I tried my original install of XP on the SSD, and well F me. It worked, no issues at all. No idea what was going on. I've installed XP like two dozen times over the last couple of days screwing around with it, and in the end? it's working. Got drivers from this site, and doing updates via legacy upd...

So just to update this, I threw windows 10 on a disk (32 bit) and it didn't load, just gave me a crazy broken pixel screen. So I tried a 32bit version of 7, and... it installed and didn't give me any of the issues I had with XP. but I have no drivers for windows 7, so no wifi/sound/poor mouse perfor...

I tried the original HDD, as well as a ide to sata SSD adapter, and got the same results, I'll have to make a video probably to show it, but basically I don't have permissions to do anything. Click on a driver install, no permissions, try to open control panel, no permissions, and I know it's not th...

Hundreds packed away? I thought I was bad just owning a half dozen or more different thinkpads. (my daily is a T25).

So I opened my NIB x31, went to install windows xp, and kept running into issue after issue, finally got it installed and I literally cannot do anything, can't install drivers, access control panel, look at the system information, nothing. On my video somebody pointed out this screen: https://i.redd...

Well I opened it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE5dqZE9II8

mikemex wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 17, 2022 6:43 pm

Open it up. Life is so short...

P. S. Don't forget to make a video review of it.

Oh I opened it, and I am 100% making a video. It will be up on my channel later tonight/early tomorrow.

Have an x280, was working fine, but then it started to not shut down when I clicked on start>power>shut down. so I decided to try to just do a reinstall of the OS (nothing important on the laptop), and it took.. like two full days, now it's super slow, still won't power down when I try to shut it do...

I bought and probably over paid for an x31 new in box. Security seals intact.

I WANT to open it, but how much is it worth (regardless of what I paid for it, and how much damage am I doing by opening the box…

https://i.redd.it/3rjj6cxsii6a1.jpg