Thinkpad T530 powering up issue

I have a T530 Thinkpad. When I turned it on this morning, the lights came on and then went out again, right away. I have been trying it off and on many times. I even took the battery out for a while and tried to no avail!
Thanks to whomever can shed light on this!

You may have a similar problem I do with my T430.
My Solution Center just updated itself and it seems that they put back an old bug from last year where it does not recognise some of the smaller power cords. As a result, it simply refuses to accept power from these cords. In order for it to charge, I have to trick it by putting it in airplane mode: this way it is expecting a weaker charge.
Something similar may have happened to your T530 and, if you failed to notice it, resulted in your battery completely discharging. Maybe you could take the battery to a store, or a friend with a similar computer, to see if they can charge it for you so that you can open your computer and put it in airplane mode while Lenovo fixes the problem.
Hope this helps.

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Thinkpad T530 Integrated Camera no longer works

Hi, I bought my ThinkPad T530 laptop in August of this year and about a month ago I used the Lenovo ThinkVantage updater and it updated the driver for my web cam. Ever since then it has stopped working.
Whenever I open the web conferencing menu, it only shows options for the microphone, and nothing for the camera. I have tried hitting Fn+F6 and accessing it via other software e.g. Skype, Oovoo, Picasa. And they say that my webcam cannot be detected.
When I checked for the webcam in device manager it said it was installed and working properly, and that the driver was up to date. I went to the lenovo website and downloaded the driver for the camera from there (g1ca16ww) and tried to update the driver manually hoping that that would fix the problem. Alas, it did not. I also checked the BIOS settings to make sure that the camera was enabled. It was. So then I tried to reinstall the driver by uninstalling it, and using the driver I downloaded from the Lenovo website to reinstall. It installed properly, but now the webcam is no longer listed in the hardware manager and the dropdown for Imaging Devices, where it was located before, is no longer visible. I also rechecked the BIOS menu to make sure the camera was still listed there and it is. I do not know why it isn't working. Does anyone know how to fix it? I have also tried system restore and that didn't work either, the device still isn't listed. I don't want to have to wipe my computer. Please help.
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Hi HLemieux,
I researched your issue and this is what I found from the Lenovo Assisted Search:
"If your webcam on your laptop is not working, try these following steps:
1. Be sure your webcam driver is installed. (It can be found at http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/ot/en/DriversDownLoads/Drivers.html)
2. By checking the webcam if it is disabled by Fn+Esc.
If you see the cross line on the webcam sign press to Fn+Esc to enable the webcam.
3. If you do not see the webcam sign on the right corner of display after pressing Fn+Esc, be sure your Energy Management is installed. (It can be found at http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/ot/en/DriversDownLoads/Drivers.html)
After you download the Energy Management driver from Lenovo Website, install the software.
During energy management installation if you see the window as below “Utility” must be selected for Fn hot-key application (Utility is a software package under EM)
4. After installation of Energy Management please perform step 2 to enable Webcam if it is disabled."
Try this and let us know how it works for you.
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Upgrade HDD speed in Thinkpad T530?

Hi all. I just ordered a Thinkpad T530 with the 1TB, 5400rpm hard drive. I'm now having second thoughts about that drive and wondering if I should upgrade it myself to a 7200rpm drive (it's too late to change my order).
I will be using this computer for Adobe CS6 programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, and After Effects. I will also probably be running Linux in VirtualBox. Will the 5400rpm hard drive make these programs run noticeably slower than a 7200rpm HDD? I also have an i7 processor and 8GB of DDR3 RAM.
If you think it's worth it to buy a 7200rpm drive (probably a smaller size), where do you suggest I buy it? I'm not sure how to tell if a hard drive sold online will be compatible with my T530. And can I get a Windows disk from Lenovo to install Windows on the new hard drive without having to purchase a whole new copy of Windows?
Thanks!
Gentoo Linux/Windows 7 Home Premium on Lenovo Thinkpad T530

