How much of structural stuff do you have to repair? Like if you just mean the magnesium bottom chassis palmrest corners are cracked that can be repaired with epoxy. From my experience there are epoxies that work best on plastics and there are epoxies that work pretty well on metal, but takes ages to...

I'm struggling to reproduce the issue now. I swapped the BIOS battery, and the old battery had 3.11v so I think that rules it out being flat? I learnt something new too, I didn't realise the BIOS batteries were not rechargeable, I thought the machine charges them whilst it was powered on, but infac...

I actually have both a Dell Latitude D520 and a HP Compaq nc6320. Both feature the same 945GM chipset as the T60 - but these support up to 3.25-3.3GB of RAM rather than 3GB due to better optimized BIOS. Unfortunately for you, both are also equipped with 15" SXGA+ WVA displays so I am gonna have to d...

Over the last 4 years, I've collected - a set of known good 18650s from Samsung - A spot welder kit from a maker in Germany (I'll try and find the link to it) - An 18650 charger with good ratings. What I haven't yet collected it the courage to go ahead with a test build :oops: . Well funny thing I ...

What kind of specs are you after? Yes 14.1" XGA screen but do you want it Pentium III era, Pentium 4/M era or Core duo Core 2 duo stuff? If you say you want T60 T61 specifically then you want Core duo Core 2 duo stuff I am assuming?

I'm trying to get a couple of spare T420 batteries to try and re-cell them. If that alleviates the issue, nothing like it, but it'll take some time to complete if at all. well good luck with that. Just telling you it will be at least with a few of these battery packs before you can get all the expe...

I've also had ThinkPads that react unpredictablely if the battery is like very dead. I had a ThinkPad T60 that would randomly freeze because the power management triggered protection when the battery was like 0V dead (no cells are alive). And that T520 mobo of mine that doesn't charge batteries prop...

Great idea - Do you happen to know what the voltage would be for a "good" cmos battery after a few days storage? I'll leave mine over the weekend then grab the multimeter and I'll start by seeing if I have a parasitic drain. I can compare to my original X201's CMOS battery too. A highly charged CMO...

I don't own these but I believe a more "silly" testing method is if you have a bench power supply go and supply 3V to the cmos battery connector and read the power draw. If what you're suggesting is that the CMOS battery runs empty after just a few days (and that the CMOS battery is actually deplete...

In response to your idea of harvesting a thick bezel - I could do that. Problem is, I don't have a dead panel of that size. I'd have to harvest it from my working 1600x900 panel which I'd rather not do. I also don't have a dremel I could use to cut the bottom part out. I'm thinking right now that I...

The IPS adapter in question works on the E6420. It booted into windows, 1080p IPS goodness. Seeing a screen that good on this thing has filled me with more determination to make this mod work. I now need another one of those adapters, and another IPS display (rip). Mounting will be a challenge, but...

As for fitting the chin into the E6420, we'll see. It may not work. If it doesn't fit, 1440 route it is. I highly suggest you sort that out first before even trying the electrical side of things. The chin on those screens is EXTREMELY sensitive, if any part of the chin is being touched or mangled b...

That sucks, glad we got the ThinkPad community, and I think Lenovo still has drivers for them as well as for IBM Aptiva, NetVista and early IBM ThinkCentre. I know Dell still has drivers as far back to 2000s, Optiplex and probably older. My Optiplex GX260 drivers were still their last time I needed...

i think it was the custom connector that the adapter used. the e6420 should just be standard. im not giving up the IPS dream yet, i'm gonna look into the generic adapter. Again I just think it's a bad idea when also the shape of the LCD screen is going to be completely different and present serious...

sounds like what happened. I'd assume a generic adapter wouldn't do this. I figured that 40 pin lvds was 40 pin lvds, didn't realize that the adapter's proprietary cable did funky things with it. I think I lost the LCD - I can't know for sure until I get another adapter but the backlight no longer ...

