I ran it without the fan, then shut it down. A few hours later it booted up with no problem. No fan error. Then it booted twice again (once yesterday and once this morning) with no fan error. I'm not sure what's going on, except that perhaps it's the fuse, and it's sensitive to specific environment ...

After doing this very intermittently (about 4 or 5 times) in the past 3 months, my trick of holding the power button didn't work. I have been able to circumvent the Fan Error message by pushing the Esc key when it appears, and then the computer boots up. However, the fan doesn't work (I was doubting...

I wanted to add my experience with this. I have been using my X200 for about 1 1/2 years now. Two months ago, I got a "Fan Error" on boot, and it wouldn't start up. I tried removing the battery and running it off the AC adapter, but it didn't work. Finally, I remembered that some issues in Thinkpads...

I upgraded from an X61 to an X200. It's a really nice upgrade. You can put up to 8GB on the X200. Add a fast HD, and it will be nice and fast, much faster than an X60. I got my like-new X200 last year for $150 shipped, and I have it running a triple boot (Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu). These ar...

Lenovo has an utility by the name of System Update which was derived out of the old IBM one. You're definitely better off with their drivers than you'd be with the ones from WU. Personally, I install the very few basic and most-needed drivers/utilities and call it a day, but it's your system to pla...

Hello, I just installed a fresh Windows 7 OEM on one of my Thinkpad X200 partitions. To install the drivers, should I just fire up Windows Update, or should I use a driver matrix from Lenovo and install manually? Back in the IBM days, around 10 years ago or so, there was this Software Installer prog...

for a decent faraday cage try copper window screen material.. let me know how it works out.. and i am NOT mocking.. if such a thing were to be weaponized (EMP generator or the like) it'll probably be the chinese or russians who do it.. meanwhile the iranians will just lob a bomb into orbit and take...

Started off w/ X20, then X21, now I am writing on an X24. I really do like it, my hinges are getting loose, but i am lazy and don't always close the lid when I pick it up to move. Not a gamer, so it still works plenty good for me. Biggest problem is stupid FireFox memory leak bogs it down badly. To...

RealBlackStuff wrote:Check this out for old/new development: new T50 motherboards with i3 CPU, to be put in a T43/p
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=110787

This is nice! If that mobo is reliable, I will need to get a mint T43 body in eBay to give it a try.

Yes, the 240Z (I had a 240X) are very nice machines, small form factor, very powerful for the time, and still usable. I used mine up until 2 years ago for general purpose (web browsing, email, etc), as well as a cheap on-vehicle GPS before dedicated GPS devices were really affordable. The 240X I had...

Thank you for your input, gentlemen. Ray, first of, your disclaimer at the bottom is good stuff! :) Yes, it seems that grounding would seem to provide more protection, or at the worst, it probably wouldn't hurt. The idea about soldering a few printed circuit boards is quite interesting, although Im ...

Good luck with that! Just wondering, are you shooting with a wide angle to give you a better chance of catching something? I'm going out tomorrow with my wife to a peak nearby where we live. Not sure if it will be too late though. They say Perseids were crossing nearby from August 11 to August 13. W...

Thanks! I am bookmarking the topic so I can refer to it when needed! Good job! :thumbs-UP: Thank you, I hope it helps you in the future. I'm not sure why this is not more clearly documented, but perhaps not too many people running Linux (or Windows for that matter) pay attention to their HD tempera...

Let us know how this goes. I have used Linux on-and-off the last couple of years. My experience is that the hard drive area becomes very warm when using Linux compared to Windows. Perhaps power management needs to be tweaked in Linux? Hi emeraldgirl08, I figured out what was going on. You can read ...

Another August... time again to re-visit this thread.... Good conditions for viewing tonight. Moon has set and there's none of the typical summertime fog (yet) rolling over the Santa Cruz Mountains. Hope to set up my tripod again in a few hours and see if I can get some more pictures. Perseus is in...

Quick update: I did some research, and the reading i was using (from the IBM ACPI interface) is much higher than the SMART reading the HDD reports. So I think the IBM ACPI data might be unreliable regarding HD temperatures. I started this other thread in the Linux section: http://forum.thinkpads.com...

I am getting a huge discrepancy between the data for my HD temperature reported by IBM ACPI and the SMART data provided by the hard drive itself. The HDD temperature reported by the IBM ACPI interface, is it just "somewhere nearby the hard drive"? That would explain some difference, but it is too bi...

Let us know how this goes. I have used Linux on-and-off the last couple of years. My experience is that the hard drive area becomes very warm when using Linux compared to Windows. Perhaps power management needs to be tweaked in Linux? Thank you for pointing that out, emeraldgirl08. I know in genera...

Since I still had lying around the original HD this X61 came with, which has a Windows 7 installation, I popped it in, installed SpeedFan, and tried to figure out how hot it would get. It turns out that it runs about 12C cooler than the other one in Ubuntu 12.04. Not sure it if is the HD itself or t...

Even though I'm absolutely broke at the moment, I just donated slightly (just slightly) above the 2 cents that GomJabbar mentioned. As a humble way to say thank you for the best place for Thinkpad discussion (and many other topics actually) in the Internet.

I didn't come up with anything in a search of the forum. Recently I've been obsessing that a rogue solar flare will hit us and cause enough disruptions to damage electronic equipment like our beloved Thinkpads. The one way to protect electronic equipment like this from such an event (or from somethi...

Windows XP operates correctly. Ubuntu has big problems with the screen. The top half of the screen is OK, the bottom half is a jaggy blurry mess. The mouse pointer leaves a trail behind it that never goes away, so it appears that there are video driver issues. I can get to a command prompt and oper...

A couple of times I've run into sellers that, no matter how I explain the situation, they adamantly say that "I know it's a T23 because that's what's on the keyboard!" :banghead: That's so true... :D My remaining X24, which I bought in the spring of 2005 and is still in great condition, says X22 on...

Great job, as mentioned before, that laptop skin looks quite luxurious.

You need to be more specific, like: WD [model]/320GB/5400rpm/4MB cache. I use an X61s with 32GB SSD (only for traveling) and an Intel 6200 wifi card. No heat problems at all. Thank you, RBS. My drive information is Western Digital (WDC WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0)/320GB/5400rpm/8MB cache. Glad to know you h...

Hi, Sorry for the late replay to your message. I am replying in the forum as well for the benefit of others. I just tried to play all of your clips, and while they do play (I'm using mplayer on Ubuntu Linux), the video stream doesn't seem to be playing at full speed. Another thing to point out is th...

Just to add to the excellent points, for emphasis, that the X6x machines run hot (specifically the hard drive, which is what I care the most about). The X200 is, in my experience, much cooler.

I just started a thread about this: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111022

I particularly care about HD temperatures, because high temperatures are particularly damaging to hard drives (at least non-flash drives), and hard drive failure can mean data loss. My X61 HD reaches a temperature of close to 60C while idling. If the CPU is working hard (but the HD is idling), then ...

OK, thank you for confirming it's actually a tricky operation. I'll order a CMOS battery and use your trick when I connect it.

Good thinking about that disclaimer too. There's no warranty that what you did would work in other system, so "caveat emptor" might be a good strategy in this case.

CMOS batteries are available by the gazillions on eBay from about $1.80 onwards. T23 has the same battery as T30/T4x/R5x/T6x They last on average 5 years or more. Just check for "CMOS battery IBM T23" [or substitute T23 with any of the above]. Thank you, I'll do that. I remember the CMOS battery on...