Me too!

I bet that both of you have a T20, T21 or T22 with a bad mainboard and you are tired of messing with it!

Chas.

The X3 Base is a piss poor design, especially for something Made in Japan. My X31 came with the X3 Base. It takes 3 hands to remove my x31! The plastic cover on the right front tab on the X3 that hooks into the lip on the front of the X31 was dinged from the factory, which made removal difficult. La...

There's a Network Bridge feature that's supposed to allow you to connect with both Wireless and Wired at the same time. Right click on the Network icon and select Properties. You should see Network Bridge listed under Network Connections. Right click on the icon to see if it is enabled. I had proble...

Bought a plain vanilla T20 PIII 650 with the 13.3" screen new in 2000. Carried it all over the US for 4 1/2 years, worked great (after adding RAM & 7200RPM HDD). Used lightly, mainly for Email, map program and Power Point presentations. In mid 2004 about a month after I read about the T2x non boot p...

A faster HDD will make a much bigger difference. One of the 7200 RPM drives with 8 or MB of cache will speed up your system. 512MB of memory will also help a little with XP.

Although a lot of the hardware is the same or will interchange, T23 TPs have a different mainboard design than the T20, T21 & T22 TPs. They use a later model Intel chipset and seem to have less mainboard failure problems. If someone were shopping for a T2x series TP, I would recommend the T23 over t...

It did, but I replaced it with Arctic Silver 5. Unfortunately, the pad was a LOT thicker. However, the AS5 is getting *SLIGHTLY* better performance with a thick layer than the old pad. I'm thinking it's the fan, though, seeing as it's REALLY slow, and the heatsink is *HOT* all the way along it. The...

Does or did your TP have a silcon rubber thermal pad? If so are you still using it?

I mis-read your header when I responded. I thought it was about T series TPs. I have no experience with X2x TPs so I can't answer your questions. Some things to consider though, the fan could be clogged with dust, pet hair etc. or the thermal compound could be dried out. You will have to open the sy...

My T20 came with a PIII 650 CPU. The fan never ran very much except in DOS Mode or when I booted to DOS, then it ran full speed all of the time. With the 650 CPU it was always pretty cool on the bottom but the upper right hand portion of the keypad over the CPU & Fan/Heatsink was noticeably warm. Th...

I asked if you only needed the vcache setting for DOS apps in a Dos Window and you said yes. I suggested that from my experience, vcache caused problems in Win98SE on ALL of my systems including the one with 768MB of RAM. It's a multi-boot PC with 98SE, NT4 and Win2K. I'm only running 768MB instead ...

ATA-100 refers to the maximum data transfer rate. The real transfer rate is around 5MB/s faster for the 7200 drive. Also, the 7200 drive has a much faster seek time which helps alot in start-up of apps and in multimedia. Agreed. The seek time on these drives is a lot faster plus drives with a lot o...

EDIT: No wait: can't run DOS apps at all with no Vcache settings on this 999MB system. Restoring these Vcache settings solves the problem Interesting, your saying that you have problems running programs in DOS windows without the vcache settings? I have an old Sony 505G PII 200 MHz with 128MB of me...

A PIII M 850 MHz is the fastest CPU that the T21 mainboard was designed to handle. Some people have reported that they are running 900, 950 and 1G CPUs in T21s. You will need a T22 fan for the faster CPUs. Installing a 7200 RPM HDD with 8 + MB of cache will do a lot more for you. Also, 256 MB of mem...

BUNK! ....... BUNK, BUNK, BUNK, BUNK, BUNK! I've built dozens of Win98SE systems and I currently have 5 laptops and 7 desktops sill running Win98SE. I used to follow all of the guru advice and put the recommended vcache entries in the System.ini files. For example: [vcache] MinFileCache=65536 MaxFil...

Could it be that you have more than 512 MB of Ram? If I remember right from Win98 days - max. was 512 Mb Ram supported. There is a lot of urban myth surrounding the amount of RAM that Win98 will support or use. From my research at the time (don't ask for details, I don't remember where I found the ...

I had a 60GB/7200rpm drive (Hitachi) in my X31 for a brief period of time. I found that it caused vibrations when the X31 was put on a hard surface (wooden desk). Nothing extreme, but definitely noticeable. I switched to a 60GB/5400 rpm drive (Toshiba) and the vibrations stopped. I find it fast eno...

Thanks for all of the info. A few months back I replaced the mainboard in my T20. It started having the blinking problem about a year ago - right after I read several messages about others experiencing the same problem. The problem acts like there is a bad capacitor in the start up circuitry because...

A few years ago when internet commerce was just getting started, there was an attempt to exempt these purchases from sales tax being charged by individual states in the US. Many states quickly got around that by saying if a company has a physical presence in the state like a store, outlet, service c...

UPS quality of service seems to depend a lot on your geographical location and the ship to point. Business to Business shipments usually get a higher priority than residential addresses. UPS adds a surcharge to residential shipments. We have 6 branch locations and we ship and receive thousands of pa...

Look at the memory. T22's have PC-100....T23's have PC-133. There's a better way. These IBM/Lenovo sites have parts listings with visual breakdowns of the components: T20, T21 & T22 http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4UYKLK#modelmatrix T23 http://ww...

Last fall there were several sellers on eBay offering one size fits all deals on "T23" mainboards. They were also suggesting that you send them you TP and they would turn your T20, T21 or T22 into a T23.

They disappeared pretty fast.

Now I go back that far as well. I have written lots of punched card programs (although I always hated punched cards and used disks and even tape wherever I could) ... JD Hurst IBM 360 at CMU via Teletype 1968-9 IBM 1952-5 Pitt, ran punch cards and wired up bread boards for my brother-in-law. I was ...

Have you tested the AC power supply? They do go bad and you could have a dead battery.... It could happen! I've had several "bricks" go bad and one of my T20 batteries just died. I would check out the power supply before replacing the mainboard. The IBM Maintenance Manual shows how to check the batt...

Try NOD32. It's the best of over 25 different AV programs I've tried or used during the past 10 years.

A 5400 or 7200 RPM HDD with a 2MB cache isn't going to show as much increase in performance as one of these faster drives with 8, 12 or 16MB of cache (buffer or memory built into the drive that speeds up data acquisition). My X31 came with a 40G 5400 RPM HDD with 2MB of cache. This TP wasn't a whole...

Contrary to what you say about the 7xx series, I've never had any problems with the 755CD I once owned, or the many 760's I've owned or the 760ED I currently own though I do agree that the yellow tipped barrel plug is much nicer, mainly because it's a standardized connector that can easily be repla...

The plugs on the the old TP7xx series were so fragile that they included spares with the laptops. The later yellow tipped plugs were an improvement. Dells have a much poorer design. The socket comes loose inside the laptop. A friend of mine's son just got to college and found that his AC socket was ...

I would look at top of the line Toshibas first. They were always the #2 choice of corporate buyers. Dell seems to have improved a lot over the past few years. I worked on some earlier Dells and the construction was junk compared to a TP.

I live in Oakland, I'd be interested in the 1G CPU.