Intel Cherryville 520 fits in 7mm slot. Although they do sell 7mm version of the drives, the only one I could find and order was the the 9mm. Remove the black spacer and replace with smaller screws and it fits fine.

I used screws from my Thinkpad T40 screw pack.

Swapped the Intel 3945ABG to Atheros ThinkPad a/b/g adapter. The Intel adapter runs cooler but the Atheros has much better reception and "feels" faster.

For those interested. the IBM part number is:
39T5578 OR 41a4070

The card was $15 plus shipping. Pretty cheap if you ask me.

MobileMeter, from top to bottom reads: Frequency: 1.66Ghz Temp: 57.0C Temp: 64.0C Charge Rate: 0.00w HDD #0: 35.0C ThinkWiki reports that reducing voltage can stop constant fan spinning. (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_fan_noise) As reported by Toms Hardware, my new 5k160 uses a whopping...

Hello all, I installed a new Hitachi 5k160 160gb 5400 rpm hard drive in place of the Lenovo supplied 80gb Fujitsu 5400rpm hard drive. Now the fan near the left corner of my X60T seems to always be running. What gives, any ideas? If I can't get this fixed I'll have to either put the old drive in or b...