Re: T440s doesn't wake up from sleep

Friends:

Issue: Unable to get out of sleep and unable to get monitor to work properly on dock.

I experienced same on my T440p.  Here is what worked for me:

Update bios.  Verify that startup memory is 512K within bios (hit F1 at startup and locate menu item under video)

Update Docking station driver.

Updated my external monitor driver.

Used a VGA cord from docking station (Pro 90W) and set default to VGA on my monitor.  Inconsitent results from other connectors otherwise.

Verified that my Windows operating system AND my installed drivers were consistent.  If your company, like mine, choose to remain with a Win 7 system, then it may get confusing.  My new T440p is labeled Win 8, so some folks may be doing harm with upgrades/updates.

These things were done with unknown results (they may have helped):

Updated fingerprint driver.  I am having no issues and use it daily.  I did turn off password protection when one would awaken the computer just to prevent an issue there.

Verified that I am using the correct power cable to my dock.  If you don't use the 90W adapter (for the 90W unit, for example) you will get odd outcomes.  Mine included not being able to have the monitor powered on while computer was on dock.

Set the monitor priority on the desktop, not just the FN-F7 hotkey.  With your montor hooked up and powered on, right click on the desktop, go to Grpahic options, output to, clone displays, Built-in + Digital.  Then the FN-F7, or just F7 depending upon if your FN lock key is on or off, works fine.  I was stupid, by the way...FN lock is toggled using Fn and Esc keys.  Old eyes.

Cheers.

Mike

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T440s w/ Lenovo SSD dying? multiple events: The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.

I have a nearly new T440s with Lenovo-installed SSD - in scanning the event log this morning I found 20 events (all posted yesterday at the same time) that said: 

The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.

I'm not sure how much to panic.

Per Device manager this drive was mfg. by Samsung and lists the ID string:

device SCSI\Disk&Ven_SAMSUNG&Prod_MZ7TE512HMHP-000\4&90e12bd&0&000000

From some earlier poking around that I did, although the drive is mfg. by Samsung the  Samsung SSD managment tool:  The latest version of the "Samsung Magician"  - V4.4 does not recognize the drive ....

(which is a Samsung PM851 - The tool does not SAY it supports the PM851 only the PM850 drives… not sure if this is the issue or not…)

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html

I can't find any similar tool for SSD maintenance / managment on the Lenovo website  :-(

(just firmware updater...)

SMART Status says:

"Uncorrectable Error Count"  and ECC Error rate are both in "FAIL" status

I'll likely open a support ticket unless one of the group here has a good suggestion?

Any thoughts appreciated!

 Pointer to older thread:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/500MB-Lenovo-installed-SSD-mfg-by-Samsung-...

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T440s SCCM Driver Packages failing load into WDS

Moved to: Enterprise Management / IT

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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Re: T440s, major WiFi and Bluetooth instability

Another MAJOR problem with many recent models of Lenovo laptops is the Lenovo EMC Storage Coordinator program (I think that is it's name -- I removed it some time ago).  It periodically runs discovery.exe which results in a Denial of Service condition that locks the entire network the laptop is using -- both WLAN and LAN.

In a thread for the Yoga ThinkPad, Lenovo staff acknowledged the problem and recommended that the program be uninstalled immediately. 

This serious problem deserves a broadcast alert to all owners of affected models by Lenovo, but so far only acknowledgement in one thread that I've seen.

The symptom is no Internet access for about 5 minutes or more for all computers on the network!.  Task Manager shows a high volume of outbound network traffic from discovery.exe to a large group of 169.254.xxx.xxx addresses (shown in Resource Monitor).

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Re: T440S fan spinning ALL THE TIME!

I have had my T440s for 5 months now. However, I have been using it only for 3 months because the first 2 months were spent trying to solve other problems.

Since yesterday however, I have been consciously aware that the fan is spinning almost all the time.

I am posting this to ask if the fan spinning could be due to 1) any program I am running, or 2) an application I downloaded and tried installing yesterday (to be explained in more detail below). Actually, what I am primarily worried about is 2) as I did not know what I was doing (I am not proficient in high-level computer stuff).