'afternoon...
welcome to the community.
first, i recommend that once you receive the machine, use the "Create Recovery Media" function found by searching for same from the Start Orb (or in the Control Panel, i think). i like creating on DVDs. second, contact Service and request that they send you a factory recovery DVD set. functionally, both sets will do the same thing, namely, restore your machine to a factory-delivered state.
once you have these in hand, you can consider how you want to configure/reconfigure the storage systems. personally, i would look into getting a mSATA SSD for OS/swap/temp/apps and using either recovery set to image it, and then repurposing the terabyte drive as data/documents/video/photo/etc.
cheers.
edit: clarification and correction.
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Thinkpad T530 Constant Beeping From CD Drive

My Thinkpad T530 has been constantly beeping for a few days now.
My laptop is about a month old and didn't start beeping until recently.
It isn't beeping from the speakers, but from some internal source.
I can hear it best when I put my ear up to the CD drive.
I am not sure if it is coming from the CD drive itself but it is from that general area.
It's a quiet beep and it beeps about once a second.
Please help I really don't feel like sending my laptop in for such a minor issue.

so it is beeping without you even touching the keyboard?
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Experiencing three problems with Thinkpad T530 (Network, keyboard, and touch pad)

I bought thinkpad t530 2 years ago and gave it to my sister 4 monts age and recently she is experiencing few problems.
Before I mention any problems with it, I would like to mention that my sister hasn't updated software or driver for more than 60 days through lenovo solution center.
First, she cannot connect to a network (both wirelessly and internet cable).
The error says "There might be a problem with the driver for the Wireless Network Connection 2 adapter"
Second, the keyboard is not working.
The keyboard works fine when it was in BIOS mode and the keys associated with Fn keys work fine too, such as brightness contorl and backlit keyboard keys. However, it seems like the keyboard doesn't work in Windows 7. When she went into drivers manger to see what was the problem, it says, "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be computed or missing. (Code 39)"
Third, the touchpad and red pointer is not working.
Similar with the keyboard problem, the touchpad and red poting device is not working. In the device manger it says,"This device cannot start. (Code 10)."

Hi Rbtlr0215,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing multiple issues on your ThinkPad T530.
For keyboard issue, check if the issue persisting in ‘Safe mode’ option. Check with uninstalling the Keyboard adapter from device manager.
For internet issue, check if the issue persists in ‘Safe mode with network’ option, Check with uninstalling the Wifi drivers from Control panel – Program & feature options.
For Touchpad issue, check with uninstalling the UltraNav drivers from Control panel – Program & feature options and restart the system, let the Windows install the generic driver for your system.
After performing all the above steps run thinkvantage system update utility to check for latest driver for your system.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Hemanth Kumar
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IBM Thinkpad 600x OS boot issue

Hi All
i am new to the forum world and would really appreciate your advise on a issue i have with my IBM Thinkpad 600 X.
The issue been that i replaced the cmos battery and set the time and date but yet i am still having a issue loading windows XP. It will should the typical loading screen and then blue screen as it is loading the desktop.
My experence tells me it is a corrupt file and i have tried many times to load XP and Win 98 onto this machine but all attempts fail. If it does not show me the floppy load screen ( Who uses floppys theses days?) then it shows me the screen where it says i am missing the \windows\system32\nto ..... kernal.
Any advise would be a great help. I have now take the hard drive out to try and load it from another machine as a slave so i can get my information off but without the correct resources ie convertor it has proven to be a fail.
Thanks
Bruce

Check your HDD, do a surface scan,perhaps it is reaching its end.Did you get the error when you were trying to install windows?
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Thinkpad T530 Integrated Camera not working

Hi Folks,
I got my thinkpad T530 last week. I tested the skype after opening the box and it works. Then I took off the original 320G HDD and put my 830 SSD on it, reinstalled the win8 and blah blah blah.
Just last night when I tried to chat with my parents on skype i found out the the camera is dead. I tried by doing so:
1) according to others threads I uninstall most of the unnecessary drivers;
2) reinstall the camera driver;
3) deleted the ricoh media driver;
4) updated the BIOS;
5) tired to locate someone mentioned, the "privacy" problem. But the video/camera option is not even showing up by Fn+F6;
6) downloaded and installed the thirdparty AMCAM and it says no camera device can be found.
Please let me know if there is anything else i can do.
Thank you ,
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technically it's the same. I don't think there is a difference between t530 and e series.
Are you using win 8 or win7? for win8 it's a windows 8 app (after you pressing windows button..)

