Fixing a ThinkPad T30
2009 February 14
ThinkPad T30
I bought a used ThinkPad T30 on eBay. It did not have the maximum memory (1024MB) so I upgraded. Some months later the computer reported that it had 512MB of memory.
What happened? One of the slots had stopped working. Turns out that this is a known problem in ThinkPad T30s and there is a fix scary but effective. I found out by visiting ThinkPad Community ForumBill Morrow’s ThinkPad Community Forum and searching the archives. You use a soldering pencil to reflow the solder around the ram socket pins. Fortunately there is a discussion of this on the site.
I did it and it worked. In linux go to the shell or open an xterm and type
cat /proc/meminfo
Posted by The GNUinator
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