I had the issue of both trackpoint and Touchpad stops working from time to time in a T43 I've spilled water on a long time ago. Then for some reason, after me swapping the actual pad with another palm rest assembly coming from a dead T41p, that problem never happens again for both of them! So I gue...

It is easy really. Just enter the bios and disable Touchpad. Then just use the Trackpoint :) yeah im using that now getting used to it. its just weird sometimes when i enable touchpad it works sometimes it doesnt. when touchpad is enabled in bios and it happens not to workin windows it takes down t...

the laptop had water seep in a bit through the two buttons of the touchpad which made me replace the touchpad assembly since it was dead. i used the old palmrest and old finger print reader ribbon though (since it was pasted than screwed to the palmrest) the new touchpad worked for a while but has d...

The components that were used to create the T50 board are stock, off-the-shelf parts, like the i5 processor, the chipset. the CPU socket etc. Of course HOPE and his team needed to design and build a circuit board to put them all together, but that's peanuts compared to what's required to roll out y...

It's impossible unless you can design and manufacture your own processors. Between the Pentium M and the Core i series is a major difference in CPU design that cannot be surmounted. Heck, no one has even succeeded in upgrading a laptop from a Pentium M to a Core Duo. yea HOPE from 51nb.com designed...

Cigarguy wrote:Spend millions of $$ for a marginal increase in the computing experience. Cheaper to buy back all the T4x in the world and exchange with a new machine from Lenovo.

why millions? how did that figure come about? HOPE made a t50 motherboard not for millions im sure.

Not to mention that the CPU is intimately intertwined with the chipset. If you could somehow pack all the new CPU technology into the same socket/form factor, you would still not be able to talk to the old chipset through its ancient interfaces. And if you could, it would tremendously bottleneck th...

ajkula66 wrote:

irus wrote:easy breezy way to upgrade.

And then you wake up...

to the same old reality ?

no really there should be a processor instruction set upgrade made available at least.

if with the 479 socket there was a new 14nm CPU with latest instruction sets SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 etc. and integrated GPU wouldn't that be a great way to upgrade the laptop? i wonder if someone like HOPE from 51nb.com can make a custom 14nm CPU with 479 socket which fits existing t4x motherboards instead...

benchmarks for those interested in finding out how kingdian SSD 120gb performs. No thermal throttling and runs as good as 850PRO for the t42!

There is one post talking about Crucial mSATA running hot. Is that what you are talking about?

irus wrote:seems msata ssd run hot in general.. the acceptable operating temp is 0-70C and this is running at 50-55C, will let this pass.

ajkula66 wrote: I don't see how such temps would not introduce throttling...at all.

throttle at 50 Celsius?

seems msata ssd run hot in general.. the acceptable operating temp is 0-70C and this is running at 50-55C, will let this pass.

i just installed a kingdian msata ssd 120gb using a jmicron converter and it is working normally, benchmarks are right up there but it seems to be heating up considerably. what could be causing it to heat up abnormally?

installed samsung 850 PRO on the T42 here are the benchmarks! https://s31.postimg.org/n0e6xem17/850_PRO.jpg 4K rates look not bad at all: I only get ~17-19MB/s 4K Read out of a second hand PM830 (MZMPC128HBFU) in my T42 for instance. https://s32.postimg.org/vr5jthdjp/CDM512_MZMPC128_HBFU_000_L1.png...

installed samsung 850 PRO on the T42 here are the benchmarks!

https://s31.postimg.org/n0e6xem17/850_PRO.jpg

Acheron wrote:Two years ago !!! A few Linux upgrades later the old T42 is still going well. Lately it has been spending its time as a music server.
Hope everybody's T42 is still finding a productive purpose in its old age.

yes using it as my main non work laptop even now. no problems

after reading some more posts it seems like the adapter problems are mostly with T43 not with T42 which im interested in upgrading. I've ordered the parts waiting for them to come in and will report how it goes.

hi guys im thinking of doing this upgrade and will be buying Wave SSD msata 256gb from ebay from selled wavessd but i dont know which converter to buy the st663fd9 doesnt ship to india and the JM20330 based converters which are everywhere arent reported to be good. Any ideas which converter to go for?

okay thanks! serial number turned out to be accurate. machine type narrows it down though bu not enough.

while purchasing a laptop from EBAY i was on lenovo parts lookup site searching for LCD panel type for 2325-4Z1 it shows both TN and IPS panels. How can one REMOTELY determine whether the specific laptop has an IPS panel or not? is the serial number required?

thinkpadcollection wrote:Send the drive in to data recovery service. I won't tell why about platter thing.

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

i would send it but its in thousands. might as well try to have the head swapped or platter swapped.

You might as well kiss the data goodbye. Backup, backup, then backup the backup. its important data a dozen or so family pics. platter swap isnt so difficult. im just looking for the right match. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Travelstar-80GB-2-5-PATA-IDE-5400RPM-Laptop-Hard-drive-notebook-/261973...

Cigarguy wrote:Why bother swapping platter? Why not just swap old HDD with new?

i have data on it. not backed up.

my hard drives (HTS548080M9AT00) head wont work right so i will be doing some hdd surgery. im looking at buying this which is the right model http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Travelstar-80GB-2-5-PATA-IDE-5400RPM-Laptop-Hard-drive-notebook-/261973933079?hash=item3cfedcfc17:g:fzMAAOSwgQ9VrGDP will this...

thanks for the info

exTPfan wrote:CrystalDiskMark_3.0.2_1000MB
Seq//512K//4K//4KQ
R/W

T42 usual hard drive
43/29//20/26//0.3/0.6//1/1

T42p SSD in ultrabay, XP
85/73//83/71//15.2/23.3//19/31

Are you using this as the main boot drive via ultrabay?

im planning on upgrading the t42 with a SSD and would appreciate if someone could post crystaldisk ultrabay SSD benchmarks. i searched the forums but didnt find much except one benchmark where 4k r/w was about poor as the mechanical drive in the ultrabay caddy. just want to confirm whether it ultrab...

MrMaguire wrote: I'd be very interested to know which add-on this is, please.

easy 720p

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... t/?src=api

i use windows xp (pos ready registry hack for updates till 2019) and a firefox addon where a right click on youtube video opens the video in vlc as a network stream, it does 720p easy. 720p is enough for the sxga+ screen. overall works well for me!