I've been running W10 on both my T510 and W510 since last October and both run great.

You need to switch off completely (not restart/reboot), if you don't manage to press Escape in time. You should start hitting the Esc button the very moment you press the Power button. If you hit it in time, you should see some messages on your screen, after which it should boot into the HMD progra...

Since nobody bothered to reply I figured it must be stupid simple. It was. I'll reset reset the situation just in case some knucklehead like me is befuddled by the same situation. I had installed a new mobo in my W510 and booted up. It booted up without incident but couldn't see the S.M.A.R.T. data ...

Geez! Here I thought that replacing the mobo was going to be the hard part! Do you hit "esc" one time or multiple times; or do you hold it down continously? The following is going to really date me: :oops: As you probably know, making a bootable usb with the utility provided with the HMD doesn't wor...

It must be easier to find the current nuclear launch codes! Sheesh! With that out of the way, I was able to find version 1.83 and, with Rufus, (thanks for that too) create a bootable usb drive to with which I made the invalid uuid go away. However, I can't seem to get around the EEPROM write protect...

I replaced the motherboard on my W510 but it won't boot unless the SATA configuration in BIOS is set to RAID. If I set it to either AHCI or Compatibility. It will crash on boot up without leaving a dump and basically go into a boot loop. After I reset the SATA to raid it will boot but I can't use my...

I just replaced the motherboard on my W510 and now when it boots up I get the following errors: 2200: Machine Type Invalid and Serial Number are invalid. 2201: Machine UUID is Invalid After that, it goes on to boot "normally". My research suggests that a it is possible to "Fix" this issue with softw...

2422-7VU is unknown. According to partslist you have mobo 60Y4463 which has ATI GPU. Don't know if switchable (should be), but check your BIOS under Config/Display if this option is there and if so, enabled or not. Sorry for the confusion. I transposed the the machine type numbers. It should be 224...

My T61P with the NVIDIA graphics died on me Friday. I was "under the gun" and wanted to get back up quickly and decided to replace it with another T series. I scored a "fixer upper" T500 (2422 7VU; R-8ERYV3 09/09) off craigslist. It recognized my T61p Windows 8.1 Pro system disk and booted up straig...

. . . . .I do hope that Lenovo is supporting drivers and utilities for Windows 8 especially in the case of the ATI FireGL driver............it defeats the objective of updating the Systems Upddates for Wins 8 and then provide nothing else to update. I have searched high and low, East and West and e...

Contact TuuS . He likely knows everything a single human being is capable of knowing about T61/p range. Might have the part that you're looking for as well.. Good luck.[/quote] Plus one on TuuS. I had thermal issues on my T61p and tried everything. I ordered a T61p fan heatsink combo form TuuS, thre...

Windows 8 runs great on either a T60 or T61p with the following exception. With W8 RP Microsoft "broke" multi monitor support on the ATI FireGL V5250. Multi monitors worked fine on the T60 with both DP and CP. As for the Win8 tiled UI, it can be bypassed altogether. My favorite solution is a free ut...

Has anyone tried to move a hard drive being used in a T61p to a T420? When I move the drive, the Windows 7 spash screen starts and then BSOD. Went thru the fix steps and still nothing. So, is there anything I can do to preload drivers so I can move this drive over ? Thanks. You can "Sysprep" your h...

I did some more poking around and found where TuuS had sort of answered my question on the Lenovo forums.( http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-pri ... d-p/675077 ). I'm now reasonably sure what I need to do.

I did some more poking around and found a recommendation for HWMonitor (http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor/versions-history.html) which agrees with SpeedFan. It says my Nvidia is running at 70C +/-. I'm betting that's not good :cry: I just applied a little Arctic silver to it yesterday. Should...

With my old T60p I had serious HDD and CPU heat issues until I started using an Antec USB dual fan laptop cooler with it. When I upgraded to a T61p, a docking station came with it. It runs much hotter with the docking station but TP Fan Control seems to keep the cpu and gpu temps around 60c at idle....

. . . . When you're done run thinkpad fan control (tpfancontrol.com). At idle your temps should be in the low 60c degrees for the cpu a,d several degrees cooler for the gpu. The sign of a poorly fitted heatsink, or improper application of thermal paste is often high gpu temps. It's not abnormal to ...

It's funny you mentioned the T9300, as everybody else I know is using the same CPU on they're various T61/R61/R61i ThinkPads after installing the Middleton BIOS! :lol: Not strange, its value for money ratio is best among Penryns. I have one in my frankenpad as well ;) I came to the exact same concl...

You have a penryn board, but you may suffer nVidia failure at some point. I wouldn't be so worried about it dying because it was build in may 2008 as much as I'd be worried about where it came from. If it was an original corporate laptop that's never failed, then it may last ten years, but if it wa...

Just ordered Arctic 5 thermal paste and was wondering if the Win 7 32 isn't overtaxing the T61. Everything is going smoothly so far, for the most part, and I prefer the Win 7 interface. I was thinking though, that the more basic Win XP 32 might be less demanding on the system and would leave more r...

You have a penryn board, but you may suffer nVidia failure at some point. I wouldn't be so worried about it dying because it was build in may 2008 as much as I'd be worried about where it came from. If it was an original corporate laptop that's never failed, then it may last ten years, but if it wa...

I recommend the T9300. I myself have upgraded from a t7300 to a 9300....besides the temperature drop you are also gona see a nice performance increase in resource intense programs. To untilize the full power i also recommend buying 2 of the same RAM modules for Dual CHannel performance. Well it arr...

What is the TYPE etc. on the bottom, looks like: TYPE 6703-45U S/N L3-B4567 07/04 Failing that, at boot press F1 to go into BIOS, then give us what you find after: System-unit serial number . You would help us (and yourself) by answering our questions, instead of throwing up more suppositions... Hm...

ajkula66 wrote:
There was a spot for the mobo FRU but it was missing. Somewhere else someone indicated that might mean it's been previously stolen??

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Hogwash.

FRU number means absolutely nothing in terns of identification along those lines...

Glad to hear that.

Plug in your laptop's TYPE (e.g. 6506) and S/N without hyphen (e.g. L3DB124) here: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/partsLookup.page In the ensuing parts list find your motherboard P/N (called PLANAR in IBM-speak). Look the P/N or FRU up in the HMM. My mobo has got to be 44C3931 wh...

Only if your OS is 64-bit. And Photoshop just LOVES RAM! http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-performance-photoshop-cs4-cs5.html#main_Max_out_on_RAM I'm running W7 x64 which has been running fine in 3gb. I just cloned my main HD, sysprepped it, and stuck it in the new machine. Let's see wha...

I recommend the T9300. I myself have upgraded from a t7300 to a 9300....besides the temperature drop you are also gona see a nice performance increase in resource intense programs. To untilize the full power i also recommend buying 2 of the same RAM modules for Dual CHannel performance. I already h...

If you remove the battery, you might see a small white label with the motherboard's P/N or FRU. If not there, remove palmrest and RAM modules, to find another label under the RAM slots. if 42W7653 Merom if 42W7877 Penryn I couldn't find either FRU on the new machine but I may have discovered anothe...

ajkula66 wrote:On a different note...none of the nVidia GPUs on T61/p were 512MB...128 and 256 were the real figures.

What's the production date on the unit that you've received?

I followed the instructions in some other thread and the production date is April, 2008. Lucky me. April is my birth month.

. . . . From the updates I've done the security chip must be disabled first, then a cold start-up before the doing the install of the Middleton BIOS - once the ThinkPad's rebooted I'll go back into the BIOS, apply the set-up defaults, reboot, back into the BIOS, re-enable the security chip and then...