 Now I know that people's first reaction is that I am running programs that consume the CPU and therefore the fan has to run to cool the parts. But that is evidently not the case. I have checked my Task Manager and it shows that there are 136 processes, with CPU usage being around 5% and Physical Memory being 41%. I have also attached a screenshot of my Task Manager - I have sorted the processes according to Memory (Private Working Set), and took a screenshot of the top portion. Please take a look and let me know if anything there might explain the constant fan spinning.

However, I also did something stupid in my computer yesterday and I am not sure if that was related to the fan spinning problem that I have since become consciously aware of.  I describe here in detail what happened:

I wanted to install an electronic dictionary in my Thinkpad. I did not want to pay for it (because I already paid for a Mac version but the license key is not transferrable to Windows PC). Vaguely understanding that there are 'cracked' versions of these things on the internet, I googled for a cracked version of the said dictionary. Apparently there was an entry for this dictionary in this website called Crack Inn:

xxxxxxxxxx

So I clicked 'Download KeyGen' and downloaded a zipfolder containing the following three files:

File_ID.DIZ (DIZ File; 1 KB)
TSRh.nfo (System Information File; 3 KB)
Ultralingua.french.english.col.crack.by.TSRh.exe (Application; 1039 kb)

Not even knowing what I was getting myself into, I just clicked the third application file. What happened was that a black window (I think it was a command window) popped up. This window showed nothing but the title of the file, stayed for a few seconds and disappeared. I clicked it again and the same thing happened (and no dictionary file was intalled, by the way).

I took a look at the properties of this file and the description states that it is a "7z Setup SFX small".

So I am not sure if clicking the file and conjuring up a command window somehow "messed up" my system, which caused this constant fan spinning. I have also noticed that my cursor has since become at times sluggish. I am not sure if all this is related to the application file I downloaded (which I have since deleted completely).

Please let me know. And even if the fan spinning problem can't be related to the attempted application installation, is there any way I can un-do what I did (because running an unknown program is stupid)?

Thank you!

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Re: T440s - ThinkPad has lost the magic.

The thing is you can go to just about any brand site including Apple and hear the same rants.

With Lenovo the traditionalist don't like change. 

Lenovo's big mistake was messing around with the ThinkPad line.  They have the Idea line to attract the new people over.  I just bought a X131e before the Chinese completely ruin the ThinkPad line.

   Link to picture

  Ain't she a beauty

  (my first ThinkPad)

I don't want a touch screen on a laptop.  And now that Windows 8.1 allows you to set it up to boot directly into desktop mode I'm leaving Windows 7 and my HP ultrabook for my little stubby Lenovo friend.   I almost went back to a MacBook Air.

Anyway, I hope you are lestining out there Lenovo.   People who buy ThinkPads are not looking for a fashison statement, now you even have a ThinkPad Yoga,  I mean what the hell is that.

What has made Apple so suscessful are their base who keeps coming back.  Your ThinkPad is what their Mac is.   If you lose that loyal following you'll simply drive that base away, that base that has the money to afford a ThinkPad much like that base who can afford a Mac Pro.

You can cater to the Starbuck hispster gender confused crowd and still maintain that conservative traditionalist notion, which is the ThinkPad.  And might I say most buy a ThinkPad because it is conservative and built upon tradiction.   There are some things in life that should never be changed just for thr sake of change.  It generally leads to dissatisfaction.

Are you still listening out there Lenovo ?

If you lose your core customers do you honestly think the Walmart Acer, Dell, Asus and HP crowd can afford one.  Do you really think you are winning any Apple Mac converts.

Are you a leader or just another follower putting out junk for the masses.

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Re: T440s losing wifi connection

Yes, I certainly agree that the wifi is much, much, much  better now, with the new driver 17.0.2. Yesterday I had a flawless day, with no connection drops whatsoever, perfect.  Today is going well, too. However, I have had two wifi drops today, when I have been multi-tasking with google and a word document, going back and forth.  After I have been on Word for about a half-hour straight, and then switched back to google, or  when I have simply let the machine sit idle for about 20 minutes, I found the connection was dropped. This has happened twice today.... Anyway, Lenovo, thanks very much for the 17.0.2 driver -- a great help.  But please keep on going, to iron out the remaining glitches.    

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Re: T440S fan spinning ALL THE TIME!

I have had my T440s for 5 months now. However, I have been using it only for 3 months because the first 2 months were spent trying to solve other problems.

