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by kfzhu1229
Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:14 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T40/T41/T42/T43 Series
Topic: T43 wont turn on
Replies: 14
Views: 973

Re: T43 wont turn on

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.
by kfzhu1229
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Marketplace - Forum Members only
Topic: WTB: Thinkpad 770 parts - LCD inverter, DC board...
Replies: 14
Views: 1243

Re: WTB: Thinkpad 770 parts - LCD inverter, DC board...

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...
by kfzhu1229
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: ThinkPad X200/X201/X220 and X300/X301 Series
Topic: X220 Battery Recelling
Replies: 9
Views: 2357

Re: X220 Battery Recelling

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...
by kfzhu1229
Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:47 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
Topic: Lenovo finally did it, virtually zero contrast display
Replies: 4
Views: 194

Re: Lenovo finally did it, virtually zero contrast display

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...
by kfzhu1229
Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T430-T490 / T530-T590 Series
Topic: Windows 11 on Thinkpad T530?
Replies: 11
Views: 1036

Re: Windows 11 on Thinkpad T530?

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...
by kfzhu1229
Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T430-T490 / T530-T590 Series
Topic: Windows 11 on Thinkpad T530?
Replies: 11
Views: 1036

Re: Windows 11 on Thinkpad T530?

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...
by kfzhu1229
Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: ThinkPad X200/X201/X220 and X300/X301 Series
Topic: X220 Battery Recelling
Replies: 9
Views: 2357

Re: X220 Battery Recelling

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...
by kfzhu1229
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:02 am
Forum: ThinkPad T430-T490 / T530-T590 Series
Topic: T430s Wireless options
Replies: 4
Views: 1033

Re: T430s Wireless options

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...
by kfzhu1229
Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:47 am
Forum: ThinkPad T20-T23 & T30 Series. NOT for T25-Retro
Topic: T21 with 600Mhz PIIIe cpu?
Replies: 24
Views: 23007

Re: T21 with 600Mhz PIIIe cpu?

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...
by kfzhu1229
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
Topic: I Got A Dell
Replies: 5
Views: 1304

Re: I Got A Dell

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...
by kfzhu1229
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
Topic: I Got A Dell
Replies: 5
Views: 1304

Re: I Got A Dell

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...
by kfzhu1229
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T40/T41/T42/T43 Series
Topic: T43 hinge sizes
Replies: 4
Views: 1433

Re: T43 hinge sizes

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 ...
by kfzhu1229
Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:46 am
Forum: ThinkPad Legacy Hardware
Topic: HDD interposer for iSeries and 39X
Replies: 15
Views: 3182

Re: HDD interposer for iSeries and 39X

I've seen the failures on many ebay listings...darn stress cracks. Not surprised, but who at Compal (who made that thing for Dell) thought it would be a good idea to make a laptop with a screen bigger than the body of the laptop and then to put tiny hinges in it like would barely be suitable for a ...
by kfzhu1229
Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: ThinkPad Legacy Hardware
Topic: HDD interposer for iSeries and 39X
Replies: 15
Views: 3182

Re: HDD interposer for iSeries and 39X

that's a dang good price for a 7500! i usually see them listed at around $100 or more... sucks because I kind of want one, simply because I think they're absolutely hideous. and are apparently pretty decent specs-wise. hideous...but apparently quite functional. I restored one myself I know those th...
by kfzhu1229
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:09 pm
Forum: Thinkpad - General HARDWARE/SOFTWARE questions
Topic: Can you charge a T23/T30/T40 battery in a T60?
Replies: 4
Views: 3446

Re: Can you charge a T23/T30/T40 battery in a T60?

Well I guess I do know that a ThinkPad A2x/T20/21/22 battery is not going to charge here. I learnt this the hard way that even if I put my rebuilt A22m battery in my thinkpad T42 with the same connector, the communication do not work, although the battery will discharge okay. (My A30 battery works f...
by kfzhu1229
Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:26 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
Topic: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently
Replies: 10
Views: 2300

Re: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently

Interesting. How do I do that? I found this thread , but it's old and I know from experience these flags are frequently changed or retired completely. You cannot trust a workaround existing in some old version of Chromium still being available... I just tried this like 2 months ago and used that ov...
by kfzhu1229
Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
Topic: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently
Replies: 10
Views: 2300

Re: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently

My experience is that the integrated Intel graphics in the T60/61 will play youtube video better than the dedicated Ati/Nvidia graphics. You also have to consider the age of the T60, these machines are past their prime. Yeah my experience is that software acceleration works better with intel integr...
by kfzhu1229
Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:51 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
Topic: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently
Replies: 10
Views: 2300

Re: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently

That said I know for a fact that if you do the software rendering override option, even on a GMA 950 with a Core 2 duo T7200 it will actually start doing 720p youtube videos perfectly fine, with GMA 950 taking some small loads while the T7200 taking the rest.
by kfzhu1229
Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:43 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
Topic: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently
Replies: 10
Views: 2300

Re: Extreme lagging on T60 while browsing and watching Youtube recently

I started noticing maybe a couple of months ago, that my Thinkpad T60 (2 GHz CPU, Ati X1400, 3GB RAM) that has been serving my computing needs well in the last 7 years, started to experience extremely severe slowdowns, and lagging while browsing the internet. Also Youtube up until recently has been...
by kfzhu1229
Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:46 am
Forum: ThinkPad T20-T23 & T30 Series. NOT for T25-Retro
Topic: T21 with 600Mhz PIIIe cpu?
Replies: 24
Views: 23007

Re: T21 with 600Mhz PIIIe cpu?

