[GTALUG] thinkpad repair; or, new laptop

[Matt Price]

I think now I understnad at least some of my issues; I believe that one or
more of the cables connecting the LCD unit to the main body is crimped or
damaged, and needs to be replaced. Among other things, the lid sensor is
spontaneously generating many (often thousands) of lid open/close events;
this leads to spontaneous wake-ups and doubtless also to race conditions
that might have been the cause of the failure to resume that I've been
seeing sometimes.

I've posted other versions of the question in other forums, and found this
post this morning, which was quite helpful:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T/T440-issue-lid-sensor/td-p/3338402

Am wondering if anyone has a broken t440 or 440s that they're completely
done with -- I am not sure how to order small parts from Lenovo, and if I
could avoid paying a fortune for them I'd certainly appreciate it.
Alternatively, is there a repair shop downtown that folks have faith in? I
don't want to part with the machine for a long period as it's my everyday
computer.

Thanks!
Matt



On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:52:20PM -0400, Matt Price via talk wrote:
> > My THinkpad T440s is having some serious issues with suspend -- at times
> it
> > will enter a hard freeze while suspended, requiring a hard reset with the
> > manual reset button; at times it won't suspend at all, but enter a
> > similarly unresponsive, blank-screen state from which it cannot be
> > accessesd, requiring a soft reset with the power button; and at other
> times
> > it will suspend just fine.
> >
> > 1) I suppose this could be at least partly a software problem. Anyone
> know
> > what logs I should look in? I'm running Gnome on Arch, so it's a systemd
> > system.
>
> Well it could be a software problem.  Suspend/resume handling has often
> been a problem.  So many drivers and things involved and easy to have
> something not work quite right.  I never use it (Partially because it
> takes less time to boot and start my programs than to resume with a lot
> of ram in the machine).
>
> > 2) I suspect this is atl east partly a hardware problem. My warranty is
> > expired. Is there a decent thinkpad repair place that might be able to
> > diagnose this issue?
>
> No clue, and at what cost?
>
> > 3) if I can't fix this, I will be getting a new laptop shortly. It would
> be
> > nice if I could use my new m2 drive (which is currently in an LVM
> together
> > with the primary SSD from the thinkpad, but I'd hate to lose it entirely
> as
> > it wasn't cheap). The Thinkpad T460 looks like it will end up costing
> about
> > $2000. I'd like to get a linux-compatible machine with a nice keyboard,
> but
> > pay a bit less than that if I can (it's only been a couple of years
> since I
> > bought the last one!). Any suggestions? THe keyboard has always been the
> > killer feature that keeps me with Thinkpad, but maybe things have gotten
> > better in the last little while?
>
> My wife's T430 recently stopped turning on.  Our current plan is to find
> a similar model on kijiji for about $350 and get that, then move over
> the disks, and ram and such that we added.  At least that way we get to
> keep our upgraded hardware and we will have an extra battery, keyboard,
> power adapter, etc which is handy.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
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