Any cool mods for the t series?

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thinkpadz · #1 Post by **thinkpadz** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:57 pm

Anyone care to share any mods they've done to their t-series thinkpad.

pphilipko · #2 Post by **pphilipko** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:34 pm

You could always stick a boot through the screen and sell it on Ebay as a special and rare piece of art.

holr · #3 Post by **holr** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:27 am

hmm lol @ pphilipko !

I think most people are quite happy with their thinkpads that they dont need to do any modifications. The only "mod" i have is using the ati tool to o/c the graphics card. other than that nothing. Just keep myself well stocked with KFC wipes to clean the beast every once in a while!

I wonder if anyone has let their thinkpad undergo a crazy paintjob like those you see on alienware / voodoopc's

Hey, that reminds me, i thought i heard a story ages ago about ibm bringing out different coloured thinkpads?

EatMorGlue · #4 Post by **EatMorGlue** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:00 am

If you head over to the pictures forum, someone posted pics of a TP they painted electric blue.

I believe the consensus was that it looks "awful," although a few people did like it. Whatever floats your boat I suppose.

Vindicated · #5 Post by **Vindicated** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:01 am

I just got my thinkpad but I already ordered a 8x10 vinyl inkjet printable sticker. I plan on using one of the professional photo printers at my work, and print out a high-res image on it (found on deviantart). Then I'm going to slap the sticker on the laptop's lid. The idea is to 1.) personalize it for kicks, 2.) Make it stand out & easily reconizable as mine.

I also want to put a Stuffbak label; just in case hell freezes over and I some how lose my laptop. If you don't put some kind of lost & found label, your chance of getting is back is virtually 0, where as with the label it's more like a 75%-80% chance of recovery. And I'm thinking if I password protect the hell out of my system & bios offer a reward insentive for a return, my chances of getting a lost or stolen laptop will be even higher.

That reminds me (and sorry to change subjects), if you enable the power-up & BIOS password, won't programs like CompuTrace be worthless?

thinkpadz · #6 Post by **thinkpadz** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:04 am

no idea about computrace. sorry.

drewnyc · #7 Post by **drewnyc** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:44 pm

check out my post for some cool XP modifications

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=85193#85193

bhtooefr · #8 Post by **bhtooefr** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:45 pm

If it has CompuTrace BIOS Edition, then it'll still work.

If it doesn't, then it won't, because the regular CompuTrace lies on the hard drive, which the BIOS won't get to without password(s).

Nolonemo · #9 Post by **Nolonemo** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:12 pm

This is not really a mod as such, but I just slapped an NEC 6500A DVD burner into my T22, and boy, does that drive rock!

EatMorGlue · #10 Post by **EatMorGlue** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:39 pm

Vindicated wrote:That reminds me (and sorry to change subjects), if you enable the power-up & BIOS password, won't programs like CompuTrace be worthless?

I was wondering the same thing... here's what came of it when I asked:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=13214

asiafish · #11 Post by **asiafish** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:17 pm

I ditched the palmrest with touchpad and installed a plain one, making my T42p TrackPoint-only.

thinkpadz · #12 Post by **thinkpadz** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:10 pm

anyone painted their case or added lights etc??

#13 Post by **K. Eng** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:24 pm

I haven't done any modifications that radically altered this T40, but I did do more than a few things to 'tweak' it to my liking. It took a lot of time and effort, given that this was one of the first T40s made and not all the quirks were worked out yet.

(1) Used very thin packing foam to stabilize the right hand side of the keyboard. There was some flex here (that has since been eliminated - I checked on a friend's 14" T42 and it wasn't there). This was an extremely easy thing to do.

(2) Used very thin packing foam to prevent the battery from rattling. Yeah, I got a [censored] Sanyo battery that didn't fit all that well. But it's nice and snug now!

(3) Replaced touchpad palmrest with plain palmrest. After my T40 went to IBM for system board replacement, it came back with the palmrest horribly creaky. I was unable to get the palmrest back to normal, and the touchpad was all out of alignment. I got a plain palmrest, put some sticky foam over the HDD cage to eliminate some creaking, and it is mostly fine now.

(4) +256 MB RAM, +802.11a/b/g card. These were pretty much stock parts that I installed myself.

