I traded my hx4700 and accessories for a non-working thinkpad R31, I knew it wasn't working but I figured I could get it to work. Okay, long story short, here are the problems. If I hit the power button, sometimes the drives will spin up, but usually not. If they do spin up (once every 20 tries) then once ever 20-30 of those it will actually POST. Sometimes I get CMOS errors, sometimes the video is whack (IBM logo distorted) other times the text has alot of ghosting. Rarely, but it has been done, the thinkpad will actually boot into windows, and it will work fine for a while, then I'll blue-screen to a memory error. My first thought was a bad CMOS, but after replacing that with no change, my next thought is the RAM. That would explain the blue-screen mem errors, the video output distortion, inablility to POST et cetera because everything is loaded into RAM. But I want to see if anyone else has any input before I go drop $150 on 512 RAM and not have it work. Furthermore, if anyone has any old laptop RAM (SD, 128 megs or dual 64s) that I could have/borrow for testing that would be awesome. PM me.
Thanks for any input!
