I have an X230 I bought off Ebay back in 2020/2021 which was working fine till recently. However the dusty environment in India has taken a toll on it's cooling and I now need to take it apart, and clean and re-paste the heat-sink. While it's all taken apart, I would like to fix the broken corners o...

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 experience you need and build a battery that is 100% safe. I hope you have a spot welder and good quality battery cells as for your first experiment you really have no room fo...

Question: does your T420 have a dead or missing main battery and a 65 watt charger? Dead Battery, 90W power brick. 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 w...

I've had an old BIOS locked T420 with an i5-2520M (off of ebay) that the kids were using for their virtual classes, off a 90W Power supply. Last year it's battery died, and last month it's CMOS battery died, so the BIOS setting got reset to their defaults. When I opened it to replace the CR2032 in i...

Before I start, let me describe the lid, to explain my labeling: The clamshell lid is made up of a large metal rectangle on top of which a narrow plastic rectangle is attached. The plastic rectangle contains all the antennae, which would work much worse if the complete lid was metal. The plastic is ...

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?

I can try and give you pics of the the 44+ that I opened, destructively, if you think that'll help with opening the battery packs.

Lenovo US is running quite a nice sale, especially if you're a T480 owner: I just got a replacement keyboard for myself for 18 USD, The Ultradock is at 40 USD (just the dock, no power supply) and I'm tempted to buy it just at it's low price, but I'd see no use on it, so... For ref: https://pcsupport...

- I've tried to disassemble a battery previously, but it came apart as a broken mess, definitely not something that could be put together again. - Anyone have a dead x220 battery that they would be able to disassemble using the process shown in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSWTM6jePEY which shows...

Hi all, My X230 has been behaving itself pretty well since I got it mid 2019 (secondhand in india, from a bulk secondhand vendor). It's been my daily driver for work, and has been behaving itself pretty well, except for an issue last year where it's screen (which I had replaced when I got it to a tf...

I'm looking to cannibalize the trackpoint components out of a ThinkPad Keyboard into my own small DIY travel KB, to get rid of the mouse from my travel kit. Anyone have a keyboard that's physically broken, but electrically OK that I can buy off them (or pay for shipping, for your generous giveaway)?

I will advice against buying a slice battery now. I got myself a NOS one from one of the members of the forum, that worked beautifully, for about 3 months, before it started to experience a catastrophic reduction in the capacity. As of now, any slice you buy will be 10 years old or more, and will no...

I can give you pics of the internals of a 6 cell x230 battery if you want. I'd opened one to see if it could be taken apart non-destructively, but it isn't possible to do that.

I'm looking for a replacement LVDS display cable for the x220 with FRU 04W1775 (as per HMM) for my x220, with LCD LP125WH2(SLxB1). Any one got a spare or a link to a reasonably priced one? Google spat a lot of insanely priced results, or inaccessible results from AliExpress (it's not accessible from...

When I got my first x230, I went ahead and replaced its LCD (model no. LP125WH2-SLB3 ) with a better one as listed by RBS here . The old panel has been lying around unused since then. Recently I ended up looking for way to make a cheap HDMI display from it(for a portable RasPi cluster), so I thought...

check this thread in the marketplace sub-forum - viewtopic.php?f=11&t=128170

As luck would have it, I just received a pair of dead Lenovo 44+s with the express purpose of opening one to replace the cells : one to destructively open to learn the process, and another one to actually open in a manner that doesn't damage it, after learning from the first one. I took apart the fi...

recovery set repository in the market place section:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=128170

I see you have accumulated atleast 2 of the 4 cell batteries. Can you take one apart and re-cell it and then start up the battery (there seems to be some short-curcuit like trick to resetting the fail switch on the battery controller board)? If one works, then you're good to re-cell the others corre...

would you liveboot off a Linux USB and check what output `tlp-stat -b` gives? From a investigative perspective, I find that linux, given it's background, is usually the best option to dig into such issues.

The damage looks like the one on my X220. :( Tried cyanoacrylate, and it broke too. Might try cyanoacrylate + baking soda when I find the time. After examining this in detail, I figured that this is a structural/design defect. The plastic of the frame does NOT sit flush on top of the VGA port's edg...

Note : I'll be using the first post as a blog and compendium of all the info I come across. I bought a slightly damaged (physically, but not operationally) and not-so-clean i5-3320 X230 off EBay on the cheap (less than 50 USD, shipping included). However, the not-so-clean actually turned out to be ...

I have 2 X230s (my daily driver, which is a year old, and a 2nd one I got off EBAY pretty cheap, but with breaks in the body and lid), and both suffer from a weird issue in the keyboard bezel near the VGA port, right next to the FN key. The top view of the break is as below: My Daily driver: https:/...

Given how easy it is to switch disks in the x230, I suggest you get yourself 3 inexpensive SSDs, one each for linux, win7 and win10. Pop in the one you want to boot from. It is a bit more cumbersome as compared to a boot menu with multiple boot options, but it's a lot less headache in terms of insta...

- I'm glad my writeup helped atleast someone. - My apologies on the reply after you've already solved the issues (I was busy researching something else, x220 keyboard with 1vyrain). - By bios reset , I meant select `Reset to Defaults` in the BIOS options. - The Centrino Wireless-N 2200 actually give...

I am now wishing I had the know-how to design and build a modernized Planar for the x230, just for that screen, but keeping the ability to use the existing ports, slots and peripherals, especially the 19+ slice.

It looks like I didn't do a deep enough search. The problem is actually well documented as the main problem point of the x230! Since 2011!!! I managed to apply a solution for Linux as listed on the archlinux wiki page for the x230 , which fixed the problem, but now I need to go through another bit o...

I've been experimenting with getting the MC7710 to work as automatically on my x230 as possible (using DKMS to build the Sierra drivers), with some build related patches already submitted to Sierra (my work on github , and I probably need to rename the repo). What I was looking to do was to add all ...

<snip/> And in fact, Lenovo appears to be at least trying to fix it, which IBM never bothered with. <snip/> Funny you should say this. It's almost exactly what I felt about IBM when I read this 2011 article about the trackpoint , the main complaint being that the designer and implementer of the tra...

The x230 (which I purchased in mid 2019) is my first daily driver Thinkpad ever. Before that I've mainly used Macbook Pros , a Dell and a Toshiba laptop. After 16 years of Trackpads, I've noticed that the x230 trackpad has a minimum jump distance that is larger than one pixel on the screen. It is a ...

Same for me, I prefer smoothness and less laptop weight then battery power-up time. I'm also running SSD (as on all my laptops including the X61f), but two memory modules (16GB total) and Core i7 and I'd rather stick to standard 65W charger with 3-pole plug. It's still lighter then the 90W or 135W ...