I have a fingerprint sensor on T60. I found Thinkvantage password manager a handy feature, since I can just swipe my finger instead of typing passwords into websites. Unfortunately, the latest Vista auto-update nuked it: now it asks me whether I want to store a password every time (i.e. does not rem...

CPU should work no problem at all. I remember seeing in another thread that when they put Dothan in a T40 motherboard 91P... part number I think, it run at like 600MHz always, until they updated BIOS and EC. But I wonder if that is the extent of incompatibility between Banias and 400Mhz FSB Dothan ...

I had the same symptopms, no configuration change, it just suddenly stopped buring CDs. I put this CD_RW drive into another thinkpad, and it worked (with the same blank CD). Then, USB ports failed. And then, the screen started to freeze, so eventually I diagnozed that the soldering of the GPU chip f...

Apparently not all T42s come with Dothan CPU. Mine (bought in Sept 94) came with SL6F9, which according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_M_microprocessors is a Banias processor. My motherboard is 93P4156. Recently, the soldering of ATI 7500 GPU chip failed on the motherboard (ho...