My Thinkpad T41 Problem

As per seen in other videos over the internet, I guess the ATI chip fail on mine too. This problem has already becoming problem for T40, T41 and also T42, as per my reading. I bought this laptop few days ago. 1st and 2nd day everything work fine. On the 3rd day, it started to show some abnormalities where the screen goes blank. When I tilt up the bottom part up a bit, the display back to normal for a while and then become blank again.

I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 to test whether this is the hardware or software problem. Unfortunately, the same problem still appearing.

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• thinkpad
• ibm
• t41
• ati
• radeon
• mobility
• lenovo
• t40
• t42
• video
• chip

[walikard]

Thanks for commenting guys. I'll check on the inverter board later on. Hopefully it'll solve my problem. Thanks again

[AWAZPLUS57]

THIS LAPTOP IS WONDERFUL NO PROBLEM JUST FOR A USE ERROR OR HARDWARE PROBLEM IS POSSIBLE PL Z ENJOY YOUR SELF

[RakeyRaker]

@ walikard what gpu is this?

specifically... many thanks.

[MrPeaswar]

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[ratsmart9]

@walikard I have to tell you that is is not the inverter, It is the video card... It needs to be re-flowed.

(I have the same problem too.)

[MrBlackBow]

maybe your lap fall-down hard