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    T510 - PCI System Error Bus/Device/Function 00F0h

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by oct, Nov 12, 2011.

  1. oct

    oct Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    Getting subj error on my wife's T510, any hint what can I check? All i can tell it got much hotter before freezing and after restart started to get this...

    However Windows 7 is starting fine, seems at least... I tried to google but nothing close could be found..

    Thank you in advance.

    PS: Never had any issues before, for at least 1 year...
     
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    oct Notebook Evangelist

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    Bump.

    Now it doesn't start at all... after pressing power button screen is blank... so, system board is fried?

    This sucks... $1K for one year of usage... deep disappointment.
     
    oct, Nov 14, 2011
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    Pull the battery, hard drive, memory, optical drive and wifi card. Hit the power button 10 times for a second, then once again for 30 seconds. Plug the AC in and hit the power button. If the board doesn't beep, it's most likely dead. If it does, try replacing things one at a time to see if you can find the culprit. Good Luck.
     
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    Ha! Thanks a lot! Looks like it may be the Wi-Fi...

    I took everything out and got those beeps. Putting them back one by one.. showed it may be the Wi-Fi... though initially I just disconnected it. The 00f0h error disappeared...too!

    Now, I'll let it run for a while without wifi and see how it goes...

    Thanks again!
     
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    Error came back, though it's much stable without Wi-Fi card.

    I'll try to take them out and put back again...

    Btw, what does 10 times + 1 x 30 sec press do? Does it reset any errors or what?

    Thanks.
     
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    Static discharge.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 15, 2011
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    Thanks!

    So, at this point I have following:

    - put wi-fi adapter back and changed RAM(just to make sure)
    - no subj error so far
    - i replaced CPU/GPU thermal paste
    - laptop would start fine on cold start only
    - if it gets to windows, it works fine
    - I performed some CPU crash test for an hour and temperature did not get passed 55C, which is nice, but not sure if it's normal..

    Now the problem starts when I'm doing a simple restart. During it I get a blank screen, it's right before Thinkpad logo is displayed. Sometimes it will display it, but it hangs there. F1 won't get me into BIOS... if I turn it off and leave for a while it works fine again...

    Now, I wonder if I messed up something with thermal paste, though the CPU test I mentioned earlier passed OK, i think.

    PS: Cpu is i5-540m
     
    oct, Nov 15, 2011
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    You could run memtest on the memory to rule that out.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 15, 2011
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