which part is the upper lid? Is it part of the palm rest or are you refering to the screen housing?

I have a few questions. A few weeks back, my T23 decided to take a crap. It was a 1.2ghz that I loaded up with an 80 gig drive and 768mb ram. The thing is, I have the one with the 1400x1050 screen. I'm currently bidding on this on eBay http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-Thinkpad-T23-Laptop-Motherboard-1000-Mhz-...

Sorry for bumping this but I had a similar idea. Searching around on eBay, there are assembled bottom portions of T30's for sale. My T23 recently took a dive and won't power up anymore. Was thinking of putting in a T30 motherboard in the T23 enclosure but aparantly that won't work according to this ...