Since yesterday however, I have been consciously aware that the fan is spinning almost all the time.

I am posting this to ask if the fan spinning could be due to 1) any program I am running, or 2) an application I downloaded and tried installing yesterday (to be explained in more detail below). Actually, what I am primarily worried about is 2) as I did not know what I was doing (I am not proficient in high-level computer stuff).

 Now I know that people's first reaction is that I am running programs that consume the CPU and therefore the fan has to run to cool the parts. But that is evidently not the case. I have checked my Task Manager and it shows that there are 136 processes, with CPU usage being around 5% and Physical Memory being 41%. I have also attached a screenshot of my Task Manager - I have sorted the processes according to Memory (Private Working Set), and took a screenshot of the top portion. Please take a look and let me know if anything there might explain the constant fan spinning.

However, I also did something stupid in my computer yesterday and I am not sure if that was related to the fan spinning problem that I have since become consciously aware of.  I describe here in detail what happened:

I wanted to install an electronic dictionary in my Thinkpad. I did not want to pay for it (because I already paid for a Mac version but the license key is not transferrable to Windows PC). Vaguely understanding that there are 'cracked' versions of these things on the internet, I googled for a cracked version of the said dictionary. Apparently there was an entry for this dictionary in this website called Crack Inn:

xxxxxxxxxx

So I clicked 'Download KeyGen' and downloaded a zipfolder containing the following three files:

File_ID.DIZ (DIZ File; 1 KB)
TSRh.nfo (System Information File; 3 KB)
Ultralingua.french.english.col.crack.by.TSRh.exe (Application; 1039 kb)

Not even knowing what I was getting myself into, I just clicked the third application file. What happened was that a black window (I think it was a command window) popped up. This window showed nothing but the title of the file, stayed for a few seconds and disappeared. I clicked it again and the same thing happened (and no dictionary file was intalled, by the way).

I took a look at the properties of this file and the description states that it is a "7z Setup SFX small".

So I am not sure if clicking the file and conjuring up a command window somehow "messed up" my system, which caused this constant fan spinning. I have also noticed that my cursor has since become at times sluggish. I am not sure if all this is related to the application file I downloaded (which I have since deleted completely).

Please let me know. And even if the fan spinning problem can't be related to the attempted application installation, is there any way I can un-do what I did (because running an unknown program is stupid)?

Thank you!

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Re: T440s - LG or AUO Display

Got my T440s (FHD non-touch) yesterday, it has that freaking LG screen. It's actually worse than a very bad TN panel on my 5 year old asus. It thought there were no worse screens out there. How can they even claim that's an IPS?! It always has this dark horizontal line spanning about 1/3 of the screen (i'd say 20-30% darker than the upper and lower edges), there is exactly 1 position where you can kind of be ok with the picture.

Another issue with this panel, which others have not mentioned here is actually color reproductoin. During win8 initial configuration you are asked to choose a color. I chose violet and the screen has three visible vertical swaths where the color shift towards blue from violet.

The touchpad won't register right-click in the upper right zone, so trackpoint is unusable.

I don't what to do now, try replacing the screen or ask for a refund and just forget about lenovo. It's definitely not what I paid for.

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Re: T440s - ThinkPad has lost the magic.

The thing is you can go to just about any brand site including Apple and hear the same rants.

With Lenovo the traditionalist don't like change. 

Lenovo's big mistake was messing around with the ThinkPad line.  They have the Idea line to attract the new people over.  I just bought a X131e before the Chinese completely ruin the ThinkPad line.

   Link to picture

  Ain't she a beauty

  (my first ThinkPad)

I don't want a touch screen on a laptop.  And now that Windows 8.1 allows you to set it up to boot directly into desktop mode I'm leaving Windows 7 and my HP ultrabook for my little stubby Lenovo friend.   I almost went back to a MacBook Air.

Anyway, I hope you are lestining out there Lenovo.   People who buy ThinkPads are not looking for a fashison statement, now you even have a ThinkPad Yoga,  I mean what the hell is that.

What has made Apple so suscessful are their base who keeps coming back.  Your ThinkPad is what their Mac is.   If you lose that loyal following you'll simply drive that base away, that base that has the money to afford a ThinkPad much like that base who can afford a Mac Pro.

