA7942@speedy.unibe.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Langille , Brad Groft , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20040901110954.O48577@xeon.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040901110954.O48577@xeon.unixathome.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Warning! Using Outlook is insecure and promotes virus distribution. Please use a different email client. X-Virus-checked: by University of Berne cc: Brad Groft cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM T30 and thermal problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:48:21 -0000 On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:13:31AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Brad Groft wrote: > > > There was a post made - subject line - by an individual outside of IBM > > that did not have the authorization to do so. > > > > The information is IBM Confidential and needs to be removed. > > > > Please have someone contact me ASAP to discuss and to confirm that it has > > been removed. > > Removed from what? Probably from the mailing list archive. I remember that post, because it was made in reply to one of my questions. If you google for "IBM T30 and thermal problems" (including the quotation marks), you will see the post. It describes a known problem with IBM thinkpads. Sometimes, the mother- board stops recognizing the ram module inserted in one of the slots. This happened to me. My machine had 2x256MB. Some day, i noticed that the OS only showed 256MB of available memory, and with swapping modules around, I diagnosed this problem. My machine was still on warranty and when IBM changed the system board, things were back to normal. I was just lucky I noticed that something was broken while still being on warranty. It's kind of hard to detect this when not using both slots, and if you run out of warranty and then later want to add another dimm, you're out of luck I guess. The funny thing is that back then, I found lots of references to this problem, lots of people seemed to have it. Now, all I can find is this one last reference that is mentioned in the parent post. It can't be that IBM succeeded in having all references to this problem removed from the web? Of course, most likely I am just being paranoid and I simply didn't look hard enough... cheers, t.