RealBlackStuff wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:40 am

Sorry, you got that all wrong.
Read my website: http://theboardroom.info/sata_mods.html for the correct T43/R52 SATA explanation.
And T43/R52 have NO problems with recovery under either PATA/IDE or SATA.

OK, I stand corrected

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We had similar experience (we used a non-OEM brand instead of receller), but here's our cent: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=123658&p=799649&hilit=insult+to+injury#p799649 Summary of above (previous) posting: We have a T410 laptop, and from our experience we will stick with officia...

1. Oh, one more thing, do get the 65W AC Adapter (USB Type C). ie: DO NOT get the 45W AC Adapter; the savings are minimal and it would greatly increase your notebook charging time. 2. If and when you do get your hands on a shiny new X1 Carbon (5th Gen), we would appreciate your hands-on feedback aft...

There was a similar discussion regarding hardware encrypted SSD and OPAL encryption here: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=123463 We note that your SSD is an original OEM OPAL 2.0 compliant SSD and using Win10 Professional 64-bit, which in theory should support hardware encrypted SSD...

There were recent similar discussions here: 1. X1 Carbon (5th gen, 2017) : 8gb Ram or 16gb Ram , i5 or i7 https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=123657 2. In the Market for a X1C https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=123694 - - - - - - - - - Whilst we don't have a X1 Carbon (5th...

One can dedicate an old T42, paired with Port Replicator II and permanently connected to LCD projector,
specialised in showing Power Point Slide presentations from different guest speakers (stored on their own USB thumbdrives).

This is especially useful in church & charity settings!

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Lenovo Settings (for Windows 10) http://www3.lenovo.com/se/sv/accessories/software/apps/settings Lenovo now has a new utility in Win10 Windows Store for free that allows you to control threshold settings for the charging your battery. eg: charge when below 45%, stop charging at 55%. Or change your ...

Sorry for coming to the party so late! We are here to share with you our very similar experience, that from your software usage profile you may need 16 GB RAM, which I believe your T500 unfortunately does not support. 1. We used very similar software on our X1 Carbon Generation 3 (8 GB RAM, i7-5600U...

Think OP already said that he had already tried "reset from the bottom", which I believe is done by pushing a sharp pin through the hole at the bottom of the laptop when turned upside down. https://support.lenovo.com/hk/en/solutions/pd027828 Comment: ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Type 34xx) = X1 Carbon 1st ge...

[Edit: Added URL Link for Lenovo Settings as below]: Lenovo Settings (for Windows 10) http://www3.lenovo.com/se/sv/accessories/software/apps/settings This is new, and we have confirmed to work with X1 Carbon Gen 3 (X1C3, circa 2015), and Windows 10: Lenovo now has a new utility in Win10 Windows Stor...

Do you have the Product Recover DVD's ?

It might be easier with this method...

==>Does anyone else have X1C4 OneLink+ Dock experience, can you disable charging while docked? 1. Just a clarification, for X1C4 (X1 Carbon 4th Gen, circa 2016), it is actually a OneLink+ Dock. ie: with the "+" at the back. X1C4 can only use OneLink+ Docks. 2. This is because X1C3 (X1 Carbon 3rd Gen...

We bought X1C4 and X1C3 instead. Specifically, we avoided buying the X1C2 (Gen 2, circa 2014) because of these major keyboard usability issues: 1) X1 Carbon Generation (X1C2) had no left, no right, and no scroll buttons on top of the TouchPad. Some ThinkPad users complained that you sometimes accide...

X270 had a very good review (4 stars out of 5), and was praised for its potential almost-24-hours max battery life. However, it did not get the Editor's Choice status. www.pcmag.com/review/352469/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-2017 That honor went to X1 Carbon (Generation 5), which got the Editor's Choic...

Thank you for your update for our collective information;
much appreciated!

This is a wild guess: Try taking out your new RAM stick, and put it back in. Perhaps your new RAM stick is just *barely* touching your motherboard, such what: ~When machine is hot, the metal expands, and your RAM stick makes correct contact with motherboard (RAM "OK"). ~When machine cools off, the m...

X1 3rd gen (X1C3) Hardware Maintenance Manual: http://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/x1_carbon3_hmm_en_sp40g55065.pdf X1 3rd gen (X1C3) User Manual: http://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/x1_carbon3_ug_en.pdf As I myself do not have experience in eye operation (aka swapping LCD monito...

And this is where things may get messy: Thinkpad repair depot may ask you to sign a waiver that Thinkpad would not be responsible for any data loss that might occur.
This is a "Just in case" type of document.

Please confirm that you did do a recent data backup for your X1 laptop?

Hi Nachumama, a big welcome to Thinkpads forum! 1. What model of X1 are you using? One of our Thinkpad's Machine No. is 20BS-CTO1WW, which is a X1 Carbon Generation 3 (circa 2015). Don't worry, just give us as much information as you can; we can figure out the rest! 2. To be quite honest, it sounds ...

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We just use a 2.5" SATA SSD for our T410; our auxiliary slot had been taken up by our WWAN (Mobile Broadband) card. The SSD speed is very good; more than good enough even for serious users demanding much faster speeds than HDD. Our SSD brand even came with 10-year warranty; it would (eventually) bec...

Thank you dr_st for clarifying that T420 had power built-in (ie: T420 had a more advanced iteration of eSATA), as compared to T410. We are daily using our T410, and are using a eSATA backup solution for faster data backup, and this requires an external source of power (which to be quite frank is a p...

Think in layman's terms, the modern Intel CPU are more power efficient than before.

ie: modern Intel CPU does more and draws less power, hence CPU runs much cooler, and battery lasts much longer

We have both the X1C3 (3rd generation, 2015) and X1C4 (4th generation, 2016). X1C3 with i7 X1C3 with i5 X1C4 with i7 All models were non-touch LCD, and all other details were "top spec". ie: maxed out RAM, largest SSD available. We used these to browse the web and to check emails. 1. Battery life. D...

Good news, the X1 Carbon technology is trickling into the other Thinkpad models! For example, we bought a X1 Carbon (3rd gen, 2015) and X250 (circa 2015 also). The X250 had partial carbon chasis to reduce weight. The X250 also had the same laptop case casing material as the X1 Carbon (3rd gen). Both...

There is also this older link here, which we believe all below "Series 3" docking equipment is fully compatible for X230 (and our T410) models: http://www.thinkscopes.com/2012/11/10/thinkpad-series-3-docking-stationsport-replicator In this ThinkScopes (2012) article: 1. Item #1: Series 3 Ultrabase ~...

We have a T410 laptop, and from our experience we will stick with official Lenovo batteries going forward. We once tried a 9-cell non-Lenovo battery (ie: not made by Lenovo), and it died quite quickly. To add insult to injury, our original (older) 6-cell Lenovo battery was still working, long after ...

In all the Thinkpad laptops we have received, we have never checked what brand of LCD was used.

And we were very satisfied with each and every Thinkpads laptop we have received, especially for the LCD screen