You can cater to the Starbuck hispster gender confused crowd and still maintain that conservative traditionalist notion, which is the ThinkPad.  And might I say most buy a ThinkPad because it is conservative and built upon tradiction.   There are some things in life that should never be changed just for thr sake of change.  It generally leads to dissatisfaction.

Are you still listening out there Lenovo ?

If you lose your core customers do you honestly think the Walmart Acer, Dell, Asus and HP crowd can afford one.  Do you really think you are winning any Apple Mac converts.

Are you a leader or just another follower putting out junk for the masses.

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Re: T440s 1802 Unauthorized network card plug in...

Hi,

I bought a refurbished T440s with a rtl8192 wifi card. It doesn't work for my linux OS so I tried to replace it with Intel 7260.

I look at the FRU whitelist

http://download.lenovo.com/parts/ThinkPad/t440s_fru_list_20130724.pdf

And bought 04w3806 Intel 7260ac

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261423899805?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

But I still got "1802 unauthorized network card plugin" error at boot up.

What can I do??? Please help me.

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Re: T440S fan spinning ALL THE TIME!

I have had my T440s for 5 months now. However, I have been using it only for 3 months because the first 2 months were spent trying to solve other problems.

Since yesterday however, I have been consciously aware that the fan is spinning almost all the time.

I am posting this to ask if the fan spinning could be due to 1) any program I am running, or 2) an application I downloaded and tried installing yesterday (to be explained in more detail below). Actually, what I am primarily worried about is 2) as I did not know what I was doing (I am not proficient in high-level computer stuff).

 Now I know that people's first reaction is that I am running programs that consume the CPU and therefore the fan has to run to cool the parts. But that is evidently not the case. I have checked my Task Manager and it shows that there are 136 processes, with CPU usage being around 5% and Physical Memory being 41%. I have also attached a screenshot of my Task Manager - I have sorted the processes according to Memory (Private Working Set), and took a screenshot of the top portion. Please take a look and let me know if anything there might explain the constant fan spinning.

However, I also did something stupid in my computer yesterday and I am not sure if that was related to the fan spinning problem that I have since become consciously aware of.  I describe here in detail what happened:

I wanted to install an electronic dictionary in my Thinkpad. I did not want to pay for it (because I already paid for a Mac version but the license key is not transferrable to Windows PC). Vaguely understanding that there are 'cracked' versions of these things on the internet, I googled for a cracked version of the said dictionary. Apparently there was an entry for this dictionary in this website called Crack Inn:

xxxxxxxxxx

So I clicked 'Download KeyGen' and downloaded a zipfolder containing the following three files:

File_ID.DIZ (DIZ File; 1 KB)
TSRh.nfo (System Information File; 3 KB)
Ultralingua.french.english.col.crack.by.TSRh.exe (Application; 1039 kb)

Not even knowing what I was getting myself into, I just clicked the third application file. What happened was that a black window (I think it was a command window) popped up. This window showed nothing but the title of the file, stayed for a few seconds and disappeared. I clicked it again and the same thing happened (and no dictionary file was intalled, by the way).

I took a look at the properties of this file and the description states that it is a "7z Setup SFX small".

So I am not sure if clicking the file and conjuring up a command window somehow "messed up" my system, which caused this constant fan spinning. I have also noticed that my cursor has since become at times sluggish. I am not sure if all this is related to the application file I downloaded (which I have since deleted completely).

Please let me know. And even if the fan spinning problem can't be related to the attempted application installation, is there any way I can un-do what I did (because running an unknown program is stupid)?

Thank you!

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Re: T440s - LG or AUO Display

Got my T440s (FHD non-touch) yesterday, it has that freaking LG screen. It's actually worse than a very bad TN panel on my 5 year old asus. It thought there were no worse screens out there. How can they even claim that's an IPS?! It always has this dark horizontal line spanning about 1/3 of the screen (i'd say 20-30% darker than the upper and lower edges), there is exactly 1 position where you can kind of be ok with the picture.

Another issue with this panel, which others have not mentioned here is actually color reproductoin. During win8 initial configuration you are asked to choose a color. I chose violet and the screen has three visible vertical swaths where the color shift towards blue from violet.

The touchpad won't register right-click in the upper right zone, so trackpoint is unusable.

