I have an enterprise copy of vista with a valid product key. when I try to activate it, I get an error which says: DNS name not found. How can I fix this?

Can I install a second hard drive in inside my T40, say in the ultra bay?

I'd like to put a firewire card in mmy T40. Which one will work?

Can a T40 be powered off a 12 volt DC cigarette lighter Power Adapter for a car - like a GPS?

Can one stuff a T60 motherboard into a T40?

How does one get into the T40 BIOS? All I see is that stupid little blue button that really doesn't get you into anything on the system level. Is this the way they do it for laptops? You can't do or see anything useful. What about the Fn key? What's that all about?

Has anyone seen this - NEC Slim 16X DVD Burner AD-5540A, 8X DVD+RW, 6X DVD-RW, 4X DVD+/-R DL, 8X DVD-ROM. OEM ? They want $60 for it new at Ron's. Will it work in a T40?

I'd like to upgrade the DVD-ROM / CD-RW drive on my T40 to a DVD +-RW / CD-RW drive. Which one can I put in there?

Where does one take a system board for repair? I see a lot of bad boards on Ebay (T42's-T43's) that people are buying, so I guess they're being fixed - but by who?

Who are these companies?

I've noticed a lot of people selling system boards (T40 - T43) on Ebay which they tell you straight out are bad, don't work, and have nothing on them - no CPU, drives, network cards, ect. People are buying them for big money. Why would anyone do this? What value would a bad system board be to anyone?

There are two things I don't like about my T40, one is the 400FSB and the other is the the video chip. I can't change the 400FSB, but I was thinking of swapping out the motherboad for a T41p or T42p which has the FireGL V5200 video set. My question is will a T41p or T42p motherboard fit in a T40 mac...

I just bought a ThinkPad T40 off Ebay. It's a low-end machine (1.3 gig processor, 512 ram) but there is some room for upgrades. From what I've read the first thing to do is rip out the 4800 hd and replace it with an Hitachi Travelstar. The second is max out the memory to 2 gig, and third is to bump ...