From: Donald Mak (dvmak_at_ibm.net)
Date: Sat Jan 16 1999 - 01:06:45 EST
Part of that good service is why you paid the high price.(G)
You had said that the system failed after flasshing the BIOS. A while back
there
were problems with wrong BIOS's and software intended for other systems
being mixed up. The system not booting past the mem count sounds like a
symtom of a bad flash.
In that's the case IBM is getting sloppy in managing the FTP's and downloads
which could cost them dearly.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Tan Wing Wah <warren_at_warrentan.com>
To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 12:17 AM
Subject: RE: [770ED] It won't boot!!!
>Thanks to all who replied! I sent it back to IBM and they repaired it is
>less than 18 hours! The motherboard and processor were replaced.
>
>While I must admit that the service was good, I still can't phantom how a
>machine as ridiculously expensive as this can just fail after a few days.
I
>mean, even my cheap Acers didn't do this to me. Or am I just the unlucky
>one with the one-machine-in-a-million failure rate?
>
>Two other issues I wish to discuss with the list:
>
>1. I'm no fan of Windows, but I've grown to use the "start" button on
>keyboards quite a lot. Imagine my surprise to see the Thinkpad without the
>start button on the keyboard! I'm using Windows 98 now, any ideas how I
can
>reprogram the left "ctrl" key to become the "start" key?
>
>2. The modem is horrible. It's not my phone line, because both my desktop
>and my Xircom 56k modem using the same phone line can achieve 46000bps
>rates. My el expensivo Thinkpad's modem, shame on it, has only been up to
>32000 max. Any suggestions on improving it? The v.90 upgrade didn't help.
>Or are we all befalled with this same fate?
>
>Thanks, happy computing!
>
>
>
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