If nobody else comes forward, I have XP Pro recovery media for the X61. Aside from a few missing drivers I'd imagine it should work reasonably well.

I also have XP and 2K for the T23, and I have XP for the T30 - if you're interested in any I will host ISOs for you. I do not have 2K for the T30, but if anyone wants to share it with me too so I can file it with the rest of my TP restore archives, I'd be grateful.

It's the EEPROM dump from the security chip, the Atmel 24RF08.

Yeah, they sent that to me too. They've got good feedback and I know the Chinese new year is right about now, so I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt, for the 2-3 weeks they're asking for anyway. Well within the "file a claim" window if it does turn out to be a hoax.

According to posts 41 and 42 of the thread linked to by RBS in the post above, it should work in a T61.

I see a few just popped up on eBay, if you (or anyone else) is still looking...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/264160525331?ul_noapp=true

I have both XP Pro and 2000 Pro for the T23. I can host ISOs or mail you CDs. Let me know.

I've got a 14.1" 16:10 T61 with the NVS 140, with an nvidia-safe manufacture date of 08/09 - among the last T61s produced. Very good shape, 8 or 9 out of ten, cosmetically. Specs: MTM 7665-CTO CPU: Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.0) RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) GPU: nVidia Quadro NVS 140m (128MB) HDD: 500GB 7200RPM LCD: 14...

I have the x86 Win7 Pro recovery set for this model, 2 DVDs. I can host ISOs or mail discs. Let me know if you are interested.

Ugh, I can think of a bunch of ways to spend this $5+ billion he wants for this thing on something OTHER than a wall, to make people's lives better...

Guess it's a good thing I used PayPal when I ordered my TP25, and I have changed addresses since then too. Tough luck, hackers!

I have the set made with the "Create recovery media" tool on a Windows 7 x64 T440p. If you're interested let me know.

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.