T61 One long beep, two short beeps...and dead

[tigerwong]

Hi ALL ! I need help here!

I contact the lenovo canada today about my graphic card failure in T61. The woman even did let me finish and hanged up on me! I am very angry!

Just as you mentioned, I had one long and two short beeps. What should I do right now? How much will to be to repair it? Thanks. I am in Canada.

[Lucy_123]

  Dear all,

    I have problem with my laptop T61 (bought in 2007). When I press power to start, it shows black screen with 1 long beep and 2 short beeps. I tried to change RAM but still get that error so i wonder whether this is defect of Lenovo's mainboard (as i have read some forums mentioned to this). The warranty is expired, so in this case whether my laptop is replaced free and who I can contact to ask about this? I highly appreciate for your help.

Thanks,

Lucy

[hausman]

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Lucy_123 wrote:

i wonder whether this is defect of Lenovo's mainboard

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Unfortunately, yes.

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[TuuS]

Lucy, these aren't officially considered defective, but they do have an above average failure rate. Lenovo did replace boards that were out of warranty for over a year, but that ended well over a year ago. I'm afraid your options now are to replace the board with another nVidia board, or one with Intel graphics.

Good Luck

[Lucy_123]

Hey TuuS!

     I've heard from my friends that i have to replace all mainboard, can not replace Nvidia board only, is this correct?

Thanks,

Lucy

[TuuS]

The nVidia chip is part of the system board, so you have to replace it, but you can replace with eithre a board with nVidia or Intel graphics.

[pingpong]

Greetings all,

I just registered because the 1-long 2-short beeps error has just happened with my T61p.  I've owned it for four and a half years and it has been a workhorse for me.  The manner in which this error started happening, however, leaves me scratching my head with suspicion whether my case is a true hardware failure.

Two days ago,  I was updating Windows (Win 8 Consumer Preview, x64).  The computer needed to reboot to finish the installation.  Instead, it gave me the beeps + no screen.  This seems fishy to me, almost like a false positive.  Is that even possible?

On that note, is it possible for a software update to cause a hardware failure like this?

TIA

[dsavard]

No, this is really a hardware problem, at the level at which the beeps happen, it haven't yet load anything from the disk/MBR. It is just coincidence the problem shows up after you have upgraded.

[pingpong]

OK, well I'm still in a huge state of denial.  It's really hard for me to accept (at this point) it was pure coincidence. 

The day it happened, I was using my computer with no problems--just like it had run for me every day.  Then I randomly decided to go to Windows Update and install the latest fixes.  After downloading and installing, Windows gave me the option to restart now or later; I chose now.  The computer shut down properly, then gave me the beep errors when trying to restart. 

Given the sequence of those events--along with the fact that I'm running a beta OS--makes me want to believe that the failure was a direct result of updating.  Granted, I can't think of any explanation how a software update could do such a thing.  But I also think that if I hadn't bothered with the update, my T61p would still be running now.

[eecon]

Welcome the the Forum ..... Please trust me when I suggest it was a coincidence ..... This thread runs back several years and 128 pages with a few thousand postings and not once was any software update found to be the issue.

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