Since this was well within the warranty period I sent the unit back. On 05/09/2015 10:19 AM, John Abreau wrote: > I've seen similar intermittent behavior on four separate systems over > the years. Two I just gave up on and replaced, and for the other two, > I found that one had a cracked motherboard and the other had a cracked > solder joint. > > I was able to fix the bad solder joint, but I replaced the laptop with > the cracked motherboard. If it has still been within its warranty > period, I would have had the motherboard replaced, but eBay purchases > typically don't come with extended warranties. > > > > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org > <mailto:g...@blu.org>> wrote: > > Back in March I bought a refurb Lenovo Thinkpad W520. After installing > Linux, I performed an update. Went to the installfest, worked > fine. But > at the following BLU meeting it would not boot. I repeated the > proceedure a few times, and over a short period of time, the kernel > would load but would not complete the boot. I had 1 additional issue > where there was a vertical green line on my display (that was > intermittent). So, I returned the unit. They sent me a new unit as a > replacement that works perfectly. So, it appears that the issue was a > hardware issue. The replacement unit is now running Fedora 21 with the > latest Fedora kernel. (3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org <mailto:g...@blu.org>> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:B7F14F2F > PGP Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 > 4F2F > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org <mailto:Discuss@blu.org> > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email j...@blu.org <mailto:j...@blu.org> / WWW http://www.abreau.net / > PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 >
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