Edit! I forgot - a piece of the keyboard bezel on the left size cracked and fell off. I had to tape it back on with some packing tape

thinkpadz wrote:Anyone care to share any mods they've done to their t-series thinkpad.

rsramirez · #14 Post by **rsramirez** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:37 pm

where'd you guys get the plain palmrest? first thing i did when i got my machine was disable the touchpad. it would be nice to have a plain palmrest so that there's no dust and crud on the touchpad.

thanks.

Navck · #15 Post by **Navck** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:01 pm

Fact = We don't need to become a "XPS GEN 2" to have a great laptop. No lights or minimal lighting is fine with us

bhtooefr · #16 Post by **bhtooefr** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:06 pm

I'll add that I don't even sticker a ThinkPad.

If I've got a crappy Dell, I have to sticker it to detract from the giant "Dell" logo on there. I had a quite funny sticker that said "They can send me to college/but they can't make me think" on my Dell.

However, especially seeing as ThinkPads are black, a sticker on one would just look UGLY.

As for other mods on ThinkPads, I'd only do functional mods. Painting simply costs too much, and ruins the rubber coating that makes it so easy to grip the thing.

thinkpadz · #17 Post by **thinkpadz** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:11 pm

first of all who is "us"? you got a turd in your pocket?
I'm not saying that mods are good, bad, or even neccesary just curious what peeps have done.

Navck wrote:Fact = We don't need to become a "XPS GEN 2" to have a great laptop. No lights or minimal lighting is fine with us

JHaislet · #18 Post by **JHaislet** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:20 pm

I think I'll add a festive USB powered christmas tree to my laptop...
http://usb.brando.com.hk/usbxmastree.php

buildtuff · #19 Post by **buildtuff** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:46 pm

A Nushield is the best mod for thinkpad LCDs!!

Ted_E · #20 Post by **Ted_E** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:03 pm

Nolonemo wrote:This is not really a mod as such, but I just slapped an NEC 6500A DVD burner into my T22, and boy, does that drive rock!

Is that a drop in replacement ro did you have to commit some surgery?

pphilipko · #21 Post by **pphilipko** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:48 pm

buildtuff wrote:A Nushield is the best mod for thinkpad LCDs!!

Quite true, but have your tried the nutshield? With the some heat concerns with some IBM thinkpads, it might be wise to invest in one of these.

bhtooefr · #22 Post by **bhtooefr** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:08 pm

http://www.directron.com/pa248u.html

That what you're talking about?

#23 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:31 pm

No, I think he is talking about this!!!

http://nutshield.com/

bhtooefr · #24 Post by **bhtooefr** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:48 pm

A Socket 370 heatsink/fan stuck to some underwear (presumably with AS Ceramique?)

IF it were real, how would it be powered? USB? Glucose power?

Besides, wouldn't you get funny looks, as if you were browsing porn on your overheating ThinkPad?

Razorback · #25 Post by **Razorback** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:15 pm

I am looking for the plain palm rest as well for a T42p. Does anyone have a FRU?

rsramirez wrote:where'd you guys get the plain palmrest? first thing i did when i got my machine was disable the touchpad. it would be nice to have a plain palmrest so that there's no dust and crud on the touchpad.

thanks.

asiafish · #26 Post by **asiafish** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:20 pm

I bought mine from a guy on this lst who switched to an X-series, not sure of the FRU.

Navck · #27 Post by **Navck** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:26 pm

Hahahaha! NUTSHEILD = For Dell XPS Gen 2, or system with "high end nVidia portable graphics", or "Pentium 4-M", or both combined (Alienware)

bhtooefr · #28 Post by **bhtooefr** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:00 pm

The sad part is that I didn't need a nutshield for my Dell with a Pentium 4 (not Pentium 4-M, but a Pentium 4), but I DO need one for this thing if I've got it running at full speed. It's fine at 500MHz, but it's by FAR the hottest laptop I've ever owned at full speed.

ThinkPad · #29 Post by **ThinkPad** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:52 pm

JHaislet wrote:I think I'll add a festive USB powered christmas tree to my laptop...
http://usb.brando.com.hk/usbxmastree.php

GomJabbar wrote:No, I think he is talking about this!!!

http://nutshield.com/

#30 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:54 pm

pphilipko wrote:
buildtuff wrote:A Nushield is the best mod for thinkpad LCDs!!
Quite true, but have your tried the nutshield? With the some heat concerns with some IBM thinkpads, it might be wise to invest in one of these.

Hey, I can't take credit for pphilipko's post. I only showed where you could find out more about his hot mod (oops, just realized I had to replace the word I was going to use).

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