Yes... difficult to track down the problem... Could be a crack in the system board or something simply out of place... but it must be corrected or it will die... perhaps slowly or suddenly. You cannot ignore such problems on a thinkpad.
First try I would make is simple. Replace the hard drive and reinstall Windows or Linux... That may be enough to return it to normal... then drag and drop until you rescue all the data. If no help, I would totalyl disassemble the Thinkpad, and look closely for impact damage of any kind... an invisible crack in the system board can be the same as cutting a wire to a key circuit. I would unplug and re-seat every cable and component. If nothing is found, I would replace the CPU fan and thermal paste... which you should be able to do for less than $20. Slowly, using remove and replace, you will fix it or narrow it down to a few problems. Finally, I would replace the system board... every now and then, you come across a Thinkpad with a broken screen. You can then have the fun of building a new Thinkpad from the parts of both. A dropped computer that changes in any way must be returned to normal operation. Not a job to perform quickly, but a fun way to learn a great deal about your laptop... and something that must be done, anyway. Whatever you, please get back to us with a final report so we can learn from you. RayBay ________ Your life of freedom and peace has been brought to you by a soldier. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 May 2009 10:11:21 francesco tartaglia wrote: > > > Hello Francesco, > > > > > > I think the heat sink got moved when the laptop was dropped. Since you > > > know how to open it, perhaps it would be good to do that again, and > feel > > > the top of the heatsink. It should be pretty hot, and the air from the > > > fan should be warm, too. > > > > > > You probably need more heatsink "paste" that goes between the CPU and > > > heatsink. I don't know if there is a special kind for the thinkpad or > > > not. But perhaps just adjusting it would help? > > > > > > --STeve Andre' > > > > Hi Steve > > thanks for your answer. > > But I think that it is very difficulty for me > > because to access to fanskin > > is necessary take down a lot of component: > > in order: > > v “1010 Battery pack” > > v “1020 Hard disk drive (2.5-inch) and HDD rubber rails” > > v “1030 DIMM cover” > > v “1050 Keyboard” > > v “1060 Upper case” > > v “1080 Hard disk (1.8-inch)” > > v “1090 Hard disk housing (1.8-inch)” > > v “1100 Wireless WAN PCI Express Mini card” > > v “1120 Wireless LAN PCI Express Mini card” > > v “1130 MDC” > > v “1150 Second Fan” > > v “1160 Speaker” > > v “1170 DC-in and RJ-11 connectors” > > v “1180 LCD assembly” > > v “1190 Hard disk sub-card” > > v “1200 System board and lower case assembly with label” > > Thats right, its a lot of work, but I think that is where your problem is. > > 1) your thinkpad worked at one point; > > 2) you dropped it; > > 3) it works, but now overheats. > > Given that, since you say that the fan works, that isn't the issue. A > overheating CPU will do all sorts of bad stuff, and that overheating > is commonly caused by a) no fan, b) the heat dissapation system > not working. > > Thus I think the heatsink needs to be investigated. Sorry! Its a pain > to have to do this. > > Ray, are you reading this? Do you agree? > > --STeve Andre' > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
