Re:The ThinkPad T420 – the last laptop you'll ever need
by zaroth on Sunday February 05, 2023 @09:31PM
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My old company bought so many of these, and they all had their monitors die in exactly the same way after just over a year.
They would get a 1” wide band of noise going vertically up and down the entire screen, you could tap on the base of the bezel around where the noise was and it would go away (a dying ribbon cable or connector?) for a bit and then come back.
Eventually tapping would have to be harder and harder to get the noise the stop, until it would never stop.
It was certainly the last ThinkPads I ever bought.
They would get a 1” wide band of noise going vertically up and down the entire screen, you could tap on the base of the bezel around where the noise was and it would go away (a dying ribbon cable or connector?) for a bit and then come back.
Eventually tapping would have to be harder and harder to get the noise the stop, until it would never stop.
It was certainly the last ThinkPads I ever bought.