A/B Test T60p Error 2100 - Hard drive initialization error - Help Understanding Results SSD Drive

[MTUser2009]

Hello,

I have a T60p 2.33Ghz T7600 that I sped up by using an SSD drive from OCZ. It has been working great for about a year. All of a sudden, I start getting the infamous HD 2100 error. But here is the good news, because this is an SSD drive, all you do is turn of the notebook and reboot, and everything works. The trouble is, at first it was once a week, now it is after about 30mins.

Here is the A/B test: Because my work is so critical, I have 4 identical T60p laptops that I use as spares. One goes down, pull the hard drive, move it to another. I use Acronis to make images of my hard drives. My first thought was the SSD drive was going bad, so I was going to put an image on a regular drive and put that back in the original unit. However, the first A/B test I did was to put the SSD drive in another T60p. Here is what I don't understand: The different T60p has run now with the SSD for about 9 hours with no 2100 error.

This experiment makes me believe something on my main board is going bad. The error is not from the hard drive. My hypothesis is that main boards when they fail are damaging the non-SSD hard drives, and the main board is the problem not the drives.

Does anyone have any evidence to support or negate this hypothesis? I have tried to find information on what the exact problem is that gives rise to the 2100 error in ThinkPads without success. 

[ConnectDon]

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MTUser2009 wrote:

One goes down, pull the hard drive, move it to another. 

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Perhaps the SATA connector on laptop A is no longer as tight as the SATA connector on laptop B.  I would use a note card to shim the SSD in laptop A and see if that takes care of the error.

[MTUser2009]

Great suggestion. Thanks. Any idea if the shim should be on top or bottom of the hard drive?

Moderator edit: Cleaned up blockquote.

[ConnectDon]

It should be on the bottom, to lift the drive up.  I wouldn't imagine that it would take much.  Those connectors aren't made for a lot of swapping, so that's the reason for my guess.  For some reason that error seems to occur more often with OCZ drives and T60p/T61p ThinkPads.  I'm not sure why.  I do know most of the success stories I come across focus on the connectors.