Folks, sorry you misunderstood my problem. The amber battery "low battery" light always stays on but the battery is fully charged and charges when the battery gets low but the amber light never goes off

Thanks
burns

Hi folks, my battery needs charging light is always on now when powered and the battery is fully charged, any ideas

burns

Guys, I'm just putting it in standby when I am done using it and everything is fine. Not missing any sleep over this, thanks for all the responces

It says 1951-46U but I am not sure that I never changed the MB on this unit, I did a lot of tinkering a few years ago

Terminator, I just don't remember which graphics and how to check it, I put a SSD in it 4 years ago and haven't used it except for printing ebay labels. I thought Belarc would check that but do not see it

TPF, you got it right, running Xp, EXACTLY, HOT AS HELL

Terminator, the windows startup screen was on and it was very faint, I think it might have started insafe mode on first restart after cool down

Thanks but, you guys are missing my point. This laptop always runs cool but something strange happened when leaving it alone and closed ONCE. When I turn it on now it is fine. This over heating was the entire laptop, everything was HOT.

burns

Good afternoon folks, I have a dedicated T60 that I leave connected to my printer that I usually don't shut off. A few weeks ago I opened the lid and the entire laptop was very hot, the entire keyboard, back side, everywhere except LCD. I unplugged it and left and restarted without battery later and...

Hi there, I've noticed the T60 running hotter sometimes even shutting down if I forget to put the fan on speed 7 and been meaning to open and redo thermal compound and clean fan. Yesterday I unplugged the charger and notice the cpu drop about 15 degrees. It does not seem to overheat when not chargin...

Update: I opened the unit up and removed and cleaned the fan and cleaned the chip and applied new thermal paste and all seems good now ie. no more random shut downs

burns

T60 starting randomly shutting down so I installed a cpu temp app and saw cpu temps of about 80 deg C. Then installed tpfan control and temps have dropped to about 65 deg C, thinking maybe a clogged up fan or need new thermal paste on cpu interface, any thoughts?

Peter

RBS, both machines have the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 Graphics

burns

Automobus suggested by PM checking the bios and ec on each machine, well they are different, the 14" is at bios 3.21 and ec 3.04, the 15" is at bios 3.13 and ec 3.04, what do you think? get them up to date or atleast the 15" upto 3.21/3.04?

burns

Searching shows the latest Bios is 3.23 and EC 3.04

Bump, anyone have any thoughts on this?

Folks, as you can see above I built a SSD for my T42 14" using a 1.8" microSATA, Shapeways caddie and a Chinese adapter board. I was happy with the performance when in cranked out about 90 Mbs read and write speeds. I moved the drive over to my 15" T42 and the speeds are horrible, like 30 mbs ie sam...

Folks, the new board arrived and it was slightly different, it was to Rev1 of the board, anyway I assembled the same way into the shapeways caddy, plugged the 1.8" microSATA SSD in and inserted in HDD0. While the machine booted I hit F12 and the drive was visible in the boot list. Cloned the 1.8" mi...

Neil, everything first time around everything was gone after first attempt at clone, the 1.8" microSATA could no longer be seen, so game over, nothing else I could do. No way to see a 1.8" microSATA without an adapter as it won't mate with anything, ie not ide, not sata

burns

Well folks, I've been sent a replacement adapter board and I'm going to give it another try the same way tonight anybody got any suggested changes?

burns

dr-st, I think your are right, original drive back in HDD and all boots fine, no way to check 1.8" microSATA by itself, it does not fit in my SATA ultrabay drive.

burns

Edit: board vendor says to update the bios, is there any merit in that?

I built up a 1.8" microSATA setup with a Shapeways caddy, Chinese adapter board and Kingston 1.8" microSATA drive. Installed the 1.8" microSATA setup in HDD0 and booted off of original HDD mounted in the Ultrabay, all normal. Opened Easeus to clone and all drives were present, cloned the drive, all ...

Guess I should have made it a bit clearer that the !!! was actually part of the filename and not me shouting.:) jdrou, No problem, I found it. Sometimes things just are not as easy as they should be. Then when you open the read_me!!! it it says, " this is a Lenovo thinkpad bios", I was expecting so...

All, I found it in the downloads folder with lots of other stuff. Funny no where in the readme does it say it is the Middleton bios.

burns

jdrou's post was correct. If you are looking for fault, I'd look in the mirror first and stop there. You did not read the "READ_ME.TXT" within the compressed file. That was what he told you. He never said that the link itself did not point to Middleton's BIOS. Now I've got 2 of you guys all over me...

All, I've looked for awhile and have not found the Middleton bios, I though this was it as I followed a link from RBS http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/459591-t61-x61-sata-ii-1-5-gb-s-cap-willing-pay-solution-8.html#post6501443 A link to the Middleton bios would be appreciated, thanks burns Th...

All, I've looked for awhile and have not found the Middleton bios, I though this was it as I followed a link from RBS
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/ ... ost6501443

A link to the Middleton bios would be appreciated, thanks

burns

... did you take the time to read the "READ_ME!!!.txt" (inclued in the .RAR you downloaded) before asking here on the forum? Johan, I did, and it doesn't say anything about the bios file. There is a flash.bat, do you use that with either utility? ****************************************************...

I download the Middleton BIOS, Dual-IDA_SATA II_Whitelist_SLIC21_Thermal_Sensing_Error_ThinkPad_T61_T61p_BIOS_(2.29-1.08).rar and unpacked it and I see it has WinPhlash.EXE and WINUPTP.exe in the folder. Can either of these .exe's be used? and if so what is the name of the BIOS file you are flashing...

RealBlackStuff wrote:First install the regular Lenovo BIOS 2.29, then flash M's BIOS over it.

RBS, is this an always thing, Lenovo 2.29 then M's over the top for a T61?

burns

Folks, the seller replaced the drive with new and I performed a clean install and then aligned the partition. Using Crystal Mark to check the speeds it shows slight improvement but the good news is that the machine is very good. It's only used for email and surfing and is way more than acceptable. I...

AKJ, that I do, maybe the keyboard plug came loose although hard to imagine, tomorrow job, thanks

burns

update, keyboard replaced, all good