Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Expresscard Help

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230 (which I love dearly) and have a few question about ports and booting. I would first like to verify that the port on the left side of the laptop directly above one of the USB ports is indeed an ExpressCard 54. I have searched the web, but have yet to find a definite answer, and my user manual simply stated "ExpressCard." Furthermore, I would like to know if it is possible to boot an operating system from said port using an ExpressCard 34 SSD (64GB). I have the intention of installing openSUSE 12.3 to the potential SSD and be able to boot from it. I greatly appreciate any help. I would post an image of said port, but I am being told the image file is much too large.
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It is Expresscard 54 (5 Gbps max). But it doesn't support booting.
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Hi, welcome to the forum!
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I'm the lucky recipient of an early ThinkPad X230, it's a review I got yesterday and have had about 24 hours to mess with now (well, I did sleep, so make that 16). Happy to answer any questions, I'll copy and paste below much of what I wrote in the preview on LaptopReviews.com minus some of the images and video to be bandwidth friendly.
Earlier this week Lenovo announced the ThinkPad X230, a 12.5” screen ultraportable targeted at business buyers. While the X230 won’t go on sale via Lenovo.com until June 2012 (keep an eye on this X230 product page for availablility) we were lucky enough to receive an early review sample to try out. As most of you familiar with the ThinkPad brand know, change is generally slow from one generation to the next to keep the enterprise buying folks from getting all worked up. One thing that certainly almost never changed much was the keyboard. Until now that is. The X230 and the rest of the ThinkPad line have adopted a new keyboard styling that uses an island style key layout and drops down to six rows of keys from seven. There are a few other changes and added features, the keyboard backlighting being my personal favorite, but for the most part the X230 is just an evolution of the X220 design wise and of course has updated internal components to boost performance.
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ThinkPad X220 and X230 keyboard Comparison
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PgUp and PgDn move from the top row down to above the left and right arrow keys
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ThinkPad X230 typing test: 76 Words per minute, exactly the same result as the X220 but no typing mistakes
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And below is a picture of the backlight set at its strongest level:
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Size and Weight
While the ThinkPad X230 weighs 2.96lbs when you use the small sized 4-cell battery, Lenovo isn’t changing its marketing to call this an Ultrabook. The thickness ranges from 0.75-inches at the front to 1.05-inches at the back due to the slope. The 1” thickness is fat compared to the 0.68” the upcoming ThinkPad X1 Carbon will have. That under 3lbs of weight doesn’t hold for the standard 6-cell battery either, this review unit has a weight of 3lbs 7 ounces (3.44lbs).
Full First Thoughts Review Here

Thanks for the excellent review.
I am disappointed in the new keyboard choice, outside of the move to chiclet keys the move to 6 rows is just blasphemous. As a user and owner of 10+ thinkpads, the x220 and t420s will be my last.
Lenovo may not even care as the general business consumer doesn't favor one keyboard style over the other, but legions of thinkpad fans will be left behind. A sad state of things indeed.

Thinkpad X230 Battery issues

It's been about 5 months since I started to use my Thinkpad X230. Only three days ago it could work for 5-6 hours without charging. I could charge it at home, bring it to school and use it without charging. But suddenly the battery started to die in a short amount of time. Then I explored the battery settings a little bit. I found out it says "Battery Condition: poor" and "Your battery can 47% of its original full charge capacity."
It has warranty until 2015. So can Lenovo send me a new battery if I want so? Or is it a problem that warranty doesn't cover? Please help!!
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ercansen wrote:
Then I explored the battery settings a little bit. I found out it says "Battery Condition: poor" and "Your battery can 47% of its original full charge capacity."
If you are running WIndows 7 on your X230, go into Power Manager and find the Battery Maintenance function. Then run a Reset cycle on the battery and see how it comes up.
The microprocessor in the battery can get out of sync with the battery capacity the X230 think should be available and that can cretae the sort of issue you have described. Resetting the battery will resync the on board micrprocessor in eth battery with the expected battery capacity in Power Manager.
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Hi, MarcVDH
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Hope it helps,
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New to forum and opinions on the Lenovo T420 being my first Lenovo Thinkpad?