Lenovo ThinkPad T530 - N1B3RPB84 - add backlight keyboard

Hello,
I have bought new ThinkPad T530 (N1B3RPB84 - Core i5 3210M / 15,6 HD+ / 8192 RAM / 500 GB / Quadro NVS 5400M) but without keyboard with backlight. Is it possible to add this feature to my model (where can I buy keyboard)?
Lenovo ThinkPad T530

call up warranty support and ask for the backlight model of the keyboard, they should allow you to purchase them as an aftermarket self service part.
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Thinkpad T530 Hard Drive Cloning

Hello,
I'm looking for best practices, recommendations, lessons learned, etc. for copying the hard drive contents of one T530 to nine other identical T530s recently purchased for software engineering usage. A current snap shot of our old laptops shows that we have 214 programs loaded (majority of these programs are not pre-loaded from Lenova), so I'm looking for the most efficient and painless way of getting all the laptops loaded with an identical image. In the past we have used Norton Ghost but encountered issues with using legacy IBM Thinkpad laptops. Does the built-in Rescue and Recovery handle this process? Is a 3rd party product (such as Norton Ghost) recommended? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
T530 Laptop specs:
Processor
Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.60 GHz)
Operating system
Genuine Windows 7 Professional (64 bit)
Operating system language
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 - English
Windows XP Mode
Windows 7 XP Mode - English
Display type
15.6" HD (1366 x 768) LED Backlit AntiGlare Display, Mobile Broadband Ready
System graphics
NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics with Optimus Technology, 1GB DDR3 Memory
Total memory
4 GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (1 DIMM)
Keyboard
Keyboard Backlit - US English
Pointing device
UltraNav with Fingerprint Reader
Camera
720p HD Camera with Microphone
Hard drive
500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
Micro hard drive (mSATA)
16GB mSATA Solid State Cache Drive
Optical device
DVD Recordable
System expansion slots
Express Card Slot & 4-in-1 Card Reader
Battery
9 Cell Li-Ion TWL 70++
Power cord
135W AC Adapter - US (2pin)
Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapters
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN
Integrated mobile broadband
Mobile Broadband upgradable

+1 for Acronis. You _can_ also do this with Rescue and Recovery, but it's quite a bit slower in my experience.
Pull a full drive image onto bootable media, then restore to the other drives when they are installed in the target machines.
[edit] Or boot Acronis stand-alone on each machine and clone from the original drive in an external enclosure/adapter. The options re resizing and preservation of volume ID (probably not what you want) are somewhat different when cloning vs restoring.
Historically, there have been cloning problems with ThinkPads when the target drive wasn't actually installed when it was written. Something to do with the way BIOS addresses the drives. This may not be a problem with newer machines, but ti's generally recommended.
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Thinkpad L520 Power Management Issues

