T400 acting its age: Anyone know where I can download the old Lenovo Toolbox?

My T400 2764-CTO still has life in it but has been acting weird. Several times I've had a no-lights situation where nothing happened -- complete and total blackout. I followed a suggestion I read somewhere that this might relate to the backup battery (CMOS) and replaced it and reset the date and time in the BIOS and it worked fine for a couple of weeks till the same thing happened again. Now, if I remove and then reinsert the CMOS it seems to fix it for a while. I just updated the BIOS. Frankly, I have no idea what I'm doing, just sort of feeling my way around to trying to resuscitate the old beast since we still need it. I'm running Windows 7 Pro, 32 Bit. Lenovo's web site has apparently removed anything that might support this machine. Anyone have any ideas?

 

Hi. Support for T400 is still available! Go to Lenovo's support site: support.lenovo.com
Type in 2764CTO in the Quick Path field and then click the drivers/software link on right to get what you need. Hope this helps.

 

Why do you think the Lenovo Toolbox is going to help solve your problem? Given that reseating the CMOS battery actually did something (or so it seems), I'd venture that there's a hardware problem rather than a software problem?

 

By total blackout, do you mean failure to boot (with no lights turning on), or spontaneous shutdowns?

 

I mean failure to boot. It boots when I reseat the CMOS though.

 

Reseating only does so much, i recommend that your replace the CMOS battery with a new one and hopefully the issue resolves on its own.