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hi paul_peria,
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Can you try Opening Device Manager and open Human interface Devices
Uninstall everything that starts under with "HID-"
If your are not done uninstalling all and it asked for a restart choose restart later then continue uninstalling the one's that starts with HID-
Then Restart your system, check if the touch functionality works.
Can you also check under System Properties windows if it shows touch input detected
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"No Internet access" yellow icon on ThinkPad X230 after updating Intel PROSet wireless drivers

I have a ThinkPad X230 that began to display the yellow exclamation point icon for "No internet access" after I did a batch of updates. It has an Intel Advanced-N 6205 wireless card and is updated to the newest BIOS. I tried everything I could find on Google to try and fix the issue, and found no issues in these forums to users having an issue. So after fighting with it for a day, I decided to wipe the system and reinstall Windows.
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A System Restore to revert to before the installation occurs does make the icon go away.
I did some more searching on Google and the Intel Community forums have a report of this same issue from a user on a Dell machine: http://communities.intel.com/thread/38498. There is no solution posted as of yet. I have posted my problem there now too.
Has anyone experienced this issue and is there any fix besides System Restore or a reformat if the new drivers get installed? I expect the drivers made available via TVSU to be rock solid, this is why I follow what TVSU even if there are newer drivers from the manufacturer sometimes.
Myself I use a T420s with an Ultimate-N 6300 wirelss card, and the newest Intel drivers installed onto my machine without issue. I also have a couple other X230 computers that I am pretty sure have the drivers as well already without problems. So I am wondering if there is some sort of firmware issue with the particular wireless card, or something is causing the drivers to not install in the correct way. Just my thoughts.
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I deploy a lot of X230 laptops and have been dealing with this issue. Since I cannot find any information about the cause and how to fix it I started looking more into it. The "No internet access" yellow icon starts appearing after installing items from System Update. So, with a new X230 I applied all Windows Update (which installed without issues) before going into System Update. After doing the Critical and most of the Rcommended (don't care for Access Connections) I proceeded to the Optional updates which I installed one at a time. When I installed the WiFi Driver for Intel cards 7(64), Version 15.6.1 and rebooted the system the yellow icon appeared with the "No internet connection" status. Everything still works though, I can still connect to the internet. Doing a driver rollback does not fix the problem. I did a system restore from a restore point prior the last System Update and the yellow icon went away. finished the rest of the Optional updates except the WiFi driver and all is well. This is what I did and went through, not sure if it will be the same for everybody. But Lenovo needs to look into that driver version.

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Problem Event Name:    BEX64
Application Name:    Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
Application Version:    7.2.1.4
Application Timestamp:    52aed7f3
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Fault Module Timestamp:    00000000
Exception Offset:    0000000000000000
Exception Code:    c0000005
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Locale ID:    1033
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Additional Information 2:    1dc22fb1de37d348f27e54dbb5278e7d
Additional Information 3:    eae3
Additional Information 4:    eae36a4b5ffb27c9d33117f4125a75c2

Unfortunately, the crash data you posted doesn't give us any clues.
It looks like the driver you're on is very fresh: 2014-1/5. Another user recently reported a different problem on a Lenovo w/ the K1000M (http://forums.adobe.com/message/5987620#5987620). Don't know yet what driver he's on, but if he's also on a new one, I'd begin to suspect a bug in the driver.
Some additional data could be illuminating. Premiere installs a utility called GPUsniffer. You'll find it here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC. However, unless you read quicker than I do--and I mean waaaay faster--launching it from there won't do much good. You'll have to open the command console, navigate to the path above, and type gpusniffer.exe. (Let me know if you need more explicit instructions for getting around in the console.) Then copy the report and paste it here.
edited to add: To help determine if the current Lenovo K2000M driver is at fault--and possibly get yourself back in business--please roll back to an earlier driver.

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