T400 / T500 and newer T series ThinkPad Laptops

[#1]

I have a T400 + purchased about one year ago. It exhibited nthinklight non lighting , I deposited it a Thinkpads service centre at mumbai with due diligince.

  The engineer says he had to replace the planar(I preume the motherboard.

I got the machine to my table and it started giving ..pool error..No safe mode boot, no recovery ..possibel.

   My friend had paid a ransom of 50-70 $ to upgradde the os to xp.

The enginner has returned it bcak to me but I cant get the wxga+ resolution.There are no drivers in the directory and thinkvantage pogram. The free for 3 months office(of microsoft) has also vanished. I had intels turbo memory also

which never worked under XP sp 2/3.

model:2765-T6U

It has a vista serial number at the back.

The 9 cell battery is showing a maximum after charge of approx 3 Hrs only now.

The lcd resolution is showing  max 1152 by 864 pixels.

 please help me to procedd so that i can get some useful service from thses inginneers.

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[#2]

its not lenovo's fault for turbo memory to not work in xp. blame intel for that. all drivers and utilities are available on lenovo's website or via system update.

[#3]

It is possible when they were working on your system that they changed the power manager settings which would change the amount of runtime while you're on battery.  From the sound of it, they may have messed with the configuration of the system.

You can either use the System Update utility to reinstall all drivers or you can do them manually from Lenovo's site. 

Again, I would especially check the power manager and make sure that you are in a battery friendly setting.  My 9cell T500 gets 9 hours with the power settings set fairly balanced for watching video on airplanes (so not all the way down).  And in max performance it manages a little over 2:30..  so it can make a huge difference.

[#4]

How long it lasts for a T400 with a 9-cell battery?

I tried different kinds power management scheme. Never see it can be used for longger than 6hrs.

[#5]

I don't know how long it last in a T400,  there are alot of things which influence the length of the battery life, usage habbits, HD, Memory, Screen brightness, the age and charging habits with the battery.

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bosomfriend wrote:

How long it lasts for a T400 with a 9-cell battery?

I tried different kinds power management scheme. Never see it can be used for longger than 6hrs.

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[#6]

  I am depositing the stink back to the service centre .The Trained engineer has consented to  put in

his paid time to do the setup. Though I know that  I should try on my own, I want to get something out of the warranty 

that Lenovo provides.