Interesting. I had suspected that a 5.25 inch external drive w/a parallel port connector might work, although was wondering if the BIOS would read 5.25 inch discs. I had Googled around and found no reference to external 5.25 inch drives being accessed from 770 laptops, and IBM only made (?) 3.5" ext...

Roger on that. What I'd suspected. Was looking for an excuse to keep a nice 770 that I'm getting ready to sell.

Does anyone here know if it is possible to read 5-1/4 inch floppy discs using a 770 with an external 5-1/4 inch drive? I ask this because I've got a 770 which I am considering selling, that I would keep if only I had a tangible purpose for it. Periodically people at work bring me 5-1/4 inch floppies...

I've got a T430 lid with a minor crack (approx 1-1/2 inches in length) on one side. Lid appears to be ABS plastic. Any one have success with using ABS cement on such TP components? If not, the fallback adhesive will be epoxy based, or possibly black Dow 5200 marine adhesive. Thanks in advance.

Wow. Holy crow. Cowabunga. This is the OP. I've got a T430 with a cracked lid and was googling around for gluing options. Now here I am, back at a thread I started 10 years ago with the same problem. Curiously, I am getting ready to put the T20 that I glued with JBWeld in 2010, (ten years ago) on Eb...

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You can improve a bit on a 16:9 screen if you move the taskbar vertical, to the side.

Thank you. I think this is an underused solution to increase vertical space.

Cable connection on the LCD end had worked loose. All better now. Thanks for the suggestion.

Broke a hinge the other day on my T61. After replacing it, I fired the laptop up no problem, logged in, pressed the top of the screen slightly to adjust the angle of the laptop monitor and suddenly the whole screen went to a dim blue. Rebooted and rather than seeing the bios start-up, screen was dar...

Roger on the rigidity concerns. Might need to be a taller profile with added material to account for this. Final machine will likely not be confused w/a stock unit. This is an idea that has been bubbling up in my monkey brain for several years now. Other details like bios in a modern motherboard not...

Checking around on www.yeggi.com, www.makexyz.com, etc. I see a lot of 3d printing projects to create a variety of replacement parts as well as minor external mods for Thinkpads. I have been wondering about the possibility of 3d printing a base and midboard, (Figure 1) http://u.cubeupload.com/portsa...

Good luck to your friend on his search. I don't think I'm going back to the Dell Inspiron line that I used to use before Thinkpads either - the mod culture is so strong (esp in Asia) that I don't think I'll have to even try too hard to get myself a 51nb 8th gen computer. Hoping 51nb will revisit th...

Here is a link to a project on Indestructables.com where a Raspberry Pi Zero (RP) is wired into a TP420 ultrabay. The RP uses TP power and is accessed from the Thinkpad (running Win or Linux) via a VNC session. https://www.instructables.com/id/Re-purpose-Optical-Drive-With-RPi/ Too bad the TP periph...

FYI...article about the HP "Reserve Edition" and the future of leather on laptop/tablets. https://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/why-the-future-of-2-in-1-notebooks-is-customized-leather?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EWK_NL_EWKND_20190202_STR1L1&dni=462689879&rni=26099014 https://www.eweek.com/imagesvr_ez...

Aside from a full fledged vacuum chamber, most cabinetry shops, surfboard shops, etc that do a significant amount of laminate work have vacuum bag setups. The tabletop, (or surfboard) has the veneer glued onto it and then while the glue is uncured, the object is put into a large, sturdy plastic bag ...

Oh really! I just swapped an nVidia heat sink unit onto a board w/an Intel GPU with no complications. Used acetone to nicely clean the copper on the heat sink contact areas...did not have the nerve to use it on the microprocessors. Isopropyl worked there. Amazed at how dusty and dirty the innards of...

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

What is the method for undervolting these units? Throttlestop? RMclock? Recommended settings?

Hey all- I've got a T61 with an X9000 processor that I used to (partially) compile an Android ROM from source with this evening. I got about 25% of the way through the job, (2 hours) and noticed that the temperature was holding between 96 and 100 degrees C. I shut the process down shortly thereafter...

Of course she was using a Thinkpad!
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1819/290 ... 10e7_o.png

An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention.

One "trick" is to have a couple rare earth magnets around during disassembly to help keep screws organized and to aid in removal. I use one to pull out screws that have been completely unscrewed, but are still sitting in their recesses. Having a couple taped down for use as screw repositories will k...

Won't break my heart seeing TPs find a new manufacturer. It is fun to think about IBM picking up the brand again and watching TPs take over the ISS again. Maybe Intel will pick up the brand? If Intel is going into the drone market, why not laptops?

Good luck w/this. I spent way too much time trying to do this w/an X61 a few months ago. Finally kludged it by installing 32-bit WinXP then using the DOS exe.

Good luck w/your "next generation" T6x Thinkpad. I've been using one of these w/the standard 14.1" screen as my daily driver for about 10-yrs. Major problems have been one w/an Nvidia graphics chip a few years back and having the right side hinge break every year or two. Neither of these should be a...

Good luck w/this. It seems as if some of the assembly details might have potential for other mods on other models as well. There have been a number of threads on this forum about this model, but none with explicit tear-down details regarding the leather shell. Keep us posted w/what you find. Here's ...

Nevermind. This is a Windows driver issue. Ran showkey in Linux and was able to determine that bezel buttons were working.

Bezel buttons are not responsive on my recently acquired X61 tablet that is currently running Win10. Not getting responses from any of them from mystery unlabeled button to the left of the the screen rotate button all the way to the 4-way button when the tablet is folded in tablet configuration. Can...

Perfect. Thanks for the spot on answer and explanations. This is a new machine for me. Still trying to figure it out.

I am interested in booting my newly acquired X61 tablet from an SD card. I can see the card (I've put a Linux OS on it) when booting from the hard drive, But can't get the BIOS to boot from the card. I have not updated the BIOS: it is 1.20 (7SET34WW), 7/29/2008. Thoughts on this? Would Middleton BIO...

Were there ever 5-1/4" floppy drives made for the 770 ultrabay? Anyone ever hooked one up externally? Thanks.

Reverting to the previous kernel driver per section 1.4 of below link
https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/ ... Leap/42.3/
resolved the problem.
This is NOT a SSD issue, this is purely a driver problem.