IBM Thinkpad T30 RAM Flaw

IBM Thinkpad T30

Type: 2366

Manufactor Date: July 2003

OS: Windows XP Pro SP3

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.9 Ghz

RAM: 512 MB

HARD drive: Hitachi DK23FA-60

Graphics card: ATi Mobility 7500 w/16 MB RAM Radeom

I realize it's a very old laptop but it still works to this day and I use it every day.

I've been a bit online and I found that there is a design with the motherboard fault. More precisely the location of the hard drive and RAM above the other causes a lot of heat build-up to this place. IBM (now Lenovo) offered a repair or replacement of the laptop for a few years I know. My question is Lenovo continues to do this or not? I got this laptop a month ago and a half, so I have not long. Unfortunately I have no money to even pay for the repair and even less to ship for repair. Is there something I can look at?

Welcome to the forum!

It's been years since the replacement program of the Board of Directors on T30 units had ended.

Your best bet is to install a single 1 GB DIMM in the 'healthy' location and use the machine like this if one of the RAM slots failed.

Good luck.

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