I don't what to do now, try replacing the screen or ask for a refund and just forget about lenovo. It's definitely not what I paid for.

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Re: T440S fan spinning ALL THE TIME!

I have had my T440s for 5 months now. However, I have been using it only for 3 months because the first 2 months were spent trying to solve other problems.

Since yesterday however, I have been consciously aware that the fan is spinning almost all the time.

I am posting this to ask if the fan spinning could be due to 1) any program I am running, or 2) an application I downloaded and tried installing yesterday (to be explained in more detail below). Actually, what I am primarily worried about is 2) as I did not know what I was doing (I am not proficient in high-level computer stuff).

 Now I know that people's first reaction is that I am running programs that consume the CPU and therefore the fan has to run to cool the parts. But that is evidently not the case. I have checked my Task Manager and it shows that there are 136 processes, with CPU usage being around 5% and Physical Memory being 41%. I have also attached a screenshot of my Task Manager - I have sorted the processes according to Memory (Private Working Set), and took a screenshot of the top portion. Please take a look and let me know if anything there might explain the constant fan spinning.

However, I also did something stupid in my computer yesterday and I am not sure if that was related to the fan spinning problem that I have since become consciously aware of.  I describe here in detail what happened:

I wanted to install an electronic dictionary in my Thinkpad. I did not want to pay for it (because I already paid for a Mac version but the license key is not transferrable to Windows PC). Vaguely understanding that there are 'cracked' versions of these things on the internet, I googled for a cracked version of the said dictionary. Apparently there was an entry for this dictionary in this website called Crack Inn:

xxxxxxxxxx

So I clicked 'Download KeyGen' and downloaded a zipfolder containing the following three files:

File_ID.DIZ (DIZ File; 1 KB)
TSRh.nfo (System Information File; 3 KB)
Ultralingua.french.english.col.crack.by.TSRh.exe (Application; 1039 kb)

Not even knowing what I was getting myself into, I just clicked the third application file. What happened was that a black window (I think it was a command window) popped up. This window showed nothing but the title of the file, stayed for a few seconds and disappeared. I clicked it again and the same thing happened (and no dictionary file was intalled, by the way).

I took a look at the properties of this file and the description states that it is a "7z Setup SFX small".

So I am not sure if clicking the file and conjuring up a command window somehow "messed up" my system, which caused this constant fan spinning. I have also noticed that my cursor has since become at times sluggish. I am not sure if all this is related to the application file I downloaded (which I have since deleted completely).

Please let me know. And even if the fan spinning problem can't be related to the attempted application installation, is there any way I can un-do what I did (because running an unknown program is stupid)?

Thank you!

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Re: T440s - ThinkPad has lost the magic.

The thing is you can go to just about any brand site including Apple and hear the same rants.

With Lenovo the traditionalist don't like change. 

Lenovo's big mistake was messing around with the ThinkPad line.  They have the Idea line to attract the new people over.  I just bought a X131e before the Chinese completely ruin the ThinkPad line.

   Link to picture

  Ain't she a beauty

  (my first ThinkPad)

I don't want a touch screen on a laptop.  And now that Windows 8.1 allows you to set it up to boot directly into desktop mode I'm leaving Windows 7 and my HP ultrabook for my little stubby Lenovo friend.   I almost went back to a MacBook Air.

Anyway, I hope you are lestining out there Lenovo.   People who buy ThinkPads are not looking for a fashison statement, now you even have a ThinkPad Yoga,  I mean what the hell is that.

What has made Apple so suscessful are their base who keeps coming back.  Your ThinkPad is what their Mac is.   If you lose that loyal following you'll simply drive that base away, that base that has the money to afford a ThinkPad much like that base who can afford a Mac Pro.

You can cater to the Starbuck hispster gender confused crowd and still maintain that conservative traditionalist notion, which is the ThinkPad.  And might I say most buy a ThinkPad because it is conservative and built upon tradiction.   There are some things in life that should never be changed just for thr sake of change.  It generally leads to dissatisfaction.

Are you still listening out there Lenovo ?

If you lose your core customers do you honestly think the Walmart Acer, Dell, Asus and HP crowd can afford one.  Do you really think you are winning any Apple Mac converts.

Are you a leader or just another follower putting out junk for the masses.

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Re: T440s - ThinkPad has lost the magic.

