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Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
The palm rest on my X61s is beginning to develop some cracks.
Now I plan to replace it with a new one (can be had on ebay for just a few bucks) but most of them are with the fingerprint reader. A feature my X61s doesn't have. I wonder, does the motherboard support the connection for it? (So I can just plug the reader in and it will work..) or should I just get a reader-less palm rest because it won't work?
Now I plan to replace it with a new one (can be had on ebay for just a few bucks) but most of them are with the fingerprint reader. A feature my X61s doesn't have. I wonder, does the motherboard support the connection for it? (So I can just plug the reader in and it will work..) or should I just get a reader-less palm rest because it won't work?
Re: Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
Almost certain that your motherboard has the fingerprint connector, which means that you can use it if the palm rest has the hardware and if you install the software. Remove the keyboard and look for the connector. In the pictures below, the fingerprint connector is the black "rectangle" just below the yellow round CMOS battery:
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Re: Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
I thought all of them had the the FPR connector?
Owned Thinkpads: X300 X201T X200,T X61,s,T,T+ X60,s,T,T+ X41 X40 X31 T510 T500 T410 T400 T400s T61,p T60,p T43 T42 T41,p T40 W500 W700 - favorites in bold
To do list: X301 X220 X220T X201 X201s X200s X201i T420s T410s T420 T520 W510 W701 and future models
To do list: X301 X220 X220T X201 X201s X200s X201i T420s T410s T420 T520 W510 W701 and future models
Re: Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
Removed the keyboard, and that little rectangle is there south of the CMOS battery.
I guess I'll be ordering a new palmrest
And keyboard (US in stead of the UK that's now in there), and perhaps a bottom casing and top lid as well. My X61s is pretty banged up, the previous owner did not take care of it properly.
Okay, that's $100 in plastics but it will make it look almost like new. There are a few keymarks in the screen that I can't get rid of anymore.
I guess I'll be ordering a new palmrest
And keyboard (US in stead of the UK that's now in there), and perhaps a bottom casing and top lid as well. My X61s is pretty banged up, the previous owner did not take care of it properly.
Okay, that's $100 in plastics but it will make it look almost like new. There are a few keymarks in the screen that I can't get rid of anymore.
Re: Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
You should verify that your model was built with a fingerprint reader originally,
although I think newer models will accept it regardless.
I put FPRs into both my X60s laptops without a problem but my T42 wouldn't take it,
even though the connector was there. I had to change the motherboard.
Tim S
although I think newer models will accept it regardless.
I put FPRs into both my X60s laptops without a problem but my T42 wouldn't take it,
even though the connector was there. I had to change the motherboard.
Tim S
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Re: Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
The T42 has to have a Secure Chip installed to use the Fingerprint Reader. Not all did.
Bruce Guttman
Current stable: 770Z, 600X, T23, R40, R52, T43p, X41, R60, T60, T61, X61, X61T, X201T, T420; T400 (2768-EK9); W510 (4391-CTO), X220T (4296-2W5), T440 (20B6-00AUS), plus an Intellistation M 6219.
New Project: Making X220 work with WWAN.
Current stable: 770Z, 600X, T23, R40, R52, T43p, X41, R60, T60, T61, X61, X61T, X201T, T420; T400 (2768-EK9); W510 (4391-CTO), X220T (4296-2W5), T440 (20B6-00AUS), plus an Intellistation M 6219.
New Project: Making X220 work with WWAN.
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Re: Replacing palm rest, upgrading to fingerprint reader?
But all X60/X61 do, right?Bruce Guttman wrote:The T42 has to have a Secure Chip installed to use the Fingerprint Reader. Not all did.
Owned Thinkpads: X300 X201T X200,T X61,s,T,T+ X60,s,T,T+ X41 X40 X31 T510 T500 T410 T400 T400s T61,p T60,p T43 T42 T41,p T40 W500 W700 - favorites in bold
To do list: X301 X220 X220T X201 X201s X200s X201i T420s T410s T420 T520 W510 W701 and future models
To do list: X301 X220 X220T X201 X201s X200s X201i T420s T410s T420 T520 W510 W701 and future models
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