Hi there, * shorty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote at [20060105 07:30]: > Hi Folks, > Some time ago I started having problems with my cd drive in my R40 > Thinkpad. Sometimes it would be detected at boot, other times not. > I also started to get hangs at boot time (the thinkpad bios POST screen > and grub loading stage 1.5, hanging for about 30 secs) I thought the drive > was dying so I removed it and the hanging problem disappeared. Anyway, > after a while I found a cheap upgrade and put it in the machine, and > now I am back to having grub hang at stage 1.5. The drive seems to work ok, > (can even boot from it) but there are a few errors in the logs regarding the > drive. Heres a few.
Hmm, i'm not sure if your problem is the one i had on my R40, but i can tell you it started very much the same way. Then after having that that for a while, black screen touched in (you power on and there is no response, try again and works), following errors to detect the memory. In the end i ended up having to send in the thinkpad to IBM. They exchanged the motherboard and upgraded it to the latest controler and bios. Since then it works like a breeze. I don't want to paint the devil on the wall for ya, but it just sounds way to familiar. What might help you to detect the actual cause of hanging, you can switch of the quick boot in the bios... dunno if that will help you. [..] rest of quote deleted -- Martin Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG-Encrypted mail preferred, KEY: 0D459A72
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