From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 18:28:58 EDT
the 240 is a neat little thinkpad..
i have two 240X's..
you have the best part of the machine..
you can probably find a 240 with a crushed display for less than replacing
the system board..
will the 240 boot from the floppy..??
or is it totally dead at this point..?
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cormac McGuinness" <cormac_at_BUPHY.bu.edu>
To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: Is my Thinkpad toast ?
> hi there,
>
> I have (had?) a thinkpad 240 and on Friday out of the blue it crashed
> and no longer boots up. Instead it beeps the following sequence 1-3-3-1
> which appears to be a POST error from the Phoenix bios (v4.0) called
> "Autosize DRAM" and is usually associated with a failure in the extended
> memory (according to the google searchs I have been doing). I removed
> the 128MB SODIMM which left the 64MB soldered onto the motherboard. It
> then worked for another 12 hours before finally keeling over at that
> point.
> Is this Thinkpad irretrievable at this point ?
>
> Any advice or experience with this kind of issue would be useful. I
> cant find anything relevant at the IBM website and this model 2609-21U
> is no longer even supported on their legacy support 1-900 phone number!
>
> I'd really like to keep this one alive as I enjoy its small size
> compared to the standard size of normal (large) laptops.
> If it is dead then can anyone recommend an equivalent which isnt too
> expensive ?
>
> Yours
> Cormac
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