Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:42:07 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM T30 and thermal problems Message-ID: <1094092927.1087.4.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <20040901154816.GA7942@speedy.unibe.ch> References: <OF5C7679CC.22C07D4B-ON87256F02.00528AB4-87256F02.0052F758@us.ibm.com> <20040901110954.O48577@xeon.unixathome.org> <20040901154816.GA7942@speedy.unibe.ch>
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On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 11:48, Tobias Roth wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Just so IBM has more messages to "remove from Internet": I had two T30 which developed this problem while on warranty, had motherboards replaced. To be fair, they have been working flawlessly since. After someone noticed that his memory has halved, we checked about half dozen and found another one. Morale -- if you have T30, try to fill second memory slot while you still have warranty and have it run non-stop for a while. --- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.
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