Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440
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Lenovo T440
So here is the info to date. The laptop was having issues, one of which was HDD0 Missing HDD not Found while booting.
So we ship the laptop back to lenovo to address that, they ship the laptop back with no changes at all, but a new and shiny install of Windows 7.
I again have the same issues, take a picture, print it off, put it into the laptop and create a new ticket for the same exact issue that occurred originally.
Ship it back to Lenovo, they replace the motherboard, the SSD and installed a clean copy of Windows. Now the wireless NIC performance is so-so Working fine one minute, and not at all the next. Now what? (besides the obvious ship this laptop back again for the 3rd time). . .
It's a sporadic spottiness as well. One minute the laptop will receive full signal, the next it has 1 or no signal at all. Yet the laptop hasn't moved at all.
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Ask them to replace the laptop since this will be the third time you have sent it back.
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What @dafyre said but also, I've had nothing but bad experiences with Lenovo it seems like. For some reason my company is a Lenovo shop. I have no idea why. I really would avoid buying from them in the future if you have a choice.
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@dafyre Yeah... maybe....
@wirestyle22 that isn't my call unfortunately...
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@DustinB3403 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@dafyre Yeah... maybe....
@wirestyle22 that isn't my call unfortunately...
I figured
Hang in there -
Sunk cost fallacy here.
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I feel bad for all of you forced to keep Lenovo anything around: http://fortune.com/2015/12/08/lenovo-solution-center-hack/
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Take the laptop out and trade it for $20 worth of crack, then go buy a Dell or something. Win/win.
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@RojoLoco said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Take the laptop out and trade it for $20 worth of crack, then go buy a Dell or something. Win/win.
Can I opt for beer instead of narcotics?
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@travisdh1 Older issue, but yeah.... I'd just as soon install our own image on it. But I don't want Lenovo attempting to use that as an excuse....
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@DustinB3403 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@RojoLoco said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Take the laptop out and trade it for $20 worth of crack, then go buy a Dell or something. Win/win.
Can I opt for beer instead of narcotics?
I guess... if you can find a beer dealer standing around that will take trades like that.
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Have you checked to see if the antenna wires are properly attached to the wireless card? Fairly likely to have been pulled during a motherboard swap out and I swear those little bastards are never the same after you disconnect them once.
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@NDC said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Have you checked to see if the antenna wires are properly attached to the wireless card? Fairly likely to have been pulled during a motherboard swap out and I swear those little bastards are never the same after you disconnect them once.
I haven't because I have warranty on the device, so I'm not touching this thing besides to confirm its usability.
Normally I would, and that is what I'm assuming as well...
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@DustinB3403 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@NDC said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Have you checked to see if the antenna wires are properly attached to the wireless card? Fairly likely to have been pulled during a motherboard swap out and I swear those little bastards are never the same after you disconnect them once.
I haven't because I have warranty on the device, so I'm not touching this thing besides to confirm its usability.
Normally I would, and that is what I'm assuming as well...
You're correct. Don't open it.
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@wirestyle22 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@DustinB3403 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@NDC said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Have you checked to see if the antenna wires are properly attached to the wireless card? Fairly likely to have been pulled during a motherboard swap out and I swear those little bastards are never the same after you disconnect them once.
I haven't because I have warranty on the device, so I'm not touching this thing besides to confirm its usability.
Normally I would, and that is what I'm assuming as well...
You're correct. Don't open it.
Right, don't open it. I wonder if it got one of the lucky superfish enabled wifi adapters?
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"So long, Lenovo... and thanks for all the Superfish!"
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@travisdh1 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@wirestyle22 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@DustinB3403 said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@NDC said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Have you checked to see if the antenna wires are properly attached to the wireless card? Fairly likely to have been pulled during a motherboard swap out and I swear those little bastards are never the same after you disconnect them once.
I haven't because I have warranty on the device, so I'm not touching this thing besides to confirm its usability.
Normally I would, and that is what I'm assuming as well...
You're correct. Don't open it.
Right, don't open it. I wonder if it got one of the lucky superfish enabled wifi adapters?
supposedly that was solved by releasing a driver without superfish.
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Dominica's Lenovo crashed hard tonight. That thing with Win 10 crashed like once a month. Asus with Ubuntu, never.
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@scottalanmiller said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Dominica's Lenovo crashed hard tonight. That thing with Win 10 crashed like once a month. Asus with Ubuntu, never.
Where you still using the WiFi card that came with it? It was totally worth the $65 investment in a third party card for my Yoga. After that - all problems just gone!
And I upgraded to AC, it came with N.
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@Dashrender said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
@scottalanmiller said in Wireless Card Spottiness - Lenovo T440:
Dominica's Lenovo crashed hard tonight. That thing with Win 10 crashed like once a month. Asus with Ubuntu, never.
Where you still using the WiFi card that came with it? It was totally worth the $65 investment in a third party card for my Yoga. After that - all problems just gone!
And I upgraded to AC, it came with N.
Yes, still using the Lenovo hardware.
