Duh. I've been working with too many T420s lately. :) Worth mentioning is the fact that the mSATA slot is limited to SATA-II speed, whereas the Ultrabay and 2.5" SATA bay are SATA-III. I have never really noticed any negative side effects of on any of my *20 series machines, but it is a technical li...

All of the W520s will have a Quadro and the iGPU. The lower end models will have the Quadro 1000M, the higher end ones will have the Quadro 2000M, which is about 35% faster than the 1000M. You can also install an mSATA SSD and keep the 2.5" HDD and ODD. There is a slot for one (or a WWAN module if s...

I love my W520. I don't notice any sluggishness or lagging doing day-to-day computing. I also use it to encode Blu-rays on occasion. Make sure you get a quad-core model and upgrade it to 8GB+ RAM and an SSD and you'll be good to go. Also - Ivy Bridge is not significantly faster clock-for-clock compa...

The caddy does come apart. I disassembled it to take a disk image of the factory install before I started meddling with it. I also did a benchmark... https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=117306 If you have one of the external floppy disk drives and the proper cable you can use floppy disk dri...

Work upgraded our Note 5s to Note 9s last week. So far it hasn't done anything weird to itself.

I have images of the DVDs created with "create recovery media" of a Windows 7 Pro T530 I briefly worked on. Let me know if you want me to share those.

It can be done but Coreboot must be flashed. There are a couple members here who have done it. I looked into it a couple years ago but never went through with it.

First thing I'd do is check task manager to see if there are any lingering processes using one of the cores heavily. If there is you can terminate it and see what happens to the temps without rebooting.

This individual also PM'd me asking for this. He wanted me to upload everything I have (no easy task considering it's nearly 300GB), and stated he wanted to hack/crack them. I didn't bother responding.

Keep them cool, above all else. 70F/20C or so is fair - don't let them freeze, and I'd think putting them in a refrigerator is a little extreme... although a cool basement or cellar (50-60F/10-15C) would be most practically ideal. If the voltage in the cells drops too low they can't be safely rechar...

Depending on how it/what shorted out, it's possible. You'd need to test each fuse individually and replace any that are blown. If none of the fuses are blown then it's not likely to be repairable. I had to replace the LCD/backlight fuses a couple times on my W520 during the process of fitting the IP...

I got mine used off eBay. They are hard to find, for sure, and I paid $50 for it.

I had to set up a saved search using the 40Y8122 and 40Y8124 part numbers. After a few weeks (or maybe it was months?) one popped up and I snagged it.

Probably not related, but I figured I'll mention this anyway... My T60 (now my T601F) would randomly freeze up shortly after I received it a few years ago. As it turned out, there is a problem with the trackpad - I disconnected it and it no longer freezes up (merely turning it off in BIOS was not en...

What you're running into is the fact that the web has evolved well beyond the capabilities of IE5.5. The simplest explanation is probably that few modern web servers will accept the outdated security protocols IE5.5 supports (e.g. SSL 2.0), and simply terminate the connection when no cipher handshak...

Version on my W520 with the 2000m is 22.21.13.8601. Been running that for a good while now, no issues.

No external displays, Optimus enabled. I have modded an FHD IPS panel in mine.

Bump - price adjustment, and unit 3 is now sold.

If the price is right I might be interested in acquiring it. I have a quad core CPU and was going to try a quad mod to see how it performed compared to the T9900 I have in my T601F now, but didn't want to have downtime on it in case something got messed up.

Basic tests I would run include using the various heat sinks, then pulling up TPFanControl and setting fan 64 (max fixed) and monitor temperature of CPU and GPU and running furmark to load the GPU, and Prime95 to load the CPU. Then use CPU-Z to monitor CPU clock speed after temperatures stabilize. O...

There have been a few discussions over the last few years about the differences in these heat sinks/fans and in general the consensus has been "nobody knows" what the differences are. Based on what you've got it sounds like the difference may in fact be just the fan. I've read before (I believe in t...

Take a look at this pic: https://photobucket.com/gallery/user/theterminator93/media/cGF0aDpDb21wdXRlcl9QaWNzLzIwMTcwMTA1XzE3MDAyOV96cHNiZ2swanF6bS5qcGc=/?ref= from https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=122747 That heat sink is the one factory equipped in my W520, with Quadro 2000M and i7-...

I have some Panasonic 9 cells if you want the larger battery. I also have 6 cells but they're all either LG or Sanyo.

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-CTO and the last is 2768-KQ9. 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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