[GTALUG] thinkpad repair; or, new laptop

[Erich Welz]

I've had much luck over the years purchasing replacement hinges, lids, lcd
panels, keyboards, basically any part that I've ever had fail on a laptop
on ebay.

A quick search shows plenty of lids beings available, likely the specific
part you need will be available too:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xt440s+lid.TRS0&_nkw=t440s+lid&_sacat=0

I understand the pain of having every day computers repaired! The one time
I warrantied a Lenovo laptop it came back within days with cosmetically
worn parts replaced. I was quite impressed but of course I had to let it go
for a few days. Definitely check the warranty status.

Best of luck!

Erich

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Matt Price via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> 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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