TK, I'm not following you-- Francesco said that his machine worked till it was dropped, so it seems pretty clear to me that its a hardware problem of the system kind as opposed to a disk problem. Or am I misreading the situation?
--STeve Andre' On Tuesday 26 May 2009 12:01:41 TK wrote: > At 5/26/2009 11:51 AM, RayBay wrote: > >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. > > I would suggest that it would be easier to boot the machine from a bootable > OS CD, such as Knoppix (Linux) or Bart PE/Ultimate Boot CD (Windows)...or > even boot into PC-Doctor from the recovery partition if this computer has > that. > > This way you'd neither need to buy and replace a hard drive, nor deal with > OS installation. > > Then, perform something CPU intensive and see if the machine overheats. If > it does, you know it's got nothing to do with your own hard drive or your > own installed operating system, and you can confidently move onto the > hardware issues RayBay mentions. > > I just replaced the fan on my T41, which required a lot fewer steps than > your x61 will...and I did learn the hard way that failure to apply thermal > grease on the new cooling assembly led to rapid overheating. So, perhaps > it is the case that your fan assembly has become loose or needs new thermal > grease. > > Good luck, > > TK > > >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. > > ... > > >RayBay > > > >On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > 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' > >> > >> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 10:11:21 francesco tartaglia wrote: > >> > 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