Acer used to keep a healthy catalogue of drivers up to the XP era of machines, until like last year where they dumped basically all drivers that aren't for windows 10... Now you're gonna have to resort to either archive and restore discs or see if driverscollection will have the right version for it...

I know there is a Taobao seller that sells BGA to PGA adapted CPU's I believe it's Yimian. I bought a couple of wacky i7-2677M in Socket G2 flavours from that seller before. Idk if that seller does Haswell, but I know there's Sandy and Ivy BGA -> Socket G2 stuff

Left mouse button was removed when I took the photo but that was only for cleaning. After cleaning it's still little erratic and sometimes you have to press a little hard or more on one side of the button. I have no idea if the contact can be cleaned more assertively or do they at some point irreve...

Well if you have a battery installed the battery LED should do its thing (yellow if the battery is charging or dead, green if it's almost charged or charged). if your motherboard isn't even going that far then a new keyboard certainly won't help you much.

I have complete screen assembly for the 770ED, it was working before the laptop itself died and I parted it out. The hinges are very loose and the lid rubber has definitely gone bad. lmk if you're interested in that. Canada Post small packets air to the US is actually fairly reasonable, about half a...

As and when you get to any of the Thinkpad batteries, can I request you to document the opening of the battery pack, if you manage to do it non-destructively? Unfortunately I don't have a sure fire way to open these up without destruction. I just simply find the best suitable opening point, twistin...

Well I am the proud owner of the Acer Iconia 6120, that quirky "laptop" from early 2011 that has two 14" 10 point multitouch touchscreens (using the then brand new Corning Gorilla Glass mind you), one of which on the bottom replacing the conventional keyboard. This looks like a modern incarnation of...

this particular r61 has a power hungry IDTech UXGA which looks best at max brightness. and to get any decent paced performance i need the Core 2 at max frequency. my t500 can do a little better. honestly aside from my X330 i think the only laptop i have that can beat 5 hours is my ancient Toughbook...

Is 11’s dwm more of a hog than 10 22h2’s? Ive got 10 22h2 operating usefully on x61 and r61, with their terrible graphics, the r61 with my panasonic 9 cell actually gets a decent 2-3 hour runtime and i can play lichess at 60fps at a lowered native res. Ivy bridge is more than capable of whatever th...

Over the past month or so I have been on a marathon of rebuilding my laptop batteries, after finding a neat seller locally that sells cheap gently used 3500mah LG 18650 MJ1 3500mah cells along with spot welding services for minimally extra, and I have some bare but brand new sanyo 3500mah 18650GA ce...

Look at the "1vyrain" thread above your post, to get rid of the wifi whitelist. After that, get e.g. an AX3000 mini-PCIe card such as this . I guess it's worth mentioning that I actually just tried the Intel AX200 wifi card today it works just fine on my Acer Aspire 4752, so yeah it's also an optio...

AFAIK the batteries from the A2x/A3x/R3x/R4x/R5x/T2x/T30/T4x/X2x/X3x/X4x series all have the same 5-pin connectors and they can all use the same 16V chargers. This means that -with such a cable- you should be able to use any battery in any laptop, as long as both are one of the above A/R/T/X series...

In my teardown i found the right upper hinge mounts were already disintegrated, but the bottom still works. Left hinge has a metal brace part of the palmrest that assists the left hinge, so it has held up. Well that seems like a typical problem. The good news is it is perfectly fixable on these and...

Last year a friend of mine gave me their old Dell Inspiron N5110, and i remembered it existed yesterday. Honestly it’s the sort of laptop i wanted when it was new, a fairly priced consumer laptop with good performance and upgrade potential, it’s actually quite charming for a plastic laptop. My upgr...

My 15.0" T43 left hinge exploded when I opened the lid yesterday and I was wondering if the 14.1" hinge is the same size. I have a dead 14.1" that can serve as a donor, but I don't want to open my 15.0" all the way to find out they ares different sizes. Has anyone did this job previously? The 14.1 ...