HMM will provide you instructions for troubleshooting, diagnostics, removal and replacement laptop hardware. All IBM HMMs are publicly available. You can find HMM for your laptop on the IBM website or you can follow the link below. All HMMs are in pdf format, so you can download them and use at your convenience. For hardware replacement instructions find “Removing and replacing a FRU” chapter.
| IBM ThinkPad Computer Hardware Maintenance Manuals Year 2001-2006 |
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| IBM ThinkPad A2*m, A2*p |
| IBM ThinkPad A2*e |
| IBM ThinkPad A21e |
| IBM ThinkPad A22* (Wireless models) |
| IBM ThinkPad A30, A30p, A31, A31p |
| IBM ThinkPad G40, G41 |
| IBM ThinkPad R30, R31 |
| IBM ThinkPad R32 |
| IBM ThinkPad R40, R40e |
| IBM ThinkPad R50/p, R51 |
| IBM ThinkPad R50e, R51e, R52 |
| IBM ThinkPad R60, R60e |
| IBM ThinkPad T20, T21, T22, T23 |
| IBM ThinkPad T30 |
| IBM ThinkPad T40/p, T41/p, T42/p |
| IBM ThinkPad T43 |
| IBM ThinkPad T43/p |
| IBM ThinkPad T60, T60p |
| IBM ThinkPad X20, X21, X22, X23, X24 |
| IBM ThinkPad X30, X31, X32 |
| IBM ThinkPad X40 |
| IBM ThinkPad X41 |
| IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet |
| IBM ThinkPad X60/s |
| IBM ThinkPad Z60m |
| IBM ThinkPad Z60t |
| IBM ThinkPad Z61e, Z61m |
| IBM ThinkPad Z61t |
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IBM ThinkPad Computer Hardware Maintenance Manuals Year 1997-2001 |
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| TransNote |
| i Series 1200, 1300, ThinkPad 130 |
| i Series 1400, 1500 |
| i Series 1400, 1500 |
| IBM ThinkPad 240 |
| IBM ThinkPad 240X |
| IBM ThinkPad 380, 385, 560, 760, 765 |
| IBM ThinkPad 380XD/385XD |
| IBM ThinkPad 380Z |
| IBM ThinkPad 390 |
| IBM ThinkPad 390E |
| IBM ThinkPad 390X |
| IBM ThinkPad 560X |
| IBM ThinkPad 560Z |
| IBM ThinkPad 570/E |
| IBM ThinkPad 600 |
| IBM ThinkPad 600X |
| IBM ThinkPad 770 |
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April 17th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Brian,
It’s possible that the audio jack got stuck in the “head phones” position, there is a switch inside the jack.
Check out this article and try that first.
Speakers stopped working after I used my headphones
April 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Hi I have an IBM Thinkpad R50e running on OEM batteries. Recently, when I switch from AC to battery power (unplug the cord with computer running), after a few minutes, the computer freezes and I need to reboot to get it started. Computer also appears to be running slower
Could this be due to installation of Microscoft Windows Updates or issues with the OEM (non original battery). The computer ran fine with these batteries for over a year.
When running on AC power, I do not have any freezing problems.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:57 am
I have a ibm thinkpad T41 2373-7fu my built on speakers do not work I can plug exterior speakers in and they work.
can anyone help
bc
April 9th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Cristian Ene,
I don’t remember this model off the top of my head, but…
I believe the battery charge LED is located on the inverter board, check out the following post and you’ll find some pictures.
Screen inverter replacement. Fixing laptop backlight problem.
If the laptop is working fine except the battery charge LED, maybe there is something wrong with the inverter? Just a guess.
April 7th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Thank you for the good product IBM ThinkPad Laptop R51 wireless.I bought it from a friend, and it had no accessories to show me how to fix other uses.It is giving me a good service, and I would like to get its Manual Book, so that I can know how to use on some items like printer, scaner and picture sending out, etc.Your co operation will be highly appreciated.
Thank you
April 5th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Hello,
I have the following problem with my T43 IBM laptop, model 1871 f1g:
When it’s not plugged in, it shows that it is, and it’s charging.
When it’s turned off, the light is on (as if it’s charging), and the back of the laptop emits a squeaking sound but light, must be very quiet to hear.
The problem with this is not bothering me so much, but, if i forget to plug it in, or i’m working without ac, it won’t stand by or ,… warn me … just dies, on a empty battery,… quite annoying when your working for 2 hours for a document
If you have any suggestions, feel free to point them out.
Thank you
March 31st, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Bryan,
First of all, make sure your problem is related to the video chip. Try booting your laptop with an external monitor. If the external monitor works fine and the problem appear only on the laptop screen, it’s possible you have bad LCD screen or video cable.
If both screens, the internal LCD and external monitor have garbled video, it’s a problem with the video card. Most likely the video chip is integrated into the motherboard (it’s not on a discrete card) and you cannot replace it. You’ll have to replace the whole motherboard.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Mishera,
Most likely it’s either bad memory or bad motherboard. Ask your technician to install a known good memory module first. Make sure he tries both memory slots. If it doesn’t help, apparently it’s bad motherboard.
I doubt that your problem is related to the fan or CPU. I don’t think that the laptop would give you any error message (beeping sound) with a bad CPU.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Laptop IBM T41: switch on the power button, beeping sound and no display at all. I tried to take it to technicians and to every ones shock, there was a hard kind of box cut paper put on above the processor fan. the technician recommended a new fan because to him that the old one could not hold the processor tightly. we failed to find a new one. so its disabled. any ideas because i cn’t do anything with my lovely laptop.
March 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hi, I have a Thinkpad R51, been through the wars a tad.
It has a Radeon 9200 Mobility chip on, and now when I boot it just displays garbled pixels all over the place like an old bugged arcade machine.
I firmly believe the rest of the laptop is fine, because at points I was able to boot it fully into windows, I can’t see a bloody thing now and it still does.
Anything i can try doing to fix it or should I just get another? I’m half computer savvy and to be honest reckon it’d be cheaper buying another off ebay over getting somebody else to solder it.
Regards.