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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March 26th, 2007 at 5:36 am
We can attempt reflowing the BGA ram and GPU on these boards if you cant find anyone to do it for you. (Garb video issues).. HP’s are showing this issue on a ton of models and Hynix and Samsung EOL’d the components. (Think they found a major issue and shut them down).. Many times the RAM will fail even if its mounted on top of the GPU its self which in my opinion rules out board distortion, As the GPU would have to warp from the board and in turn warp the RAM wafers. Inferior solder spheres or the wafers themselves warping slightly makes more sense to me. (This problem is also well known on the Xbox 360’s/Same RAM)
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March 16th, 2007 at 1:36 am
i have a problem with the installation of xp in a31p ibm thinkpad.
after formating the harddrive setup couldnot able to copy some files like p3.sys, modem.sys, d3d8.dll, etc. i tried many times with many bootable cds. a blue screen appears notifying to disable bios memory like chaching and shadowing. after that i enter in the cmos by pressing f1 but i could not find the option for bios memory generaly it is avalable in other computers
March 16th, 2007 at 12:15 am
actualy .. I did remember .. I had some problem like that before, it was in notebook Toshiba S1 ? or something like that .. it was again with Ati 7500 GPU .. and there was similar problem .. I tought that it is a memory chip problem .. and I replace it, .. but it didn’t help .. may be if I tryed to resomer BGA GPU .. it will help . but unfortunatly .. this notebook is not in range any more.. what ever .. I will appreciate if you mail me if you find solution …
P.P. my e-mail is : versusbg@yahoo.com
March 16th, 2007 at 12:07 am
HI all
Jean-Francois Perreault, I have the same problem .. with IBM ThinkPad T41, i have a lot of experience in laptop repairs, but I never had like this one, as you say .. I gues it is VGA chip problem .. I tryed to resolder BGA VGA board .. as you see it is made GPU and VGA RAM on the same little board , and it is so difficult to resolder that, couse you can’t be shure if the problem is in memory chips .. or on GPU .. or in that vga borad, so I get my HOT air gun .. actialy it is a BGA rework station .. and I heat all this board .. and the notebook start working fine .. but it was for couple of day .. I gues I have to heat it more to resolder all the ball contacts, ‘couse in metter of fakt is that when you heat it .. that balls change his volume .. and may be it make some contant .. but when they cool out .. it losing contact again .. if you read this .. pls e-mail me .. if you did find some Idea how ro repair it .. I will try again to resolder that BGA .. and If i have more stable succes .. I will let you know .. if I have your email offcourse
March 13th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Many thanks for all this information; great to find it all in one place!
March 7th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I have a Thinkpad R40. The Network “card” is not working. I purchased a docking station to bypass the RJ45 and had the same problem. LED will illuminate, but does not connect. I suspect this is a common issue as I’ve seen a few R40s listed on ebay with the condition. Is it repairable (by me)? What chip do I need and where is it located on the motherboard?
February 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
anyone heard of this trouble on ibm thinkpad r32 ?
I heard it’s common
when you boot the laptop, sometime nothing happens
sometime you get garbage video (even on the vga port)
sometime it works just fine, but any vibration or shock will crash the laptop and make it display video garbage
someone on ebay offers BGA reflow services for this laptop
turns out there is a defect in the design that causes stress on the pcb, and it causes the centered ATI graphics chip to lift some of it’s ball contacts, so when you hit (slightly) the laptop, random pins of the graphic chip get disconnected
I have a laptop that had this problem, bought a replacement board, same problem !!!! arg !!
if I apply enough pressure on the graphic chip (I wedged a rj45 connector between the graphics chip and the keyboard) then it’ll boot most of the time and it’ll handle most everyday hits, (like picking it up from a table or closing the lid)
but eventually the rj45 loosen and it stops working
now I have 2 of bad boards but the bga reflow guys asks 300-400$ to resolder the chip (which is cheap for bga repair) but it’s obviously not worth it for such an old laptop
anyone ever heard of someone fixing this problem with a hot air gun maybe ? some kind of homemade reflow thing ?
-shodan
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:06 am
Dear c/2600,
I would like to thank you for your help. But I find solution for my problem on the site: http://www.repairspot.com/thin.....abling.htm
Important: The 8611 error is telling you that the Trackpoint or Keyboard for the Thinkpad has stopped working.
I just disable the Track Point in CMOS and everything is working perfectly.
Thanks anyway,
Branislav
February 19th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Branislav Jandric,
The link above worked absolutely fine for me.
Anyways, I downloaded the HMM and searched it by 8611, I found some information on the page62. Here’s a quote from the HMM:
February 19th, 2007 at 5:58 am
RE: …error is comming on the screen is
setup didnot find any hard disk drives installed in your
This IS NOT A HARDWARE FAULT!!
I had the exact same thing last week on a T60 after upgrading the BIOS,
CHECK IN Your bios settings menu
>Serial ATA ( SATA)
SATA controller mode option.
Default is AHCI
Change this to “Compatibility” save and exit.
OS setup will now be able to find the controller and hard disk without issue.
venuvendra Says:
February 8th, 2007 at 7:11 am
i have a one ibm think pad t60 laptop iwant to reinstall the oprating system but cnot done. the computer.
but hard disk showing in bios and already installed os are woking normally.what is the reason !