Hey Everybody, Typing this from my brand new (used) ThinkPad T61. Flashing, Hardware upgrade, and OS install went along without a hitch. Thanks to everyone who provided help. I'm now running LinuxMint XFCE 18 just fine, other than not knowing how to do too much in Linux yet. Still Mint is fairly int...

Wow, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the overwhelming response to this given what forum I'm on. I've got some questions about the process of doing this, now that my laptop has shipped and is on its way. The first is order of operations. If I'm going to flash bios, add hardware, and install a new...

Thanks for the help. I looked at Middleton BIOS, and I'm a little bit leery of it. It seems that the the biggest bonus to using it would be SATAII, which as you said would benefit an SSD, but i'm not planning on putting one in this machine as the reason I am getting it is to be as cheap as possible....

Hey all, First post on these forums. I just bought a T61 off ebay for $50. Its a 2.0 Ghz (T7300 I would guess), 2 GB memory, and 160 GB HDD. I have a couple of questions about setting up my new system. The first is that I have an old Dell XPS Studio 1555 with a broken screen. It has a 500 GB Harddri...