Dunno about 1.8" But I got a 2.5" samsung spinwrite drive
and was blown away at the performance of it .
Cost about $50 new on Ebay. Installed it in a T42 and
installed Win7 in about 15 minutes. Is a great performer.

Thought I would answer this myself as I solved it. Had to open
the thing and replace the LCD screen. Got it from Ebay for
$23 . Now box is working great.

When will avatar functionality return if ever ?

Got the harryc driver installed and it's working like a charm. Thanks guys!! you ROCK!!
Thanks for helping an old Unix weenie out

I go to the harryc driver post http://mysite.verizon.net/hjc56/files/ati_7500.zip
and it says locked and wont let me get the bloody
thing. How do I get around that ?
Thanks.

:oops: Spoke too soon. Evidently got the wrong driver and it blue screened on me. Dang. Went to some other sites and they had no .inf file in the drivers zip file. Any help appreciated. I been riding this dead horse for a long time. (t42/160g HDD/2G ram/WIN7) just installed 7 Works good except for t...

Thanks for the links. Downloaded and installed one from one of the
links. Works pretty good

Hi all. Just loaded Windows7 on my T42 laptop. Works really well except theres no Radeon 7500 vidio driver available for it. Anyone got a clue about this ? I am quite happy with the performance of the box running Win7 with 160gb samsung drive in it. Loaded windows in 15 minutes. I thought something ...

I can confirm that (non-Mobility) FireGL T2 driver on Windows 7 DOES work on T41p/T42p as I installed Win7 on my T41p yesterday and manually chose to install FireGL T2 driver. After WEI assessment Aero kicked in ok and video performance was very good: 3,2 and 3,4 respectively. I made some "before/a...

Ok I found it however using the 9000 driver BSOD's on me. I guess it's trial and
boom. I will keep poking at it . Got nothing to lose at this point

The Radeon 9000 and (non-mobility) 7500 drivers should be built in to Win 7 (they are in Vista). But it's rather convoluted to get to them - they don't appear on the standard list of drivers in the hardware wizard - you need to uncheck a box for "compatible hardware only" (or words to that effect) ...

Would be cool if you could send that. I think I got it before and used it when
I was running Vista on this crate. Was a while ago would be nice to get
this thing working again w Win7

Subject says it all. Casting about for a windows 7 video driver for
this dinosaur . Machine is really snappy with win7 but I need a a better
driver to stop BSOD's . Anyone got a clue? I don't unfortunately. Tried
to get catalyst driver but the driver I got is a bit flaky.

Uninstall your video driver in Device Manager. Reboot the system and it will say "new hardware found" - you will go to the new hardware installation wizard. Alternatively, go to control panel and select "install new hardware". You must uncheck the box "compatible hardware only" option during driver...

You must uncheck the box "compatible hardware only" during driver installation (when looking for the ATI drivers native to Vista). After this the ATI GPU drivers are visible (both the 9000 and the 7500). Installing the Radeon 9000 vs the Radeon 7500 driver improved the Vista business graphics score...

Thats what I think I had . However, I cannot find the ati 9000 vista driver. Can you post the url to it?

Hi All . some time ago I at a t42 the the GPU in the subject line. I found s post in the T42 hardware section that had a url for a radeon 9000 driver that did work pretty will on this box. However , the hard drive in this box suffered a bad shock and died. I replaced the drive and got the machine ba...

Thought I would update this issue as theres a suboptimal workaround that kinda makes it stable. Going into BIOS and disabling speed step, it (the lappy) works much better. Of course it only works at 50% it seems but 50% and stable > 100% and flakey. Found this googling around for others having this ...

Hello All. Any have any experience with the above ? This is a dual core T62p laptop with wide display running Vista pro. I did the windows update dance and after the nvidia driver install from Ms update, the machine became very unstable. (BSOD restart) . I had to disable the updated driver to make t...

Generally a 8611 error indicates a problem with the keyboard; specifically, the trackpoint control. Easiest way to fix the problem would be to replace the keyboard/keyboard bezel assembly with a known good unit. You should use the Hardware Maintenance Manual to do this: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/su...

Is anyone familiar with this error code on a 600x? The docs I have say
this means

8611: System bus
error–I/F between 8042
and IPDC. anyone fixed this type of thing ?

Thanks.

Hi all . I have a T23 laptop where the fan shuts down after 1 minute no matter what. I have checked all inductors etc And all appear good. (no loose solder etc.) System runs ok until the fan shuts off . Then it shuts down I would guess from overheat. Is it possible for a CPU fan to just bite it? or ...

Is there a way to get DVI output from a T61P? I just got hold of one through my employer. Even with the wide screen it's hard on these old eyes :( . I have a DVI wide screen monitor and would like to use it. I know you can't have everything. (where would you put it? ). Anyone got an idea on this? Th...

I have a T42 / 2373 laptop that has been a real workhorse machine and has worked great for about 2 years. Lately the LCD screen now is showing a few (about 10) verticle white lines in the center of the LCD screen when booted. External monitor works fine. Display is very crisp and bright except for t...

Deal alert !

512mb SODIM works in T23 (drop in no probs)

Buy It Now price: US $16.94

Seller is smilentango on ebay which I am doing now

512MB PC133 SODIMM 144PIN SDRAM MEMORY

This chip worked right out of the box.