Hi I'm currently using my T400 (8GB memory, 128GB SSD, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD) use mainly kodi (playing 1080p videos) and emulation (would like to try dolphin emulator). Is it advisable to get this dock 2503, add in a PCI-E graphic card (have a old HD5850 running on my desktop else...

i just changed my os to lubuntu and playing youtube, watching 1080p video are quite smooth compared to my previous win7.

this is all done on my 80gb ide hdd, still thinking of getting a msata ssd with a msata to ide adapter.

got a replacement ac adapter and was working fine for about 1 month and suddenly my t43 does not charge anymore and unable to power up my t43 without the battery, also felt there's electric shock around the corner of the lcd screen is this the problem cause by my new adapter or there are some proble...

Easy Wind wrote:are you located in the CONUS? If so, I have an A/C adapter for sale. Legit Thinkpad/OEM part

I'm not in the states and already got an adapter. Thanks for your offer.

Haha I know, already looking for one. Just interested to know if anyone here have done it before.

I think the spare ac cable somehow killed the adapter coz after I switched my main adapter to the spare ac cable, it does not work anymore and this is probably the case for my spare adapter as well.

Now I'll have to do this. Anyone try it before?

OMG now my main ac adapter is also dead! I tried to switch the ac cable between the main and spare ac adapter with the ac cable plug still connected to the electrical extension.

Does this cause the adapters to die?

I've a spare original t43 AC adapter laying around, I want to use it again but does not power up/charge the battery when plugged it in my t43. Tried is with the main adapter and my T43 is able to power up/charge the battery. I think it's dead but what are the chances of that? The AC adapter build qu...

I'm using this ake expresscard 54mm 2 x esata card on my t43 and it works great! Plug and play on Win7, maybe going to try out Win8 and hope it'll work.

The only minor issue I've is the connectors does not provide any locking thus the esata cables can be easily removed thus disconnecting the hdd.

No hdmi output, usb3.0 ports, expresscard 54 slot... will give it a miss. :( That's good as I doubt very few, if any, of us will get our hands on this MB. Reading lazycat's thread above there's only 58ish machines floating around. It's not like we can order a Gigabyte MB from Newegg install in our ...

No hdmi output, usb3.0 ports, expresscard 54 slot... will give it a miss.

This is my transfer speed on my t43 using a esata express card over a gigabit lan.

http://i.imgur.com/PV1IuUa.png

My bluetooth headphone is able to pair successfully using Toshiba bluetooth stack on my PC running Win7 but not on T43 running Win7 using IBM bluetooth stack.

Is it possible to install the Toshiba stack on my T43?

I'm using Win7 after finding out WinXP does not support more than 2TB HDD capacity. It's work great, with all the hardware drivers!

Maybe when I've time will try out Win 8.1.

Managed to found a workaround for this!

My T43 connected to my 32" LCD TV via VGA port running XBMC is able to play all 720p videos smoothly (lag on 1080p)!

Now my T43 is a NAS + media player! Next step is find a remote control!

Thanks for all the replies!

Are there any modded bios that can fix this problem where someone else had resolved this issue using another notebook found here.

Found out that then I unchecked the "Allow this device to wake the computer" found in the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet properties, the CPU usage drop immediately and checking it again make the it went up to 100%. Anyone know a fix to this? Also found out someone else is having this problem he...

Hi all, I recently installed XBMC on my T43p machine running on Win7 and uses the Wake On Lan function to start-up as a media player. What I noticed is every time when I start up my T43p machine using Wake On Lan function, the machine cpu usage will always be 100%. I can't find any process with that...

Does it have hdmi output?

Hi, I'm currently using my trusty T43 with 2GB of memory running on Win7 OS as a NAS server. It's connected to 2 x 2TB HDDs via a ExpressCard/54 eSATA card. File transfer on my giga network LAN is good. I'm thinking of installing a Android OS and getting a docking station and connect it thru a DVI-t...

The 54mm express card does not mention ESATAp or Power eSATA. The cable is for laptops with a ESATAp port. I wonder if a hard drive connected with the express card would be bootable. :) Hi malch, managed to set up using the express card on my T43 with 2 x 2TB HDDs connected via the esata cables as ...

Hi guys,

I've 2 x 3.5" 2TB hdd lying around and I want to connect it to my T43 using this and this and run it 24x7 as network file server.

Anyone have any idea will it work?

Anyone have a similar problem?

Juz installed Win7 on my T43 and Windows Update installed the audio driver nicely. Problem is I hear no sound playing using the built-in speakers but there's sound when I connect my earphone to the audio jack.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

I've been using a IBM T43 for years, recently started to carry around thus looking at the lighter and more powerful notebook.

or a brand new ASUS Eee PC 1215B?

Any advise?

Harryc wrote:Try one memory module at a time. Try both slots with each module.

Tried that, one slot at a time and at different slot. Also tried different memory.

Harryc wrote:Remove all memory. Does the laptop beep?

Yup it's beep. Also pretty sure the memory are working.

Ok, will take a look at F2 fuse. Any idea how can I check for the BGA failure? If these are the cases, will it still work if I connect to the external monitor?

BTW, can I confirm that the minimum attached components are processor (even without the fan) and memory in order to see the BIOS screen?

I tried the LCD on another T43 and it's working fine so that rule out the LCD inverter.