Here come a strange question, all because a seller from chinese 3rd party factory, had me wonder if he were telling the truth when he cancelled my...

Hi have an x220T that i would like to try MSATA in?
I know you can on the non tablet X220, seen a video on you tube. Can anyone please confirm that...

I recently did the final big upgrade I had planned for my T430 - installing an i7-3840QM. This was an upgrade I had been somewhat hesitant about,...

Found this on Taobao:

I had no idea this could be done; I wonder how many other models can take this mod besides this and the T480.

Hello everyone! This is the first time I'm on this forum and on any forum.

I have a P52, which I'm quite happy with, but a little worried in terms...

Hi. For sale modded thinkpad x330 with 2k screen.
Include laptop, 2 unit original battery (last 4-5 hours), 8gb ram, 512gb ssd.
$750 usd including...

Hey champs.

For context, I have a pretty rough case of essential tremors. I have not been able to write on a keyboard for the past few years (Well I...

For sale is a Toshiba Libretto U100 working but with some flaws. The machine is a U100-S213 with a Pentium M 753 CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 60GB hard...

Last night my T42p Fan died, I replaced the entire heatsink with the one of a dead T43 I have, and the fan doesn't have much life in it. The heatsink...

Need some professional advice before I could flash with Middleton's BIOS

T61 7661-E64
BIOS version 2.12
32 bit T7300 processor
Win 7 Professional 32...

I installed arch linux and noticed, that when I working with external usb devices such a keyboard it just don't work for 1 sec randomly. But if I...

I see that Levono has announced the Gen 13 version of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (longer battery life in a noticeably lighter package). They state on the...

I have ordered, received, and love my new ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 12): Fast, light, and beautiful. However, there is one very serious problem with...

Hello fellow thinkpadders.

Tempted by a G41 to G50 comparison made by screamer here I'd like to follow up with a Z-thread. Not quite as rare as G50...

Just bored, and interested in what kind of music others like. Love me some goth rock/industrial myself. Have for years. What about you?

I just...

Hello, I have recently accuired an Intel qx9300, I don't have any soldering iron currently and my latest anventures with it hadn't ended like I...

Trackpad and TrackPoint stopped working all of a sudden. Ive tried to update the drivers didn't work, checked if the ribbon cables were secure (they...

Hey folks. Issue with touchpad. Sometimes randomly stops working for second and even seconds. Pure random, can work alright for whole session and...

Hey everyone,

I’m looking at two second-hand ThinkPads and could use some advice on which is the better deal. Here are the options:

Option 1:...

Hello everyone!
I'm looking for a frankenpad, preferably IBM T60-T61 - I found one on ebay (Frankenpad Thinkpad T60 T60p , T61p T61 M/B, 15 LED UXGA...

The old fan in my T42 suddenly stopped spinning. I tried installing a new one, but it also didn't spin, so I checked the socket on the motherboard....

Hello, I have purchased a Intel 5300 WLAN card as it would make an easy upgrade over the previous WLAN card (3945 abg)
There weren't any mentions of...

As the title says, forum's been slow for the past 12 hours or so. Is anyone else affected?

Hi, I'm new to this community. I tried to install Coreboot on my ThinkPad T420 so I could upgrade to an Ivy Bridge i7.

I read about the process,...

Link to video here:

JLC3DP reached out to him and offered to 3D print his 701C chassis design for free if he features them in a video. The metal 3D...

hi all!!

i saw a video a while back about turning laptop monitors into computer monitors. to do that, though, i require a display connector board...

I was trying to setup up a triple display with T430, just read however the NVidia graphics card is needed which I don't have right?

inxi -Fxxxzr...

There's a 3D printed base with some logic to turn it into a regular USB keyboard, are there any for T6x keyboard assemblies? I have a bunch of NMB...

Hi guys, i'm selling my Thinkpad W520 because i don't use it very much.

The main characteristics are:

15.6 TFT display with 1920x1080 (FHD)...

I have leftover parts for free. Includes the following:

3x 16v 4.5A AC adapters for the T40 series systems
2x 6 cell T40 series batteries that seem...

I LOVE my T530. Decided to try the mSATA install for the OS.

The Samsung 850 EVO 250Gb went in without a glitch. Cloned the old HD to it (in the...

Excuse me for revive an old topic, if anyone has an hint on where to find these Ultrabay like caddy for HDD for T61 i will be very grateful (at a...

Hi I'm looking for compatible Ram modules for my L540 i5 4200m 20AUA0F4JP. I would prefer 2x8Gb.

Right now it has Samsung M471B5173DB0-YK0 4Gb...

Temp comparison for 35 W CPU swap of a T420. I did the analysis of which CPU, debating jumping to 45W or coreboot. I did not see many before and...

I have a T400 6473-PUG and I'm planning to upgrade the CPU. Currently it has a Intel® Core™2 Duo P8400 2,26 GHz and I want suggestions on a new CPU.

Hello,
I was wondering if a M.2 NVME (type b) would work in any of the slots on the T400 motherboard.

Please let me know.

The slots are mini pcie,...

I have a P51S and a 40A2  Ultradock. Without getting into details, there are issues with DP and HDMI connected to the dock.

So here is what I would...

Hello All. I got a W520 and I have a few queries regarding the same:

1) I am trying to get this Windows 11 on W520. Being a decade old machine, the...

I've always avoided STN/FSTN screens because of their limitations. But for some older laptops, there simply aren't TFT replacements available, so I...

Hi, my L540 Synaptics clickpad drives me crazy in Windows 10(Laptop came with it on 500Gb HDD) I'm in the process of moving to my Linux Mint 20.2...

Basically I wanted to apply some new thermal paste, when I was unscrewing the heatsink I broke one of the screws near the CPU so I gave up.

I also...

So I'm planning on fixing up an old ThinkPad X41 that I've had in my collection for the longest time (all it needs is a new internal disk drive, and...

Everything I have seen states the max ram is 1.5GB. Has anyone tried and confirmed installing 2GB or more and the BIOS does see it?

Yesterday I noticed that the trackpad on my work Thinkpad 25 is warped - the left corner sunk, and the right corner raised and protruding above the...