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

[Jerry Feldman]

Since this was well within the warranty period I sent the unit back.

On 05/09/2015 10:19 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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