The thing is you can go to just about any brand site including Apple and hear the same rants.

With Lenovo the traditionalist don't like change. 

Lenovo's big mistake was messing around with the ThinkPad line.  They have the Idea line to attract the new people over.  I just bought a X131e before the Chinese completely ruin the ThinkPad line.

   Link to picture

  Ain't she a beauty

  (my first ThinkPad)

I don't want a touch screen on a laptop.  And now that Windows 8.1 allows you to set it up to boot directly into desktop mode I'm leaving Windows 7 and my HP ultrabook for my little stubby Lenovo friend.   I almost went back to a MacBook Air.

Anyway, I hope you are lestining out there Lenovo.   People who buy ThinkPads are not looking for a fashison statement, now you even have a ThinkPad Yoga,  I mean what the hell is that.

What has made Apple so suscessful are their base who keeps coming back.  Your ThinkPad is what their Mac is.   If you lose that loyal following you'll simply drive that base away, that base that has the money to afford a ThinkPad much like that base who can afford a Mac Pro.

You can cater to the Starbuck hispster gender confused crowd and still maintain that conservative traditionalist notion, which is the ThinkPad.  And might I say most buy a ThinkPad because it is conservative and built upon tradiction.   There are some things in life that should never be changed just for thr sake of change.  It generally leads to dissatisfaction.

Are you still listening out there Lenovo ?

If you lose your core customers do you honestly think the Walmart Acer, Dell, Asus and HP crowd can afford one.  Do you really think you are winning any Apple Mac converts.

Are you a leader or just another follower putting out junk for the masses.

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Re: T440s - ThinkPad has lost the magic.

The thing is you can go to just about any brand site including Apple and hear the same rants.

With Lenovo the traditionalist don't like change. 

Lenovo's big mistake was messing around with the ThinkPad line.  They have the Idea line to attract the new people over.  I just bought a X131e before the Chinese completely ruin the ThinkPad line.

   Link to picture

  Ain't she a beauty

  (my first ThinkPad)

I don't want a touch screen on a laptop.  And now that Windows 8.1 allows you to set it up to boot directly into desktop mode I'm leaving Windows 7 and my HP ultrabook for my little stubby Lenovo friend.   I almost went back to a MacBook Air.

Anyway, I hope you are lestining out there Lenovo.   People who buy ThinkPads are not looking for a fashison statement, now you even have a ThinkPad Yoga,  I mean what the hell is that.

What has made Apple so suscessful are their base who keeps coming back.  Your ThinkPad is what their Mac is.   If you lose that loyal following you'll simply drive that base away, that base that has the money to afford a ThinkPad much like that base who can afford a Mac Pro.

You can cater to the Starbuck hispster gender confused crowd and still maintain that conservative traditionalist notion, which is the ThinkPad.  And might I say most buy a ThinkPad because it is conservative and built upon tradiction.   There are some things in life that should never be changed just for thr sake of change.  It generally leads to dissatisfaction.

Are you still listening out there Lenovo ?

If you lose your core customers do you honestly think the Walmart Acer, Dell, Asus and HP crowd can afford one.  Do you really think you are winning any Apple Mac converts.

Are you a leader or just another follower putting out junk for the masses.

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Re: T440s 1802 Unauthorized network card plug in...

Hi,

I bought a refurbished T440s with a rtl8192 wifi card. It doesn't work for my linux OS so I tried to replace it with Intel 7260.

I look at the FRU whitelist

http://download.lenovo.com/parts/ThinkPad/t440s_fru_list_20130724.pdf

And bought 04w3806 Intel 7260ac

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261423899805?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

But I still got "1802 unauthorized network card plugin" error at boot up.

What can I do??? Please help me.

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Re: T440s: Disk Password cannot be set in Bios

thecaptcrunch

I will send it to you in a bit.

The Lenovo crypto erase tool is only for ATA Security Erase.  If the drive is in OPAL or eDrive mode, then the ATA Security commands don't work.  It's the same reason why you can't set HDD password.

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Re: T440s speaker noise

That's terrible. I hope they will do sth about it, because I wanna buy (or maybe I'm considering..) T440s during March.
And I can change my decision and buy sth cheaper or buy Macbook Pro or Air..

If this is only software issue, hopefully they will fix it, but if this is a hardware issue... (?)

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