How did I fix dead Lenovo Laptop

I was happy with my Lenovo T series laptop which is working perfect with no flaws since 2003. LOL! Even I forgot the model name. That old is the laptop about which I gonna talk about. With arduous service, the laptop died 2 weeks ago. The death was without any symptoms. A sudden death! Nothing but a black screen gazed at me. So thought of buying a new laptop. Still, to try my luck, I browsed few forum regarding my issue (though I didn't post my question or problem). I found a crazy bit of information which was weird at first. But works actually.

The info was how to reset your apparently dead Lenovo laptop. The information was quite simple yet effective:

1. Unplug your AC input cable and battery from the laptop
2. Then press power button 10 times each with 1 second intervals. Then press and hold the power button for 30 seconds.
3. Insert your battery and boot your laptop as usual. It will work!
4. Remember, do not plug in your AC adaptor cable before booting the laptop. If you do and your laptop dies, repeat from step no. 1.

As stated above, the steps seems weird. But to my surprise it did work! For those who use Lenovo laptops must remember these steps if you find your laptop not responding to the boot request.

And for your information, I forgot the source of the website forum. I just desperately tried these steps. It worked. So writing about it as it may help others. Once I get to know the real source, I will post them. If you know, let me know! If your laptop didn't get fixed by following the aforesaid steps, kindly leave a comment about your problem.

How to extent Wifi coverage with second router?

With those who use wooden construction material can move on with this blog post. But for those who still complain about the black spot or patchy WiFi connection inside the house, You are in right place. I am not going to present with some cut and paste article from another website. All I am going to present is my personal experience of setting up WiFi connection and extending it to increase the coverage area. Technically, to fill black spots where you won't find signal with your existing Wifi router.

To begin with you need basic things. Before getting started, have the following ready:

1. Two WiFi routers

2. Lengthy CAT 6 cable

3. PC/Laptop to connect and configure routers

4. Some patience and time. Most of you reading this article may try it for first time. So if you do fail in your first attempt, congrats! Be proud that you started learning something new!

Alright! Now let's get started with our setup.

1. First of all, decide upon which router will be your primary. It should the router which gets internet directly either through a modem or wired connection. Fix this modem as your primary router so that you can extend connection from it to the slave or secondary router.

2. Note down following configuration information from your primary router. If you are unaware of how to know those information. Open your web browser and type in the IP address of the router. In most case, it would be 192.168.1.1, if your are using D-Link router, try 192.168.0.1. For those who find this difficult may refer the user manual of the respective router. And for configuration information, following details of from the primary router may be noted:

• wireless mode
• channel at which primary router works
• security settings like WPA, WPA2, WEP
• Passphrase of your primary router
• DHCP addresses of primary router

3. That's it for the info you need from primary router. Now reset your secondary router and connect it your PC/laptop. Make the following changes to make it slave of your primary router:

• Click the LAN settings page and edit the IP address of the router to be one of the Static IP address under primary router. For example, if your router provides IP address in the range of 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.49, fix the IP address of the secondary router within this range. As our case is for home connection, I would highly recommend using last IP address which would kept idle! So in this case, set the IP address of the secondary router to 192.168.0.49. Hit save and let the router reboot.
• Now, enter the new IP address of the secondary router and select 'OPERATION MODE'. Set operation mode to 'bridge'. Then hit save and wait until router reboots with new configuration.
• Again login to the configuration page of the secondary router. Now, change the basic wireless settings to match exactly with your primary router. ONLY EXCEPTION IS ASSIGN DIFFERENT SSID TO YOUR SECONDARY ROUTER. Apart from that, change all the values like channel, security, wireless mode and it must exactly match your primary router. Now hit save and let the router reboot.

By now, you have made your secondary router work alongside primary router which would extend your WiFi connection fill black spots in your home. To connect two routers, you could prefer long Ethernet CAT 6 cable. To establish connection, plug one end of the Ethernet cable in any one of the LAN port in your primary router and plug the other end in any LAN port of your secondary router.  Place the secondary router well away from primary router to extend the WiFi coverage. That's it. It must work now.

For this experiment, I had the following equipments:

1. D-Link 816 wireless modem/router.
2. ZyXel wireless router (I had a spare router in home)
3. Cat 6/ Ethernet cable (any of them would work but make sure it is of good quality)
4. Ofcourse, an internet connection in working condition.

Nonetheless, power source is far more important. Do not forget to plug in your AC cable in your routers.