The switch would make sense as a culprit if the machine was moved in any way, but I have yet to see a switch turning itself on and off without anything being touched, after a certain period of time...
Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: TK <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 2:38 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43 screen out, China support befuddled! At 4/7/2010 02:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: > If your external monitor turns off along with the LCD, then it's definitely a GPU issue. On my T41, closing the lid switch turns off both the LCD and the external monitor....so, I would think this symptom would not rule out a lid switch problem. - TK >-----Original Message----- >From: Ted Wiseman <[email protected]> >To: Thinkpad Mailing List <[email protected]> >Sent: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 1:42 pm >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43 screen out, China support befuddled! > > >On 4/7/2010 9:47 AM, Andrew Webber wrote: >> There's a thread "[Thinkpad] T43 screen rpair done, China!" started >> Mar 31 which I think is the follow-up. > >Thanks. In that thread Stuart reported they replaced the LCD and the cable. >His problem must have been different from mine, since on my T42 the display turns off on the LCD *and* the external monitor, whether they're running in tandem or separately. So it couldn't be the LCD, and if it were in the cable I don't think it would affect the external monitor. > >If this is caused by the infamous T4x graphics chip solder fracture, as Chris suggested, then it's yet another manifestation of that problem, in addition to the other symptoms I've read about. > >On 4/7/2010 8:30 AM, Chris Schumann wrote: > > I've had a t41p that does this same thing. It had the reflow done once, > > then later developed this problem. I believe it could well be a video > > chip issue. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