Hi all,
I have to report several issues with my Thinkpad (Core i5 2520M).
Both seem to be related to power management, that's why I decided to put them in one thread.
The problems occur on battery and with ac power connected, I have a 90 Watt power supply.
I am running Windows 7 x64 on my laptop, and I've applied all patches from Microsoft Update and Lenovo System Update.
All drivers are up to date. I am using the latest BIOS file (1.20).
The first problem is: My Thinkpad does not automatically increase CPU speed, it is always staying at 800 Mhz.
Even running Prime95 does not trigger some upscaling.
I experienced the same behaviour under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which I booted to check the problem.
In Windows, I set all power management options to full power (Windows Energy Control Panel and Lenovo Power Manager as well), still no change.
A complete BIOS reset (with removing the CMOS battery) did not change the situation.
The only workaround so far is, to run a software called "ThrottleStop", and to uncheck the box saying "BD PROCHOT". After doing so, the CPU is scaling up to 2.5 Ghz, but still does not enter Turbo mode.
The program has to be re-run after every boot to enable upscaling.
The second issue is:
I have bought a secondary hard drive bay, and the containing disk keeps spinning down after a few seconds of idle. (Yes, seconds!) The disk is working fine, does not have SMART errors and does not show this behaviour in another laptop and as an external USB drive.
I disabled all power savings options again (Window, Power Manager, and Disk AAPM), which could cause such behaviour, but still no luck. The first hard drive is an SSD, therefore I can't tell, if this drive is also affected by that behaviour.
UPDATE: After booting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I can verify that the behaviour is identical to Windows.
Since both of these problems seem to be related to some part of the power management, I am wondering if there is some bug in the BIOS itself or maybe some faulty system driver.
Any help on that would be appreciated, since normally working with the Thinkpad is rather annoying, considering the slow speed and the constant spin-up/down of the drive.
Best,
schalli

LennyL wrote:
Hi,
everybody suggests "hdparm -B 254 /dev/sdxxxx". This does NOT work. At all. The Load Cycle Count keeps going up. The 2nd HDD (in the CD/hdd caddy) powers down every few seconds, then up again.
I found this works: "hdparm -S 25 /dev/sdxxxxx" (change sdXXX in sda, sdb, or whatever relevant to your case). It sets spindown every 25*5 seconds. Second hdd is practically always on and LoadCycleCount remains constant.
I am also using "hdparam -S 0" to disable drive power management entirely.
LennyL wrote:
Please Please can you check something for me?
I have two hard drives (second is in aftermarket caddy), but it seems the second hd (the one in the caddy) is NOT seen by BIOS at boot. So I can only boot from the internal hdd. After booting, the second hdd is seen by Linux, SATA link reports 3Gb, no issues, all is fine.
Same here, the secondary hard drive is not seen in BIOS or in the BIOS boot menu.
After booting Windows/Linux, the drive works fine.
UPDATE: Even in good ol' DOS, the drive is seen. (I just booted DOS for a firmware update of an SSD drive, which was installed in the hard drive caddy.)
Where did you get the BIOS v1.32? The latest on the Lenovo Website and in System Update is 1.20..
Can you verify something for me too?
On my L520, Turbo Mode does not work at all, how about yours?
You can verify under Windows using hwinfo (http://www.hwinfo.com/ ).
For Linux, there's http://code.google.com/p/i7z/ , but you'll have to compile it.
Best regards,
schalli

ThinkPad T410 - Powers up, no display, WWAN light lit, lights are on but nobody's home...

Hi, had to sign up today as this has stumped me, my T410 has decided to stop working, prior to it deciding to not work I was doing some Windows Updates, it asked to reboot, laptop shut down, powered up, and that was that, stuck with a blank screen and no signs it's going any further. Took a look around the web and the closest I came to the symptoms (pretty much identical, but lacking my own observations) being discussed is here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T/T410-won-t-boot-blank-screen-and-keyboard-unresponsive-at-power/m-p/1838638 Only there was no solution to the issue aside from the person sending it off for repair, which I don't want to do considering I'm a laptop repair technician by trade (so no need for baby-steps, I can take full-on techy speak)!! I've reseated as much as I can (RAM, HDD, ODD, WiFi & WWAN cards, CPU, even the 56k Modem!!), pulled the power when on, disconnected the CMOS battery, done the power button 10-presses & hold for 30 seconds thing, all to no avail. The things it does do are the LEDs go through their own POST on powerup, the WWAN LED remains lit whether or not the card's fitted, the CPU warms up as though it's trying to do something and as such the heatsink fan spins up when up to temperature, and when I press the power button again for about a second (asI would to to switch it off when in Windows), the HDD LED lights up, then goes out, then the laptop beeps and shuts off. So, considering it can switch itself off, there's some life there, but obviously something's gone south with the BIOS, whether it has something to do with Windows Updates or not I don't know, but it is a very strong coincidence that it broke down right after installing them. Any ideas? Or am I going to be stuck using my T61 again 'til I can replace or repair my T410? Thanks in advance...

