So, I have almost forgotten it, but it seems to be fixed now :) First, I tried to boot Ubuntu from CD. This did not work, the CD was not recognized to boot from. I dont have a floppy drive for this ThinkPad (only for a 770). Then, I tried the Harddisk from the T23 in my old 770 to see if it still wo...

Thank you, I will try your tips when I get the device in my hands :) Well, my Teacher said that he replaced the hard disk and it did not still work tough and he thinks the controller brake the harddisk. But I still have a 4-Gig-Harddrive which I might use for test (it is not too bad when it breaks :...

Hello, it's me again. Well, I was the guy with the 3 old Thinkpad 770s. Now I have a HP Notebook, which is quite OK. But I talked to my old English teacher today and he asked me - because he remembered my old IBMs - if I am good in repairing Notebooks. I said "maybe, I have to see what I can do". He...

Thanks. But now it is broken I got other tps - will post pics soon.

Thank you for the hint, I will do so if it breaks again. But, unfortunatly, the thinkpad seems to be broken anyway. Suddently, I was not able to turn it on any more - the speaker symbol in the little LCD is visible and blinks and the fan turns on, but nothing happens :( Well, I mentioned that in a G...

This sounds interesting, but at the moment I wont be able to afford even a relatively cheap Thinkpad from the US.
But if you will come to Germany again, maybe next year..

Ah, I see. Then having less or exactly 64 MB RAM might make sense with Windows NT or something like that, where 64 MB is more than enough, but not with more memory-intensive operating systems.
I did not think about this, but yeah, this makes sense.

Thanks!

Thanks. Well, I only have an USB-floppy - maybe: I also have an old Siemens-Nixdorf-Laptop (I got it for free and the screen broke), and the (removable) floppydrive can be put into some kind of adaptor to use it on the parallel port while the CD-ROM-drive is in the bay. I will try if the Thinkpad wi...

I dont know if it was a good deal, but I think it was. The Company where my Dad works bought new laptops and sold the old ones. I think for 15 Euro each. ThinkPad 770, this is how I got my one. He bought 2 or 3 and got a third - broken one - from the dumpster. Maybe useful for parts. And I was mad a...

I already thought about buying such stuff in the USA.. but I dont think I will do it in near future.

A crappy Siemens MC60 with an even more crappy camera. And its kinda scratched. I cannot find my card reader so pictures will come later.

Not a percent as cool as an Model M keyboard.

I use my desktop (Athlon 900) and - in the university or when lying in bed - my thinkpad (770, 233 mhz). I also have an old Siemens-Nixdorf-Notebook (P100) with broken screen which I use to play around with Win NT 3.51 & stuff, an old Powerbook G3 with broken display hinge & broken zipdrive (where I...

It depends on what I can afford as I am a rather poor student
I *wish* to buy a Thinkpad, of course. But if i.e. somebody I know buys a new notebook and offers me his old, let's say, Toshiba quite cheap I'll buy it.

So this is the power connector.
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It seems the pin inside was never soldered to the board itself, but only pressed agains the metal connector. So now it has a loose contact and I am going to solder it.

So, me again. Well, I have a ThinkPad 770. When I got it it was equipped with 64 megs of RAM and it came with xp installed (!). I even disassembled an old PowerBook and took the RAM from it to upgrade the RAM in the ThinkPad. Recently I found some old issues of a German computer magazine ( c't , imh...

Hello @all and sorry again for my bad nglish (as I am german). Well, while cleaning up my room I found some old issues of "c't" - a German computer magazine (the best imho). Well, in one of them there was an article about 'alternative operating systems on Laptops' and back in 1998 it seems OS/2 was ...

Thanks. Well, the one I have works - or better worked. The Connector for the AC/DC-Adaptor broke (the little pin inside broke) and I have to re-solder it. When opening the thinkpad a smd-part fell out (It was inside since I got it - I heard it when I shaked the thinkpad) but it seems it was not necc...

I also have a 770 and just took apart the CD-ROM to see if I might replace it with a CD-Burner. But it seems the connector is soldered on it, too. http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk211/jerichsk/?action=view¤t=Simg2391.jpg (76 kb) And it does not seem that there is an adaptor inside the driv...

So, hello folks! First at all sorry if my english is quite bad as I am from Germany. (I am not sure.. maybe I had an account here once. I remember reading a lot in this board but I dont know if I ever registered earlier ;) ) I love thinkpads but as a student I cannot afford a new one ;) Well, the Co...