Nice find! I abused loved my T61p since I received it new in October of 2007, until I officially retired it in favor of the W520 I have in my sig. in early 2015. Aside from the well known GPU issue (which as many have said, with these being 11-12 years old now, that would be common with any system) ...

I am. Shipping internationally is not out of the question but can be cost prohibitive, I'd say. Usually $40-$50 to ship overseas (although I can fit two into one box, if I omit the AC adapters, which makes it slightly less horrific), compared to the $12-$13 it is to ship domestically. If you're inte...

Yes, thanks, T400 plural, not T400s singular.

Got a handful of T400s to sell off. Type is 2768-GY8 on the first two. Number 3 is 2768-KQ9 and the last is 2768-CTO. All have the same basic specs. Unit 4 has no RAM or HDD: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 (2.53 GHz) "Penryn" RAM: 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3-8500 HDD: 160GB 7200RPM GPU: ATi Radeon HD 3470 OS: Win...

I'll add my experiences as well. I've worked with maybe 30 T61s, all 14" widescreen NVS 140 models, and I don't recall any of them failing of the defect either. Most are dated October 2007. Now, for the T61p with the FX570m? I've worked with five of them, and four have either died the nVidia death, ...

I have everything you need for the 14.1" 16:10 T61. If interested send me an offer, and I can send pics as well. I can send an entire machine you can use for parts as well, if you'd rather go that route. Since you're only a couple hours' drive from here zone based USPS Priority shipping should be on...

Yes, GPU (not sure how I missed that typo!). As was said, look for the date code in week and year of manufacture. Nobody knows exactly what week the chip problem had been revised by on the assembly line though. I've had the luxury of having come across numerous 0809 dated nvidia T61s to sell. I stil...

Well, it's by no means brand new... it's just well cared for. The fact that there is hinge play speaks that it was used regularly for a time, possibly with a docking station and an external mouse and keyboard - which would explain the lack of wear. I remember when my T61p was brand new, the hinges w...

At the risk of "tooting my own horn..."

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I'd be happy to share what I have for the 600 series. I have two sets for the 600 and two for the 600X; nothing explicitly for the 600E unfortunately (yet, anyway! ).

I'll send a PM with a link shortly.

If you come across anything that you're willing to share, I'd be very grateful!

I've got some files that look like they might be used to create a recovery, but no floppy disk images. If they check out I'd be happy to receive them!

We use FOG in our production environments at work. A little more setup involved but it's quick and snappy to restore whenever needed.

From what I've seen of most (recent) factory recoveries, they take a system image of the C drive and save it to the recovery partition. Since it's just a hard disk image, there isn't a way that I'm aware of to update or add software to it. With the Windows 7 or newer recoveries you could use the bui...

As a few of you probably know I wrote the home page article about the ThinkPad software collection a year and a half-ish ago. I've periodically responded to requests for recovery disks through the comments on that article, as well as when members PM me or publicly post a request here. My goal contin...

I don't have the set for the X40, unfortunately. However I do have XP Pro for the X41 (Tablet). If you'd like to give it a try, let me know.

Anyone seen this? Looks intriguing. Although I won't do this to my T25 quite yet... unless I get another one to play with...

https://kitsunyan.github.io/blog/frankenpad-story.html

Interesting, I stand rightly corrected. Now that you bring it up I have also seen some models with a small rubber plug that goes over a connection that's adjacent to the power plug, which I read somewhere was a dock connector.

These types of docks do not offer charging through the input port. Think of it this way - you can't charge a computer using a powered USB hub or dock over the USB port! The Thunderbolt port can only charge the ThinkPad using the dedicated USB-C type chargers. The Thunderbolt (and USB) docks do not c...

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.