Putting a T42's drive into a T40

[BruceDickinson]

For sale locally at a great price is a T40 lacking a hard drive. At this point, I know nothing about its specs or operability.

To test the T40, what if I imaged a T42 drive (Win XP, 2373-NC1, Radeon 9600, 15", 1400 x 1050 Flexview) to a spare drive and stuck it in the T40? Is it madness to think it might actually boot into Windows?

Thanks for your help!

[poshgeordie]

We do this all the time - or rather we have one HDD and put into all T40 - T43p Thinkpads to test them after repair; occasionally we need a specific driver for a particular video / wifi / ethernet / modem card, and if you do need one they are easy to get hold of from here.

[RealBlackStuff]

If the T40 has Intel integrated gfx, it might not boot in normal windows because of your ATI drivers.
Start it up in Safe Mode (press F8 a few times on booting).

[BruceDickinson]

poshgeordie & RealBlackStuff--

That's terrific. Thanks so much for your replies.

[poshgeordie]

@RBS - does any version of T40 have Intel GFX?

We both know T43 does but I thought that was the only version.

[RealBlackStuff]

AFAIK no T40/T41/T42 came standard with Intel GPU.
But someone could have swapped out the board for an R50, R50e or R51 mobo with Intel GPU.