T400s No Sound

[Botta]

Happy New Year to everyone!

My right speaker died also... so i will not bother you anymore with CPU temps, at least not in this thread Anyway i am waiting for the new ones

[damonlynch]

Has anyone had their speakers repaired and then not had any problems after that? I had both my speakers repaired on a brand new t400s, only to have the left speker die again within a few weeks after what can only be described as very light use.

I'm beginning to get the feeling the machine is a lemon. The LAN has never worked (and in an attempt to fix that particular problem, the technician managed to swap in a motherboard with a slower CPU!!).

[ThinkpadT400s]

I just received my T400s yesterday, the first time I turn it on, it has no sound. How sad that is. We spend so much money on a Mercedes, and we don't want it performs like a 2nd hand motor-cycle.

I'm gonna call Lenovo today.

[ThinkpadT400s]

My T400s has no sound since day one. That is a DOA situation. I took my laptop to our local Lenovo store to see if it is a quick fix. After the diagnose, they told me they need to replace my speakers and motherboard.

I don't want to replace the motherboard, that is a brand new computer!

Does anybody have an experience of exchanging?

Or anyone here works closely with Lenovo could help me?

[warren64c]

So here we go.  My T400s, two weeks old, has failed speakers.  Lenovo is shipping it back for repair next week.  Sounds like a big design problem. 

I spent a few extra dollars for this laptop becasue I wanted a road durable machine.  Too bad the speaker issue is souring my taste for it.  I hope they can make an on the fly change on whatever is causing this behavior.

[ThinkpadT400s]

It looks like it is a design problem, the motherboard causes all those un-expected problems, such as no sound, random shut down. I'm guessing Lenovo is making some progress now, T400s and T410s are currently disappear from the official website. Hopefully I could get an exchange on that DOA situation.

[VPN-User]

There is a new BIOS available that might fix the problem (Luckily, I never experienced it anyway)

Version 1.12-1.02
BIOS: 1.12 / ECP: 1.02

• (Fix) Fixed an issue where the speaker might not work well.

[houtsma]

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VPN-User wrote:

There is a new BIOS available that might fix the problem (Luckily, I never experienced it anyway)

Version 1.12-1.02
BIOS: 1.12 / ECP: 1.02

• (Fix) Fixed an issue where the speaker might not work well.

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Funny. "where the speaker might not work well" by which they mean "where the speaker is blown up" ;-)

Or it's a different problem they fixed....

Anyway, luckily i didn't experience that either.

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jan

[UberSteve]

Version 1.12-1.02
BIOS: 1.12 / ECP: 1.02

• (Fix) Fixed an issue where the speaker might not work well.

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LOL, a BIOS/ECP update is not going to fix this!

[VPN-User]

Okay let' s call it 'may prevent the problem from occuring' then.