Hi All, yesterday I have manged to change me thermal paste and grease fan bearings. It seems that temperature has droped&fan speed slowed down, however, I have encounter other problem. Led indicators which shows capslock, disk utilization, power, sleep mode and etc. is not working after assembly (on...

My sensors' data: tomas@tomas-ThinkPad-X61s ~ $ sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +46.0°C (crit = +127.0°C) temp2: +46.0°C (crit = +100.0°C) thinkpad-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter fan1: 3894 RPM fan2: 0 RPM temp1: +46.0°C temp2: +55.0°C temp3: +55.0°C temp4: +44.0°C temp5: N/A ...

2x4GB RAM. And I assume you already installed Middleton's BIOS? http://www.ali.dj/sata-ii-support-for-lenovo-thinkpad-t61-x61-r61/ Yes I have it :) Hi neighbor, I'd try with fan maintenance first (silicon-based grease lasts longer). If that doesn't help, e.g. the fan is kinda physically damaged, ge...

Hi All, I would like to upgrate my x61s as it became as hobby to me now :), however, I do not know what mode would be the most useful to me. What is the most iritating thing for me at the moment - loud fan. Is it possible to reduce its sound and increase efficiency of it? Otherwise I will be going f...

So my results are not bad: Timing cached reads: 3984 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1995.60 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 710 MB in 3.01 seconds = 236.23 MB/sec tomas@tomas-ThinkPad-X61s ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output.img bs=8k count=256k 262144+0 records in 262144+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2,1...

Selected linux mint. Testing it now

Hi,

could you share with me your ssd drive read/write speeds, I would like to benchmark with other collueges.

Thanks in advance!

Hey,

Could someone of You share experience and suggest a linux distro for newbie with unix.
I will run linux on x61s with 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM and SSD drive. PC will be used at home for browsing, videos and email.

Thanks!

Certainly sounds like an issue with the keyboard. Can you verify that all the traces on the ribbon are intact? Are you sure the connection to the motherboard is fully seated? It seems that everything is OK, however if were are any special way to check traces; connections seems firm (You can hear a ...

Hey, I have deassable my x61s in order to clean a fan, however now my keyboard is not working any more. PC is not turning on. If I remove bios battery for a while and plug it on, PC turns on automatically, however, keyboard still is not responding. What could I do wrong? I do not see any visible dam...

40Y7003 Thank You for nice overall introduction. I am not sure which battery to choose, i.e. 8 or 4 cells. I am not planning to travel with my x61s somewhere for whole day w/o power source. So if 4 cells could give me 2-3 hours of work, it would be fine for me. However, extra time would be a great ...

Hey Everyone, I am newbie here! I have bought my first x61s several days ago during old IT stuff auction which was held at my working place. I have paid EUR 60 for it. It seems a bargain. My x61s has: CPU: 1,6 GHz (L7500); RAM: 2GB; HDD: 100GB; Basically I have two questions: 1. Battery is totally d...