Hi and thanks for the reply. You are right but it does have most of the symptoms: When it did boot it would freeze on the login screen after typing a bit, then unfreeze 30sec later It won't boot to an external display It used to work once in a while and turn off lcd when moved (this was 3 years ago)...

Trying to repair my old t42, display stays blank when turning on. Probably the gpu issue.

If you don't have any programs that might not work if you uninstall them for whatever reason, i think you should reinstall your OS

I have a PCDRWIN in the IBMTOOLS folder that I took from my t42 recovery partition, is that what you are looking for?

Thanks for the speedy reply!
i have another question
what's you opinion about quad core processor+ t520 heatsink?

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