[Discuss] Boot issues on Thjinkpad W520 with SSD -- resolved

[John Abreau]

I've seen similar intermittent behavior on four separate systems over the
years. Two I just gave up on and replaced, and for the other two, I found
that one had a cracked motherboard and the other had a cracked solder
joint.

I was able to fix the bad solder joint, but I replaced the laptop with the
cracked motherboard. If it has still been within its warranty period, I
would have had the motherboard replaced, but eBay purchases typically don't
come with extended warranties.



On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> Back in March I bought a refurb Lenovo Thinkpad W520. After installing
> Linux, I performed an update. Went to the installfest, worked fine. But
> at the following BLU meeting it would not boot. I repeated the
> proceedure a few times, and over a short period of time, the kernel
> would load but would not complete the boot. I had 1 additional issue
> where there was a vertical green line on my display (that was
> intermittent). So, I returned the unit. They sent me a new unit as a
> replacement that works perfectly. So, it appears that the issue was a
> hardware issue. The replacement unit is now running Fedora 21 with the
> latest Fedora kernel. (3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64.
>
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