Anything? Would like to get my laptop back up and running as soon as possible, feeling somewhat left out of the windows 10 loop here (I have it reserved for that laptop!!).

New ThinkPad T530 with Windows 7 32-bit

I am likely to order a laptop soon, but there are no options for a 32-bit OS for the T530 (and I'm guessing for any of the ThinkPad laptops). I need 32-bit Windows 7 Pro for some hardware and software compatibility. Does anyone have experience downgrading the installed 64-bit to a 32-bit? I've read that you can do it with the same Windows key, but I'm wondering if there are any driver issues - any hardware in the laptop that isn't supported for 32-bit.
Thanks!

Hello and welcome,
Yes, you can clean install Win 7 and use the existing key - as long as it's the same version. 32/64 bit doesn't matter.
Take a look at the driver matrix for the T530. That will give you an indication of the 32-bit driver coverage. At a quick glance, it looks complete.
http://download.lenovo.com/express/ddfm.html
[edit] I'd recommend burning a recovery media set for the machine before downgrading. I'd recommend that in any case...
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ThinkPad T530 and latest Intel HD 4000 drivers (15.33.14.64.3412)

Hello All, I have the latest version of display drivers for the Intel HD 4000 chip, version (9.18.10.3359) from the official T530 driver page, however I see that Intel has updated to their latest version (15.33.14.64.3412). I am unable to install to the latest due to this error message: driver being installed is not validated for this computer. I'm assuming that Lenovo hasn't released a custom version of this driver package... is there a way around this?

Why intel? Are you sure its not an issue related to the firmware update issued by Apple a few months ago?

Thinkpad Yoga powerpoint 2013 issues

Hi,
I require help regarding this issue where my powerpoint 2013 became a bit weird (missing image and text) after opening some pptx file.
i tested the file in another computer its work normally using same powerpoint 2013.
Regards,
Umar

Hi Infowalrus,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per your query we understood that you are facing the issue with Microsoft Office 2013 on ThinkPad Yoga.
Please check with changing the Screen refresh rate to 60Hz by going to Display properties.
Check with updating the graphic driver.
Check with reinstalling Microsoft Office 2013 on your system.
If the issue still persists after performing above troubleshooting steps then we suggest you to contact Microsoft support for further assistance.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Hemanth Kumar
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ThinkPad T530 - 3 External monitors

Hi, I don't manage to get the third external screen working on my pc. I manage to have two external screen and my laptop screen, however, I want to have all three external screen to work simulatenusly, and the laptop closed in the docking station. Does anyone have a quck fix here please? It makes me mad, it says that T530 supports 3 external screens.... Best regads Pete

Currently running T530 - with Intel HD Graphics 4000 & nVidia NVS 5400M - with three external monitors and the laptop display. Should have a good tan by the end of winter!
All three external monitors are connected to the dock:
- Monoprice 28" UHD monitor 3840x2160. Currently 30 hz until I can get DisplayPort 1.2 cable. $400 on Black Friday sale. Couldn't resist.
- HP LP 3065 30" QXGA 2560x1600. Old device, connected via USB-powered DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter.
- HP LA 2405 24" 1920x1200 LED. Had to use VGA cable for this one. Image is a bit fuzzy, have to get higher-quality VGA cable
Turns out the Intel video can talk to only the laptop screen and the VGA ports. The Intel couldn't see the other displays, even after I disabled the nVidia video controller.
Also, the nVidia card can only run two monitors at a time, though it can see three (3) ports: the two DisplayPort/DVI connections on the dock, and Mini-DisplayPort on the laptop. No apparent performance difference between the laptop Mini-DP and DP on the dock.
I installed nVidia's latest video driver from their website, not sure whether it was necessary to success.
Hope this helps.

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