Speaking of wireless cards, i have been doing a little searching and I can't find any site that does reviews of laptop wireless cards. Is there such a site, and failing that, what cards are deemed the best for a T61?

Sounds like grub became corrupted for whatever reason. Try again, if you have windows recovery disks it is easy to rewrite the MBR of the drive. No need to reinstall. Of course, if you don't have another computer, look up how to reinstall the Windows bootloader before trying to install linux again.

Anyone got a 15" T60 motherboard frame, or should I make another WTB?

I've done the FrankenPad mod before (see topic here ) but I reverted it back to a T60 config because of stability issues. However, because of this topic I got exited to do the mod again :) I did a quick search on eBay and did find a bottom frame of a T61 14" 4:3, X3100 GPU, complete with CPU fan, p...

Can you give us a little more information? I assume that you are using Mint 13. What exactly happens with the boot menu?

Hey everyone, I'm looking parts for a T60-T61 Frankenpad conversion. The first thing on the list is a T61 14" 4:3. I'm leaning more towords an Intel board (42w7648 or 42w7872) but I won't say no to an nVidia board that has been well-tested. I'll consider offers for both motherboards and complete or ...

Wow, this is great! The big four of T6x are all here! ajkula66, thanks for the advice, however the increased power of a (working) nVidia board is enticing, especially if I am going to keep this machine for 3-4 years. Tuus, I am willing to use an nVidia board, as getting a working Intel board as a ba...

Thanks Tuus! So you think, if I am careful, I can get an nVidia chip that is fine? I thought all of them were fatally flawed and waiting to conk out in the middle of an important project.

I had done T60-T61 mobo swap twice. For putting T60 motherboard into T61 case you need to do the same thing as putting T61 motherboard into T60/p chassis, i.e. to file the structure frame in two places. When putting T60 mobo into T61 chassis, you can keep the modem CDC with some efforts. I have two...

There is really no point 'frankenpadding' a T61 with a T60 motherboard, but I guess it would be a logical step, if you want to reuse the T61 chassis and the T60 mobo. The T60 15" chassis only needs a bit 'shaved off' in one place, where the T61-modem-connector ends up. A few minutes with a Dremel a...

Johan, Thanks for the link but I have done most of my homework. I'd like to know if the thermal sensing error for a Penryn processor on a Meryon board means the board will not be able to read CPU temperature, and what exactly needs to be modded in the T61 frame to support a T60 motherboard. I didn't...

Cheers mate and thanks for the reply. Can you say exactly where and how the cage needs to be adapted?

So, after purchasing a 15" T60 a few months ago I really like this machine, but I have decided I could use the extra power a t61 board could give me, while not losing my very nice UXGA. I have done quit a lot of reading on the conversion but I have a few questions that I have not found answers for. ...

Once you boot into the system it should be fine, and the booting isn't much slower than an HDD. If you have enough RAM space (best if 768MB but 512 is fine) then you can load the OS into RAM for faster everything except start time, which will be about twice as slow.

For the Compaq, have you considered running it off a flash drive instead of a hard drive? You could stop it frying the hard drive and get a lot of mileage out of an 8GB flash drive with Puppy Linux on it or something similar. If you want to do that, of course.