Aside from [slightly] higher clock speeds, the Ivy Bridge CPUs aren't much faster clock-for-clock than Sandy Bridge CPUs. They aren't particularly more power-efficient, or heat-efficient, either. Most benchmarks show 3-5% improvement over Sandy Bridge. There is definitely an improvement, but it's no...

Quite impressive! Very evident the tremendous amount of ingenuity and work that you put into it.

Out of curiosity, why the 727-200?

Heh... I stopped using Chrome (except for certain, very infrequent tasks for work which virtually require the platform) a number of years ago. With all the latest buzz about it I see I wasn't wrong to!

I've got my T601F which I've already 1066 modded and I've been running a T9900. I got a reasonable deal on a Q9100 and am contemplating whether to install it in that machine or mod another T61 for it. I do a fair bit of work on battery and don't want to run into a scenario where it won't be stable o...

I successfully modified the Windows 7 installer to load, recognize USB 3.0 devices as well as the NVMe SSD. I did not go beyond letting the installer see the various W10 partitions of the factory preload. Here's what worked - fairly simple, actually... You need a Windows 7 Pro x64 ISO (I used one wi...

I may be out of my mind... but I think I'm actually going to give it a shot. If I can get the installer to recognize the HDD then I'll consider it a "success" - but I don't have any intentions to wipe my T25 to see about other Win7 drivers [yet]. I'll report back after a while.

From what I can tell, at least one person here has tried. But it didn't appear to work... quote from the relevant thread is below. Windows Compatibility [...] I fought hard to try to get Windows 7 on the machine, but the combination of no native USB 3.1 drivers plus no native NVMe drivers proved tro...

I'll always have a soft spot for the A2* systems. First computer I bought and paid for on my own was an off-lease A22m back in 2004 while I was still in high school. The LCD backlight went bad on it after about a year; I have strangely fond memories of hooking it up to a TV using the S-video port an...

Shipping cost to 44039? I'm assuming by "ready for core 2 quad" that you've done the SPD reflash on the RAM already, correct?

Is the CPU an ES (engineering sample) chip?

Preferred method of payment?

The software I use for my web server is old and finicky; I actually just rebooted my machine that hosts it this morning (because I was having issues RDP'ing into it) and that probably fixed it.

I'm not sure why you would need to flash the Middleton BIOS to run 64 bit Linux. In any case, flashing Middleton's BIOS won't do anything to your hard disk or existing OS/partitions.

Looks like A21m to me, if I blow up the image and run wavelet enhancements on the model number.

I fitted a T420 I bought about 3.5 years ago with the nVidia NVS 4200m, upgraded it with 8GB RAM, the i7 2640m, a 256GB MSATA SSD (kept the 500 GB HDD for storage) and also put in an IPS FHD kit when the T420 non-s kits were being sold. 9/10 (or better) condition... The screen flickers, as do most w...

Trackpoint, keyboard, the ease of upgrading/accessing commonly upgraded/replaced components (e.g. HDD/RAM). The no frills styling is a plus to me as well. Honestly though my first laptop some 20 years ago was a ThinkPad (I bought it because the price was fair for the hardware specs, and I gravitated...

It's about 40-50% faster in some benchmarks, so yes, there is a significant improvement.

I tend to use IBM_ECW and TPFanControl for my hardware undervolting/SpeedStep config needs... but each has their own favorite for their own reasons. Figured I'd point out the combo.

Good input in this thread. The T61 is a fine machine, with a few quirks like any other model, but still worth the time investment to keep running. I "frankenpadded" a secondhand T60 with the T61 motherboard and use it daily as my workhorse on the job. Is it a little long in the tooth? Sure. But is i...

I am not sure. If I had to guess it's probably SP2 since the X61 was released about a year before SP3 was published. The PE image on disc 1 is dated 2009 but the software contents on the other discs are all dated 2006 or 2007, so it seems consistent that it'd be SP2.

Windows 7 and newer are "SSD Aware" operating systems - meaning they automatically turn off certain functions because they either are not needed with or can add unnecessary wear to SSDs. Those include defragmentation and the indexing service for searches, and making sure partitions are "aligned" to ...

The 50 series was short-lived due to the abbreviated Broadwell cycle which was something Intel set. There were delays with the shrink to 14nm for Broadwell after Haswell and instead of delaying Sky Lake, they shortened Broadwell's life cycle. As a result 50 series machines didn't start shipping unti...

Okay, so no fix for those of us (myself included) with FHD kits for the T420 that flicker??

Thanks for the photos and insights into the 6 cell removable battery. I had been considering getting one but haven't pulled the trigger yet; I don't use the system as much as I could, probably because I've not yet developed much of a fondness for Windows 10 yet.

I have the X61 sets for XP Pro and Vista Home Basic (x86) if nobody has the X60 set.

Dr_st pretty much sums it up. Depending on who you talk to, everyone will give a different opinion. The facts are that Li-ion batteries degrade over time much less when they aren't stored at a full charge and are kept cool. Higher temperatures is more degrading than higher charge levels. There was a...

I know I have one, but I think it's my only spare so I'm reluctant to let it go... :( On a different note, the T4x and T6x CD/DVD drives are the same, with the exception of the bezel, which is straight on the T6x but slightly beveled along the bottom on the T4x units. I believe they can be swapped a...

I shipped something via FedEx once, and only once. Their up-front rate was slightly better than the others for my package (it was shipped domestically), maybe a dollar or two less than USPS or UPS. A week or so after delivery, they hit my account with a "fuel surcharge" that cost almost as much as t...

I thought they already killed Windows...

What happens if you pull the CMOS battery to reset everything?

That I can't say, as I don't own either model I haven't done nearly as much research about this issue on them. But I can't say it's not possible. I'd say it's more likely on the A30 than the T30 because the T30 uses the Pentium 4, whereas all the 20 series and the A30 used one of the Pentium III fla...

If all else fails, something to keep in mind is many of the 20 series (A2x, T2x, X2x and TransNote) have a fairly well known motherboard design flaw around the implementation of the power circuit. There isn't a fix that I know of, aside from a known working motherboard. Some have suggested the sourc...