Installed it on my T43pSF, quite pleased so far.

Thanks, RBS...

zod wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:31 pm

Somebody swapped the display in the past for sure. It should be Flexview.

My thoughts exactly. R60 was offered with a non-IPS 15" SXGA+ panel, which would have been much cheaper to swap in during the heyday of that generation.

ibm thinkpadfan wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:37 am

I tried it without the ram and nothing happened.

Not a good sign, I'm sorry to say. Motherboard gone south, most likely.

Given the age of the systems I'd just part them out or recycle them, but it's your call.

Welcome to the forum! I got 2 r40 thinkpads recently and neither of them power on. I tried the a.c. and battery and nothing happened. I tried the power button trick and nothing happened. The least I got from one is the battery charging and one indicator flashing 4 times to never be seen again. I als...

GomJabbar wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:48 pm

Seems to be working now though.

Too bad. I had such high hopes...

I vaguely remember something about taping pins (19?20?) but that could've been back in the mini PCI days.

My T61p with Middleton's BIOS doesn't light the LED in Windows with AR9380 but most certainly does in Linux. I was never bothered by that fact enough to even contemplate doing anything about it.

Zach123 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:45 pm

Then I looked it up and it was down since 9:20. I've never seen YouTube down for this long.

Good. Hopefully there's a coup going on at the Google headquarters...

nightninja96 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:24 pm

The T7100 is currently working, that is why I'm confused, the T7700 won't work, but the T7100 will. I am using 3.15 stock Bios...

Then I stand corrected. Learn something new every day on this forum...

The T7700 and the other early Merom-derived processors will not work, unless you were to add Merom's microcodes manually into the R500's BIOS. I believe the R500 is capable of using any 667MT/s, 800MT/s, and 1066MT/s late Merom processor and any Penryn processor available. This is what I can rememb...

wujstefan wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:13 am

EDIT: other than that: T530 battery is backwars-compatible with no mod needed I presume?

Correct.

Thanks for input but that was mi first choice, but sadly in HMM when "no power" issue only answer is to replace system board. I validate that charger is working. I will consider buying a R60 with for example broken screen, but i can see there are lot of different boards built in graphics, external,...

MikalE wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:26 pm

That's why they make the big bucks!

Well, I don't know...in 12 years that I've been living here in NEPA I haven't hit a big buck yet, just two regular deer...

Welcome to the forum! I apologize and don't mean to hijack this thread. Very much a noob when it comes to the T61. I plan to upgrade from T7100 -> T9300. Already flashed Middleton and wanted to know about the error is suppresses - thermal sensors. Is this safe to do? Will a merom board still keep th...

nightninja96 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 14, 2018 9:39 am

Hello, I was walk dieting what cpus are compatible with the thinkpad r500?

Any 1066 Mhz Penryn such as T9400/9600, P8500/8700 etc.

Also, will the t7700 work with it?

No.

I have a hard time believing a T601 would even be okay for simple and basic home user tasks these days such as Netflix. Again, I can't do 720p YouTube without frame skip on a T601. I'm pretty sure 1080p YouTube is a requirement for any *device* to be called modern - as any $100 Chinese tablets and ...

Thinkpad4by3 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:34 am

I'll be under a big rock if anyone need me.

Given the direction that the world seems to be heading, you may very well find me under the neighbouring one...

@MikalE : If you were any closer, I'd happily take that Tascam 38 off of your "unused items list"... :) Recording gear aside, I'm still in absolute amazement over that cockpit that you had recreated. Can't wrap my head around the fact that it was even possible to complete such a task. My hat's off ...

Ahem...that very island of Lesbos has its name in the root of the word "lesbian"...so I guess something has changed for reasons unknown.

Linguistics aside, the story just shows - once and again - that the Western civilization is hellbent on committing suicide....

Some people are really fond of the look of the older wood grained glowing tube equipment. I personally prefer cold steel with discreet transistors driving transformers. Most 'audio people' thought it was wrong for me to take the wood sides off my console. I much prefer the hard industrial look over...

I'm not sure either TBH. Realistically, just about anything that will work on 2000/XP will work fine on Win10. No it will not. There's a boatload of proprietary software where the compatibility was broken either in W8.x or W10. I'm curious if the A31 even shipped with Win9x? I don't believe so. I e...

Given that certain governments shadow-banned the use of ThinkPads years ago, I don't believe that any systems that are still in daily use should be regarded as safe...to refresh everyone's memory... https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/30/4570780/lenovo-reportedly-banned-by-mi6-cia-over-chinese-hacking-f...

Battery is completely dead, so I've made dummy out of it to cover the hole, it will be connected to ac adapter all the time. I've never owned a W70* of any kind, so congrats to you first and foremost... :thumbs-UP: Some ThinkPads won't run at full speed unless a working battery is present. You may ...

Have you tested that X9100 in another system ?

On a different note, I'd pass on anything faster/hotter than T9600 in these machines with the stock cooling.

portsample wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:15 pm

Oh really! I just swapped an nVidia heat sink unit onto a board w/an Intel GPU with no complications.

So you did exactly what I stated above...

I've never used acetone, though...can't say that the thought even occurred to me.

portsample wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:18 pm

Are there different models of fan/heat sink units depending on whether the laptop has an Intel or Nvidia GPU? Unit is 14.1" standard. TIA

Yes.

The one for nVidia units will work fine with an Intel board, but not the other way around.

Screamer wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:57 pm

Seems to be mostly IBM or Lenovo here, I thought there were more in variety for collectibles? Either way, here is my list (one choice, not all of them):

I've got to give it to you, there are machines on that list that I've never heard of, let alone anything else...

No fuss no muss no bragging and BOOM here comes my friend dr_st with a very well thought out collection...well-played, sir.

I'd be envious if I were younger. Seriously.

Enjoy...

Isn't it a firmware issue only? For instance the EM7345 WWAN in ThinkPad 8 tablet reads the carrier from SIM card upon boot and loads corresponding carrier-specific (if any) firmware. This is US specific issue I believe because there were separate firmware files for three US carriers and generic on...

I've got about three things to say here: a) I've moved to Linux a couple of weeks ago and am likely staying there for good. b) I did boot quickly to W7 a couple of nights ago to run the program that doesn't run under *nix for about 5 minutes. Never went online, nor did I feel the urge to. c) For me ...

A31p.

Not that this response coming from silly old me should surprise anyone...