Bloody machines

[juliet]

Right. So, not only did the Palm restore go Horribly Wrong, leading to loss of all data save my keyring stuff (so, um, if I had your address, I don't any more. Email it me if you think I should have it. Thankfully the mobile hasn't lost people's phone numbers - YET). But having finally gotten around to trying to sort my laptop out to do wireless magic, the memory's fucked & it won't boot.

I am *not* going to start hitting things. I am going to have a nice bath & sulk.

Anyone out there know anything about Thinkpad memory? I've had a brief prod at the inside, & everything useful appears to be hidden underneath the battery with big DO NOT MOVE notices all over it.

<sigh>
It's not like I really *need* a laptop anyway, I suppose. We do have Pete's work laptop for use in the garden, even if it *is* Windows.

This is not a good day for me & technology, clearly.

Comments

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

someone been letting off EMP bombs nearby?

[neilf.livejournal.com]

Which model Thinkpad?

On most TPs the memory is under a flap on the bottom, so it should be easily accessable.

[juliet]

I had a look, & the only flap on the bottom appears to conceal the thing that the HD plugs into. It's quite an *old* Thinkpad - 760ED.

[neilf.livejournal.com]

A quick ferret around ibm.com produced the following:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/support/thinkpad/uguide/760x/mmxmst22.html#HDRICINST

Which should show you how to get at the memory. It doesn't look to nasty a process actually.

There's actually quite a lot of support stuff on the IBM site, you just need to do a search on the model number.

[juliet]

Thank you muchly! I should have thought to do that, really, I was just in the throes of despair last night :-) I'll have a look this evening. The 201 error referred to in that page is what I've been getting, so it's possible that removing & reinstalling might do the trick (fingers crossed...). Cheers!