That motherboard didn’t last long
When I tried to turn on my Thinkpad from a hibernation this morning it reported that my hardware had changed. I quick check in the BIOS confirmed my worst fears, the second memory slot was no longer being detected. This means when IBM replaced the board (I confirmed it was changed when the internal network card’s MAC address changed) they replaced it with one that had the same problem but didn’t bother to do any of the fixes to prevent the problem occurring again. My opinion of IBM has gone down somewhat.
I’ll give them a call tomorrow morning because my warranty is running out fast. I’ll ask them about the new motherboard version that the American fixes get that permanently fixes the problem. There’s little point in getting another old board because it’ll just break again. I guess the alternative solution is to get a 1GB RAM stick and be content with that.
