Flash the modified BIOS (instructions in step 1 b) in this post ) and solder the purple connection on this image: http://abload.de/img/fsb200k8qj4.jpg (225,73 kb image). I think that this should be sufficient but if it does not work, then I suggest that you also do step 2 in this post and try again...

Hi, Say got a 14.1" widescreen T61 with nvidia GPU motherboard: The information is so overwelming, how exactly do one do the steps to modify the board to take P9600 but run processor at 800fsb for ultra low power use? Cheers, Thinkpadcollection What you want to do is simple, but just re-inventing t...

I bought a T500 and T400 over a year ago because they were cheap, sturdy, and powerful enough. I got an X61 that turned out to be a piece of useless junk and is in pieces now, a replacement X61 which works fine, and a T60 I am in the process of upgrading the screen of, if I can get around to fixing ...

That Western Digital Black^2 hard drive does not use port multiplication. It uses proprietary drivers to allow the OS to communicate with each part of the drive separately. Without the drivers, only the SSD portion is accessible.

Very cool, thanks for posting that. For mechanical hard drives there is very little public information available, but for over a year the cloud backup company Blackblaze has posted a lot about it on their blog. Of course they only use desktop hard drives and not laptop hard drives, but the informati...

Recently I've noticed that the second highest clocked Pentium M is really cheap on eBay. Much cheaper than it was four years ago. You can get one for $5.40 from China. The Pentium M 780 is a lot cheaper now too, at $16.97 , again from China. Small change compared to the $100+ that sellers wanted fo...

I notice problems with some large? hard disk. my W500 in OEM spec have hitachi 7k500 320GB but I swap this to 7K750 750 GB and with this specification driver crash system. Turbo memory generally work but, UAC stop working and system ask me for everything what I try open. sample? proporties my compu...

I set up a friend with a T400. I had a spare 2GB turbo memory module, so I figured "why not" and installed it. Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium, and zero problems with the drivers for it I got from the Intel website.

The T520 or W520 is really the sweet spot right now. Unless you are a gamer, their performance isn't much less than current models, and their price is like buying a cheap new laptop. Plus, if cloud computing becomes more of a reality, we'll be sending our spreadsheets and MATLAB programs off to a 10...

I got my 'inspiration' from the 9th picture IBM Thinkpad T6 series (B) in this Chinese blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6d7abe3d0100n1yz.html I can't ready any of it, but the pics say enough. Your connection points are different from those (and mine), but they seem to also work. That link is in...

Don't worry. Your T420 has the 90w power adapter and the X61 came with the 65w power adapter. Unless your system is using more power than the 65w adapter can deliver, they can be used interchangeably. I do it all the time.

And please post picture of resoldered LVDS connector. First attempt: http://s1179.photobucket.com/user/gymleader_ed/media/leduxga1_zpsogkn6s4f.jpg.html The second panel looks similarly done. Just got done removing it and re-trying: http://s1179.photobucket.com/user/gymleader_ed/media/leduxga_zpsb70...

I bought a 15" XGA T60 last year but it has mostly been collecting dust while I use my T500 and X61. A few weeks ago I ordered one of these UXGA LED screens just to try it out. I know it was a lot of money and there were modifications needed, but I figured why not? I modified the inverter to connect...

I don't have a T61, but I was reading el-sahef's posts in this thread about modifying the SPD timings. Last night I tried modifying some SPD settings with my X61 and found most of my DDR2 memory to be locked. Well today I read up a bit more about it and tried a solution. I know that doing this is ve...

I was looking on here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/how-to-flash-ram-spd-when-it-seems-to-be-read-only.408349/ The OP was trying to figure out how to unlock the SPD EEPROM of locked modules. Some are unlocked, which allow you to use software like SPDTool or Thaiphoon Burner to change any ...

Go for Linux Mint with Xfce desktop environment. Should have all you need, look decent and be fast on that hardware. I was trying the different flavors of Linux Mint on my X61 with T7100 and 3GB of RAM, and I really don't like Xfce. I was drawn to its minimalism and supposedly increased speed on ol...

lead_org wrote:Someone will soon grant your wish for a ThinkPad with 7 rows keyboard, 4:3 screen, latches, thinklight and blue enter key.

Can you please stop this nonsense? It is getting really old.

I think Windows 8 is fine, but then again I'm someone who thought Vista was a big improvement over XP except in battery life on a laptop. You can tell that Windows 8 is a technologically superior product. However, there are so many little annoyances here and there where things were simplified, compr...

Hello! I calibrated my display. before https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30741962/11.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30741962/22.png after https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30741962/111.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30741962/222.png The result was not very good. Display bright...

but I doubt that Lenovo allowed that in the BIOS. Pretty sure it's the CPU and/or chipset that prevent ECC. BIOS support would only be a factor if those allowed it. I didn't mean that the error correcting could work, just that the memory could. I've heard of some desktop configurations that do not ...

Click on the link that you posted and enter your system where it says "Will it work with my system? Select your system to see if this part is compatible." It says that it is incompatible. :P It is ok to try ECC memory in an X301. It won't break anything, only beep at you if there is a problem. It mi...

What the 1.35 V specification in DDR3L means is that it may run at 1.35 V, not that it does or needs to. DDR3 came out quite a while ago as far as computer memory is concerned. Just like with processors, graphics cores, and chipsets, the manufacturing process has steadily improved, getting smaller a...

I've played with a couple of different ones, but in the end i7 640M will go in there, I just haven't bought it yet. I noticed your wanted ad on NBR. This looks like your best shot: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i7-640M-Dual-Core-2-8GHz-TURBO-4MB-2-5GT-s-SLBTN-rPGA988a-2211-/311307391249?pt=LH_...

谢谢 Qing. I'm looking to buy this one what do you think? http://www.ebay.com/itm/220786275299?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Shanghai. Nice city. I've been there a few times. 不用谢。 If they say it's for the T500 then it really should work. This is what I personally buy: htt...

I recommend buying the newest memory you can. I have had memory compatibility issues with older sticks, but everything has worked flawlessly with newer sticks. DDR3L-1333 is the current cheapo memory, and I think it is pretty safe. I get the distinct feeling that the T400 and T500 simply ignore the ...

If you use a wireless mouse, you can attach the dongle internally with that same USB card.

That picture link is broken, but I found this:

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/pics/binning.jpg

That setup looks like you really know what you are doing.

First thing I do with every new PC is to format HDD, get rid of the recovery partition and install a new OS from scratch. On a new laptop I would accept a Lenovo System Update (in a more user friendly variant) preinstalled. Nothing else :) I'm curious... would you be willing to pay more for such a ...

I suspect one major reason certain people still like 4:3 more than all other ratios is that they prefer relatively low pixel densities, say ~130 DPI. To get at least 1050 pixel rows at close to this pixel density on a widescreen, we would be looking at 15.4" 1680x1050 (128.65 DPI), 17.0" 1920x1200 ...

If your T61p fails, just buy a T500 motherboard to replace it. Selling the 2x4GB DDR2 would pay for the new motherboard and new 2x4GB DDR3.