Hi there, I don't know if you remember about my T40 and having to get a new motherboard for it. But I had the motheroard for half a year now and the Hard Drive is not reading. The good thing is it isn't doing what the other motherboard did, and that was freeze everytime you moved the laptop, but this is diffrent. I took out my Western Digital 160GB Hard Drive, "New" out and hook to a external USB Hard Drive connector and pluged it in to my ThinkPad T20 because there was a file on the desktop that wouldn't let me delete it, kept saying I needed permisson to delete file, So I removed the HDD and pluged externaly to my T20 and deleted that file and went to put back in my T40 and powerd up and went to the black screen "Intel (R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.17 Copyright 1997-2003 Operating System not found"
So I took it back out and pluged it back into T20 and Windows and my personal files are still on there, And it wasn't a Windows file that I deleted, it was a driver for another computer that was saved to the desktop and trans to my flash drive, and when didn't need on desktop, wouldn't let me delete it. The Green Hard Drive light under the LCD is always on now, even when you first press the power button on. thats when a hard drive is in it. So I took a old hard drive that don't work and makes noise when on and there is no noise. So Im guessing the Hard Drive connector does read but there is no power running to it.
I Put back in my 160GB Hard Drive today, and I can hear it running, but still get the no Operating system screen. Could it be the RAM? Windows Vista Requires 512MB at the lowest to run. And thats what it has until I can the 2GB RAM Later for it.I Put back in my 160GB Hard Drive today, and I can hear it running, but still get the no Operating system screen. Could it be the RAM? Windows Vista Requires 512MB at the lowest to run. And thats what it has until I can the 2GB RAM Later for it.
HI IM LOOKING FOR THE DRIVRS FOR MY LABTOP T40 I NEED ALL OF THEM I LOOKED IN TO IBM SUPPORT.COM BUT I CANT FIND IT SO IF ANYONE KNOW WHERER I MAY FIND IT HELP ME OUT THANK YOU
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If you have already tested and changed the RAM then from your description and the things you have done, it looks like you have a faulty motherboard.
This computer is too old to consider replacing the motherboard, if you could get one. If it was me I would put my money towards a new one.
You could use the hard drive, put it into and USB hard drive adapter case and use it as an external USB hard drive.
The reason that comes up is because the motherboard has a master password set on it and from my experience the hard drive may have a password set on it as well cause the hard drive and motherboard are linked to each other.
If the original owner can call IBM then they can get both passwords removed. If not then both the motherboard and hard drive will need to be replaced.
your hard drive may damaged or windows is corupted, try reinstalling windows if working then good or replace a new hard drive, and reinstall windows there.
you may have knocked your hard drive lose
are you getting any error messages
you can take the hard drive out put it back in and start up pc to see if that helped.
If the hard drive was'nt the problem you may have caused something else to be lose.
Shut pc down and try hard drive first
I have a T41 doing this, and pressing on the big ATI video chip (under the wireless card, under the touchpad) would change the machine's mood from bad to good (or vice versa). There are sites saying motherboard flex is the problem, and the solder balls of the video chip (GPU) are the weak link. There is a service on ebay the repairs the solder balls of ATI GPUs for $50, which I will be trying out. Or check Youtube for how to reflow the solder yourself with a 1500 watt heater and an infrared thermometer.
I Put back in my 160GB Hard Drive today, and I can hear it running, but still get the no Operating system screen. Could it be the RAM? Windows Vista Requires 512MB at the lowest to run. And thats what it has until I can the 2GB RAM Later for it.
www.lenovo.com and type ThinkPad T40 Drivers in Search box.
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