It seems the fuses really were the problem. Replacing both the 'P' (F7) and 'F' fuse did the trick and brought back the LED's and backlight. I've got my ThinkPad back! :D Again, big thanks to richk for his invaluable help! Hey Wap can you tell me where i could buy the fuses. If possible post some l...

Welcome to the forum. Your problem IS the nVidia graphics card. T61 models are notorious for this. It's caused by a badly engineered graphics chip, inside of which some layers become unstuck. Unfortunately the only repair is to replace the motherboard. BTW, the GPU has two output channels, a digita...

Hello Everyone, I bought a T61p in jan-2008. I have sent this thinkpad to service centers for repair a couple of times, once for replacing the motherboard( the bios updater screwedup) and the other time for a broken LCD hinge. The service was excellent (they even sent me spare parts a couple of time...