i want to say this is simply the nature of the incandescent backlighting that R500 use. it’s like the same technology as a fluorescent lamp, it has a warm-up time. they do wear with usage, it’s normal. the LCD is replaceable. virtually all R500 were sold with a cable that only supports the economy-t...

Lo and behold, it's somehow still alive after 19 years and 869 cycles. https://i.imgur.com/DCYUUOel.jpeg Laptop seems to work alright running W7 Ult x32 on the T2300, 2GB RAM, and 500GB HDD it came to me with. All I've done is install W7 (seller had W10 on it) and flash a modified BIOS and type "slm...

I never had success modifying T420 or T430 heatsinks for use with the 45W quads. If it was a T430 I’d suggest the 3612QM or 3632QM which are deliberately underpowered and rated at 35W. For T420 in my experience it was better to stick with the basic i5. They are not slow.

If you press Esc at the ThinkPad Splashscreen it will show some useless info. Within the BIOS (press F12 at the Splashscreen) there is a tool to check the Hard drive for errors. That’s it for R500. Possibly tell more about the issues it’s having and someone might know something helpful.

my oldie R60 has no issue running 2048x1536 on gma 950. IBM was pairing 1600x1200 with Pentium IIIs. HD3000 is a lot better.

R60 has a different case than T60, a W500 heatsink wont fit.

you would need the ATI heatsink. From the R60 HMM at p. 201: https://thinkpads.com/support/hmm/hmm_pdf/42x3749_02.pdf Thermal device and fan ATI Toshiba 41W5269 CCI 41W5270 Furukawa 41W5271 You can google image search or ebay search or similar for the FRU numbers (eg. 41W5269) to pull up photos and ...

funny on T60 i managed to cram a 15.4” heatsink into a standard screen body, i only had to break off the guides for the broadband antennas.

Always follow your heart.

That is such a bummer. After all this, even tho you love the laptop, please compare the price against replacing the laptop or taking no further action.

Respectfully

Try this for ThinkVantage Active Protection System 1.78.0.11 https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/gqsa11ww.exe (x86) https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/gqsk11ww.exe (x64) Readme: https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/gqsa11ww.txt https://down...

aliexpress may have cheaper batteries than amazon. they all come from china but if you buy from ali you skip paying for amazon’s overhead and real estate tax of the domestic distribution centers.

another X270, they surely haven’t gone up in value. Yoga 260, 370, L380, L390, L13 may be other contenders. these machines retain absolutely no value and the fair price is the cost of shipping it around + markup.

theterminator93 is correct, i got my numbers confused :oops: back when i put w7 on p71 i had w7 on a t430 then just put the drive in the p71. alternatively there’s modified installers for w7 out there with nvme/usb3 drivers included. last i had access to it, i also had w7 dualbooting with 10 on my t...

Looks like It has been “refurbished” with a sticker.

Wear and tear is normal especially on a 14 year old laptop. If it was mine id peel it off all the way.

sounds like an extra special unicorn. :) closest i got was upgrading a titanium Z61m to WUXGA (and finishing it with a Z61e touchpadless palmrest), and trying to put T500 and R500 motherboards in Z60m chassis - for future reference, R61 or T61 motherboard is the best fit. Z-series is strangely charm...

Skylake was the last officially supported by Lenovo, so P70, P50, T470, T25 … I was able to make W7 work on P71 (Kaby Lake) but lack of DX12 and TB3 support undermined my interest in casual rendering, so to this day it’s ran 10. Some folks have made W7 work on T480 and other newer chipsets but ymmv.

i would hunt ebay for the part or for a complete laptop "for-parts". alternatively post a WTB on the forum marketplace, someone may offer you a good deal.

the only value is sentimental and the only cost is logistics.

i browsed with a proxy the last week, now it's working normally for me as well.

at this point there’s little performance ROI doing anything extravagant. A large page file on an SSD obviates massive amounts of RAM. web browsing and office work, even video rendering can be done just fine on a dual core, with Sandy Bridge 2c4t being some of the best mobile dual cores of history. f...

utilizing the PC Card slot with a CF card adapter may be an alternative for expanding storage. with storage having gotten so cheap the SATA bay is in most situations generous enough.

the CPU is BGA soldered to the board. going from i5 dual core to i7 dual core is not worth it. going to i7 quad core may be worth it if you're going to run CPU-intensive software the likes of rendering, compiling, etc.. on your X230T, since it'll get the jobs done a little faster with more cores/thr...

years ago i paid $150 for a K2000M W530. ymmv

There’s an even bigger hole on the opposite side of the laptop, with what looks like fan blades behind it.

Best keep it away from water.

15”-16.9” has been the more popular screen size in laptops market overall. So it makes sense that this has been the segment to lead engineering. https://www.news.market.us/laptop-statistics/ Maybe Lenovo knows something else if they’re putting the smaller footprint ahead. Or they’ve figured a way to...

what makes X1 Carbon Gen 4 so odd is that it is actually a X1 Yoga Gen 1 convertible just with a regular hinge sold as a laptop. Compare the two reviews on Notebookcheck, you see they're actually the same. Inside X1 C G4: https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/Lenovo/ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_20...

For my T43 fling I wound up running IDE HDD and putting an NVME SSD in the expresscard slot, told OS to use it as RAM/pagefile. Expresscard is marginally faster than SATA1 and this mooted the 2GB RAM limit as well. I do the same thing on my T60/R60 offloading the page-file to a secondary NVME SSD an...

i have come to appreciate the softer glow of ccfls. the tubes aren’t hard to replace when they eventually die. and at the end of the day it just works.

it is possible only with mods. This youtube video explains it better than i can. https://youtu.be/Fs4GjDiOie8?feature=shared Personally i never desired it enough to do on my T500. when i wanted more performance i bought a P71 and an EGPU. you can build a powerful little desktop or server and remote ...

P8400 is fine, they are low energy usage and by virtue of the low clock they are very low temp especially under the beefy T500 heatsink. i have never noticed a meaningful speed difference between different Socket P Core 2 CPUs in web browsing and office work, but since you mention video work, you ac...