Hello, I'm just refurbishing some Helix 2nd, initially to use my spares. After achieving proper installation of Windows 11, I have started to work on a pair of these. The Helix 2nd 20ch 20cg (M-5<Y71/8GB-Variante) is a still fine machine and if You do not bother to install a heavy workload of softw...

Hello all: The system does tell anything, may be, just that its bios battery ist working... If the system does not enter bios... the battery in the system, possibly the one in the ultrabook pro keyboard is dead, too. After replacing bios-battery, system-battery and keyboard battery, the systems cam...

Hello, I once again have restarted a trial... restoring Helix II Systems that have obviously not(!) been used for a long time ... So I do have to accept, that waking up is hard to do... : :wink: ... The system does react ... by 3 quick red "beeps" of its diode/Led on its back. Looking into Lenovos H...

Thanks RealBlackStuff,

I'll try and let You know... Allthough I'm not trained in fine mechanics, not trained in mechanics at all .

Happy trail, stay safe

Hello, I just try to have my last Helix II rebuilt and I find myself in small troubles, as I need some "00JT561 Lenovo-Duke-1 USB Bracket" to secure the use of a USB-Port. It obviously got lost, I found one from a dealer in the US (there in store!), but the formal reply was "We do not send to German...

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but that I did accept as possible.

What I realy want to know is, is it possible to reapply the latest Bios and keep the whitelist off??

Tia

Hello Heilong, I just noticed, there could be a way to upgrade the WLAN/Bluetooth on my TP ... I seems a little more complicated than those modds to TP A31Ps I did some 20 years ago... but possible. Did I understand You correctly: (1) A downgrade of the Bios (today: G5ETB6WW 2.76) comes first, is ne...

Hello Bill, happy trails to You, stay safe and sound.... AST has gone... It was bought by... Samsung, late "last century", but even before had troubles to keep up with the pace of the industries... rapid changes... (They started on being better (faster) than IBM, but did not have the resources of IB...

Well, A Year ago You would have made me happy, probably ... I have been looking for years on ebay and other places ... no show. I never managed to find a working one with a working (not fading, not discoulouring) 11,8" (!) TFT-display, as I had. Some month ago I have done away all parts I had, even ...

Hello, just run into an error Problem: (1) used an (unused/older/probably functional) A31P Systemboard to rebuild a A31P. (2) was asked a security chip by the system: 4x4beeps. (3) added a security chip (the right one for this Board (26P8430) (4) had to wait, but set date and time (5) had to wait b...

Hello, one of those 4 drives I advertised earlier had to be used to refurbish a IBM Travelstar 8E, done successfully, one entered a USB-1-Case that had enough headspace to cover a DYLA 28100. done successfully. It this one I offer now: Price remains the same: 10 US$ plus shipping & handling Happy t...

Hello, After dismantling a Display in search for SVGA+ I was left with an XGA Display (plus correct inverter) that is in very good shape (proper white, no coloring, no pinkish look) but alass XGA nothing else. I will make a parcel with a display-backcover from an A31 in order to protect it whil e b...

Hello, I 'm under pressure ... from the other part of my family :wink: to reduce my still unfinished projects... As I have managed to rebuild one for myself and one to give away / to sale, I still have another A31P waiting for reassembling and rebuilding: It is a Machine that stopped working only s...

Hello, I just want to let You know, may be someone is interested in and still uses PCMCIA slots on his Thinkpads in order to expand the access to datadrives ... ... I should like to sell my external PCMCIA-Harddisk from IBM (Travelstar 8E 8GB). It is on offer on "fleebay" ( fleebay Germany No.: 203...

I have to come to some final decision on quite some parts, some leftovers from earlier "occupation" with Thinkpads... So I just want to ask if anyone may want to make use of the following parts. Price: negotiable, but s I have to put a pricetag on them,I'll take 10 US-Cents/card plus shipping/handli...

Thanks RealBlackStuff,

I did so, now...

Shouldn't have forgotten...

Happy trails to You, to all, Stay safe , don't let Your protection down, will You?!

Hello, just to let You know: An IBM Thinkpad A31P ist up on "fleebay": Frankenpad (IBM Thinkpad A31P) mit 2,6Ghz CPU, 2GB Memory und 236GB SSD Fleebay germany No: 203316238159 T hat is a special one,we used those TP for about 13 Years as our main machines, our daugthers used some (2,5ghz ones) for ...

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thanks for the info, but my Kaspersky complains heavily:

• Mailgne website "google-gateway.com"

• "HEUR:Trojan-PSW.Script.Generic", objectname: "moment.js.pagespeed.jm.gszWgED7kn.js"

That is not comfortable...

Hello,

impactcomuters seems out of business... website not found...

Stay safe

Thanks Ajakula66,

Good to hear from You, "well and safe" (?!),
in a new United States going to overcome quite some disturbing events....

Thanks for Your advice, I shall try it.... and let You know...


PLease take care and stay safe, all of You in this community !

Happy trails

Hello, I am looking for an as new/new UXGA LCD for an Thinkpad A31P (15"), that is going to be refurbished. Any hint or/and advice where to find this LCD still today is welcome. I thought I found one on ebay, but it is not clear whether it is an IPS-IAUX14S or some "compatible" display. And the pric...

Hello, anyone able to let me know, wheter an UXGA Display 15"/A21P could be mounted in an A31p? Judgeing by the looks of the dispolays backside it might be possible: 30pin, probably same size and same place of contacts. But I do not know. Does a 15" TFT LCD Display UXGA 1600x1200 IBM Thinkpad A20p A...

Hello, after having disposed of the remanents of my old dead AST Ascentia (910/950n), I still have 2 such Travelstar drives (late 90ies) without casing, at hand. They survived ... All Tested in 10-2020. They are protected by antistatic material and would be packed for shipping with additional soft/s...

thanks RealBlackStuff!!

Stay safe and well in these times of Covid and other disturbances...

Sioncerely

Hello all,

I think I happen to ask the same question again: Is ther a tool, I could use to restore a serialnumber /create a machine ID after systemboard change as
the "old" one started producing error-messages. Bios. is latest

Thanks to all of You

Kfzhu1229 wrote: Well I really think you should stop abusing that old thing. I think there are many ppl wanting such a machine for collection and you can certainly use much newer and cheaper equipment for that kind of purpose. Well ; I would be glad, if there were someone, that does still want to us...

Hello ajkula66, It is good to see & read Your well ?! ... But I cannot / do not share Your view of Europe and the refugies-theme... I happend to be part of amnesty international in the 70ties and eighties and to experience the consequences of terror, the consequences of Milton Freedmans policy recom...

Hello Guys, over here and over the ocean, lets stay with the facts... China is no democracy, yes, and it is a country led by an authoritarian, may well be totalitarian party, no western style. But it was a truely fast growing & learning society & economy. It has learned its style of economy from ......

And have a look at ebay... See: https://www.ebay.de/itm/TP-LINK-TL-WN961N-300MBPS-MINI-PCI-WIRELESS-N-ADAPTER/263679359841?hash=item3d6483bb61:g:W58AAOSw61Fbs8GD May be, judging by those Photos, I do have two very similar to these, but with a diffferent code on the atheros chip and without labeling,...