So i need to revive this thread a little bit. In my quest to source any form of replacement battery for the T21-23 range, i have struck nil. I have browsed around in rather many shops across the globe (even those that say that they have them in stock) and placed orders, only to be (best case) met b...
by kfzhu1229
Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:52 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T400/T410/T420 and T500/T510/T520 Series
Topic: T520 Discrete Graphics No Longer Work
Replies: 6
Views: 1529

Re: T520 Discrete Graphics No Longer Work

Thanks for this suggestion. I booted into Optimus on Win10 without problems. The Device Manager showed NVS4200M in video along with Intel. It marked the NVS as functioning properly. I disabled the Intel and was able to use my TV as the display monitor NVS4200M through the displayport. Success! But ...
by kfzhu1229
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:34 pm
Forum: Marketplace - Forum Members only
Topic: WTB: T601f (Frankenpad)/HV150UX2-100/T61
Replies: 11
Views: 4789

Re: WTB: T601f (Frankenpad)/HV150UX2-100/T61

I am very interested in your offer for the motherboards that were produced after the production of T61 has ended. Please DM me. Do you only offer NVS140m or also FX570m? Please send me also a price for your X9000 CPU. If you are interested in FSB modding your T61 motherboard, I also just got a Core...
by kfzhu1229
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T400/T410/T420 and T500/T510/T520 Series
Topic: T420 - Quad Core CPU and BIOS upgrade (or downgrade)
Replies: 3
Views: 5899

Re: T420 - Quad Core CPU and BIOS upgrade (or downgrade)

Hello all :) I still have my old trusty T420 that i love and i don't plan to get rid of it even if for everyday use i have P53. At the moment i have 1.52 official BIOS installed. I replaced my old CPU with i7-2860QM but it looks like BIOS is allowing me to either have 4 cores or multithreading, not...
by kfzhu1229
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:19 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T400/T410/T420 and T500/T510/T520 Series
Topic: T520 Discrete Graphics No Longer Work
Replies: 6
Views: 1529

Re: T520 Discrete Graphics No Longer Work

My T520's DGPU (NVS4200M) has simply stopped working altogether. Integrated (Mesa Intel 300) graphics work fine. The Laptop is not overheating. When I set the display in BIOS to Discrete, the screen stays dark after making an OS selection in the Grub Menu menu. This is the case whether I try to boo...
by kfzhu1229
Mon Dec 11, 2023 5:57 pm
Forum: ThinkPad R, A, G and Z Series
Topic: ThinkPad A22m battery recondioning after battery rebuild
Replies: 0
Views: 2340

ThinkPad A22m battery recondioning after battery rebuild

So currently I have a blink of death ThinkPad A21m and a fully working and pristine 15" A22m after replacing its original SXGA+ screen (vertical lines) with an identical one (ITSX93C). I took the dying battery from the A21m and rebuilt it with spare 6 cells from a 6 months old aftermarket Pavilion/C...
by kfzhu1229
Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: Marketplace - Forum Members only
Topic: Looking for 8GB DDR2 X2 4GB
Replies: 7
Views: 1938

Re: Looking for 8GB DDR2 X2 4GB

The graphics card is removable in the XPS. The M1730 is a good machine, for all I am using it for. I completely took apart the entire laptop to clean it and add new thermal paste to the CPU and GPU and even regreased the hinges. When I got it, it was hard to open and was almost ready to brake/crack...
by kfzhu1229
Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:05 pm
Forum: Marketplace - Forum Members only
Topic: Looking for 8GB DDR2 X2 4GB
Replies: 7
Views: 1938

Re: Looking for 8GB DDR2 X2 4GB

I am looking for x2 4GB sticks for my Dell XPS M1730 (PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM SODIMM) It says it supports 8GB max. I only have 2GB right now and want to max it out. This is a 2009 gaming laptop. I am playing fallout New vegas on Med settings. It is fine but keeps crashing everything 20min to 45min. I t...
by kfzhu1229
Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:52 pm
Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
Topic: Bluetooth Question
Replies: 8
Views: 14741

Re: Bluetooth Question

Maybe you can put an adapter like this in one of the minipcie ports and insert the dongle inside the laptop. Yes it's possible but you also gotta be careful about the placement. If you just naively put it in you may get almost zero signal reception if there is either a metal shield above it or plas...
by kfzhu1229
Sat Nov 18, 2023 12:40 am
Forum: ThinkPad T430-T490 / T530-T590 Series
Topic: ThinkPad T430 - white screen on boot-up
Replies: 15
Views: 3341

Re: ThinkPad T430 - white screen on boot-up

Yes, I would assume/expect that the display info would show that the internal and external monitors are supposedly showing the same thing. That's what I have set up, essentially using the external monitor to replicate and reveal what ought to be on the internal screen which of course is completely ...
by kfzhu1229
Sat Nov 18, 2023 12:34 am
Forum: ThinkPad T40/T41/T42/T43 Series
Topic: T43 shuts down 15 minutes into XP install
Replies: 38
Views: 10651

Re: T43 shuts down 15 minutes into XP install

It seems like it. The SB gets hotter than the GPU and i was thinking of attaching a Cooper Pipe to it and the Pipe to the heatsink. What do You think? Again I just routed the copper pipes to the PCMCIA cage. on my T43p the GPU gets extra hot too and the GPU end up desoldering itself instead (screen...

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