FYI Found this on shopgoodwill.com this morning.



3 IBM Thinkpad T40/R50 Series Ion Batteries (NIB) (5392233)

This laptop was a donation with no history. It does not boot up. We purchased an AC adapter as the battery was probably questionable. The battery/power light does come on when the power button is pushed. Orange at first, then green. It has one 256 module of memory in it and a probably dead hard driv...

I've decided to pass on this one. However the mgr told me they are also listed on their website up the 22nd; shopgoodwill.com Grandville MI store in case some one is interested in them.

At a local resale shop: #5247061
8 IBM ThinkPad Multiple Battery Charger
These appear to be new. As I don't have any working thinkpad yet, are they worth buying for the future? What is a good price for consideration?

I read that the T22 contained the S3 Savage IX MV 86C294. This is a driver I need but can not access online. If your T22 does have this driver, would you share it with me?

Thanks you. Just because someone mentioned that removing the ethernet and modem cards brought their laptop back to life, just had to try it. I think I'm just going to set this laptop aside for sale as parts for someone with more experience. It looks like the laptop was probably taken apart to some d...

Thank You Apparently the battery is charged, and the power on works also without it.

This may seem like a too simple question but how do I know if the AC adapter is capable of powering a laptop. The green light for battery is on when I attempt to boot up with the AC adapter attached. When the laptop did power up in the beginning, the indicator light for what I think is the battery, ...

I had downloaded the maintenance manual. It doesn't take into account inexperience with laptops. :? Do I need to remove the modem card in order to remove the CMOS battery? The illustration just shows it removed with a black clip? that was around it. I don't see anywhere to release that black clip an...

As the donated A31 is mostly likely not rfixable with our economic restraints, it might be a project laptop. Is there a tutorial of website for taking one of these apart. I want to treat it as if it were fixable even though that isn't too likely.

Your answer wasn't unexpected. It's rare for someone to donate a fully useful desktop or laptop. The indicator light is always green. Would this indicate the battery would be of some use to someone? Are there parts that are easily removed for sale? I noticed the CMOS battery appears to be "wired in"...

Apologies for the long post: I was referred to this site and was more than happy to find it. Hopefully, the information we need to make choices is here. None of our volunteers are experts in computers, and no real techs are able to offer their services. Desktops and laptops are refurbed, given a new...