Yes. A very well-known problem. If the stripes and odd colours are all that you're getting, the GPU chip became unsoldered.
If you're getting weird letters/symbols when you attempt to access BIOS, that's VRAM corruption. You'd need a replacement board regardless...not too many people would have the proper stencils to reball an A31/p GPU. Good luck. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: STeve Andre' <[email protected]> To: Thinkpad Users Group <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:04 pm Subject: [Thinkpad] A31 failure So my wife's A31 did something sad yesterday. It's nine+ years old so it isn't unexpected, but I think it's dead. When powered up, there are vertical stripes of various colors, then the screen becomes white from the bottom up. I had a backup A31 so this isn't exactly a tragedy, but I am curious if this is a known failure mode? I'm familiar with the bad video ram problem, but this isn't it. I haven't poked at it much--is it worth it, I wonder. --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
