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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December 24th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
I have a T20 type 2647 win2k
laptop not powering on. when i press power button harddrive light just blinks.when power cord is plug on battery light blinks and same thing happens when i press the power button.
any suggestions will be great…
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Asif Iqbal,
Go the the task manager and find out witch application consumes a lot of CPU power and memory. Try ending the process and see if it helps. Maybe this application has to be reinstalled.
Also, I would run diagnostics test on the hard drive. You can use Hitachi’s drive fitness test, you’ll find link to this utility in Resources. It’s possible that the hard drive is failing.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:20 am
I have a Thinkpad T30. When I start my computer it load the Window XP as normal. When it comes to the ‘Welcome’ window, sometimes after a few seconds the Screen goes blank but I can still see the Processing Icon working on overdrive. I restarted my laptop and this time the desktop window comes up but my Processing icon is still working at overdrive when no application are running. When I open one application, it takes a long time to open. Also after several minutes, my screen goes blank again but the processing icon still at overdrive.
I have a 1 GB RAM and 2.00 Mhz Processor and this is the first time I am experiencing this. Before everything was working fine and quickly.
Any Ideas?
December 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Im tryin to find the power on password jumper pads on a thinkpad 380xd
December 9th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I have a thinkpad G40 and when i opened the laptop main case the power connection between LCD and motherboard became loose. now i can just see a dim image on the LCD. i am definitly sure that the problem is not of the LCD invertor, LCD backlight or LCD Cable malfunctiong. because i tested them with my friend laptop and they were ok. the problem is just about the LCD backlight power connection with the motherboard which happened when i inexperiencely opened my thinkpad main case. Can anybody kindly help me to solve my problem?
Many Thanks
December 9th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I have a IBM R51 i have the opposite problem of most of you, my lcd backlight wont dim, the keyboard controls showup on the screen as the bightness being dimmed and bightened but nothing happened, ibm told me to reseat the lcd cable connection on the botherboard… i did that and nothing happened, i was then told to delete the ibm video drivers and ibm keyboard drivers and update the bios .. did that and nothing happened, i even went so far as to reinstall XP SP2 to eiliminate all software problems … and i still have the problem… any ideas on what to try next ?
December 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Help!!!!!! Hi, I am having a few problems with a T41 after a rebuild. I have replaced the systemboard, but now don’t seem to be able to boot it up. When I switch it on the fan start and the battery and circle with a z in light up but it doen’t engage the hdd to boot. I can get it to boot if I lift the keyboard and press on the palm rest connecter, however if I take the pressue of this it freezes or if it get moved at all it freezies. I am guessing a connect but have double checked everything. Any ideas??
December 5th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Nevermind, that memory error was 1-3-4-3 – It was just a coincidence that after replacing a motherboard with a 3-1-4-3 issue, I installed a bad memory module and was able to produce a 1-3-4-3 error. After replacing the motherboard with the 3-1-4-3 error, and replacing the defective memory module, all was well in this case.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
KG: I’ve also found that the 3-1-4-3 issue in a T43 can also be a faulty PC4200 Module under the keyboard. I had a 3rd one like this today.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
KG: I ended up replacing both motherboards that were doing this. It resolved the 3-1-4-3 issue without having to replace anything else.