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Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#61 Post by Mindfulness Quebec » Mon May 30, 2016 2:05 pm

Cards that have been tested to work with the setup (from this thread http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... &start=210):
- Zotac Nvidia Geforce GT 520
- Radeon HD 5450
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCco69x20Jo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXzCGBQ0dKY
- Sapphire hd 5570
- Sapphire ATI HD4550 Silent, 512 MB (DVI + HDMI)
- Sapphire RADEON HD 5450 - PCI Express 2.0 x16 low profile, 512 MB DDR3 (DVI + HDMI)
- Asus Radeon EAH6450 SILENT/DI, 1GB DDR3 (DVI + HDMI)
PM me if you have others that work

I have a few older 61's pre-08/08 with NVS140M chips that haven't failed yet (knock on wood). I also have a couple of the Radeon cards and 2503 docking stations. It's a reasonable fix that you propose, but I can't bear the fan noise of that dock with with a Radeon card in it. In fact, with some ThinkPads the fan runs all the time even without the Radeon.

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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#62 Post by crashnburn » Sat Jun 04, 2016 7:06 am

So this bypasses the internal card for the external?
T61 8892-02U: 14.1"SXGA+/2.2C2D/4G/XP|Adv Mini Dock|30" Gateway XHD3000 WQXGA via Dual-link DVI
X61T 7767-96U: 12.1"SXGA+/1.6C2D/3G/Vista|Ultrabase
W510 4319-2PU: 15.6"FHD/i7-720QM/4G/Win7Pro64 (for dad)
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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#63 Post by Mindfulness Quebec » Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:16 pm

crashnburn wrote:So this bypasses the internal card for the external?
Yep.

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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#64 Post by jcvjcvjcvjcv » Mon Jun 13, 2016 8:15 am

You can just as well mod the dock to either remove the fan or replace it.
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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#65 Post by Mindfulness Quebec » Mon Jun 13, 2016 9:24 pm

jcvjcvjcvjcv wrote:You can just as well mod the dock to either remove the fan or replace it.
I would like to know of a replacement fan for the 2503 that is silent and yet prevents the docking station from cooking.

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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#66 Post by crashnburn » Thu Aug 04, 2016 7:03 am

Was looking through cheapest existing cards - GT 720 based. 36$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

Should this work?
T61 8892-02U: 14.1"SXGA+/2.2C2D/4G/XP|Adv Mini Dock|30" Gateway XHD3000 WQXGA via Dual-link DVI
X61T 7767-96U: 12.1"SXGA+/1.6C2D/3G/Vista|Ultrabase
W510 4319-2PU: 15.6"FHD/i7-720QM/4G/Win7Pro64 (for dad)
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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#67 Post by cadillacmike68 » Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:12 am

crashnburn wrote:Was looking through cheapest existing cards - GT 720 based. 36$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

Should this work?
The only problem with this card is that it is made by the SAME cabrons who caused all the problems in the first place. Why give them even 1 penny after what they caused????? :twisted:

What's the deal with Raedons being branded AMD and Asus? AMD is the one who acquired ATI. Is Asus just re-branding the AMD cards for their systems, sort of like the way IBM branded the Adaptec SCSI controllers back in the late 90s? Are the Asus and AMD cards of the same model identical except for the branding?
600 600X
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T30 2366-88U 2GHz; 2366-83U 1.8G; 5@ 2366-LU0/66U; 2367-KU6 FUBARd
T41 T42 T43
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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#68 Post by axur-delmeria » Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:21 am

What's the deal with Raedons being branded AMD and Asus? AMD is the one who acquired ATI. Is Asus just re-branding the AMD cards for their systems, sort of like the way IBM branded the Adaptec SCSI controllers back in the late 90s?
Most of the differences boil down to:

1. different cooling system, using axial fans instead of a single blower-type fan in the AMD reference design.
example: Asus R9 285 vs AMD reference R9 285

Blower fans are powerful but quite noisy. Replacing them with axial fans results if a quieter system, which many owners prefer.

2. Slightly faster base and boost clock speeds compared to the reference design.
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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#69 Post by greybot » Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:07 am

I cut the fan cord a few years ago on both the PSU and graphic cards fan enclosure. Not had any problems with heat but then again I do run a low profile card of just 35watts. (Gt 610 for high resolution monitor only really as not much of a gamer.)

It's amazing how silent my whole setup is.

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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#70 Post by deepkishore » Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:35 am

Hi:
First time posting to this forum.
I was able to use a hair dryer to temporarily revive my laptop (T61P): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qS1KDgVotk
I changed the BIOS settings to that shown by OP. However, it seems that switching default primary device (from Internal to PCI EXPRESS) is not necessary. If you have an advanced dock with a PCI-E video card it will use that in case the internal NVidia chip has issues.
BTW, I am using a GeForce GTX1030 from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071DY2VJR
Windows 10 detects the card, installs the GeForce drivers but somehow reverts back to using its Basic Display Driver for some reason. At least, I have a usable laptop/PC now. Video performance is not great (due to the driver issue) but the system is usable for basic stuff.
-Deep
My system details:
Model: Thinkpad T61P
RAM: 4GB
HDD: 250GB SSD

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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#71 Post by cadillacmike68 » Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:10 pm

I've read this thread over a couple times and this caught my eye:
miro_gt wrote:
Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:48 pm
for those having problems with connecting external video card via the advanced dock, please be aware that those may give problems if your laptop is having more than 2GB or RAM. So if you experience beeps at boot up (1-long + 2-short beeps is video card error), limit your laptop to 2GB RAM and this will solve all issues. Some people have reported that up to 2.5GB of RAM works fine (1x2GB DIMM + 512MB DIMM), but 3GB and over does not. However this may differ slightly based on the used BIOS/OS.
Is this accurate - you Can't boot up if you have a graphics card in the Adv dock and more than 2GB of RAM???

After all the $$$ I spent on getting these systems to 8GB per machine??
600 600X
760LD FUBARd
T21 2647 T22 2647 1@ 1GHz SXGA+ 4 more; T23 2647 1@ 1.2GHz SXGA+ 3 more
T30 2366-88U 2GHz; 2366-83U 1.8G; 5@ 2366-LU0/66U; 2367-KU6 FUBARd
T41 T42 T43
T60 T61 8897 2.4GHz SXGA+; 8898 2.4Ghz; 6463 2@ WSXGA+; 7658 2.5GHz; T61p; 6 more T61s
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Re: Dead T61 w/Nvidia 140M? Here's an option. *PICS*

#72 Post by farmall » Sat Feb 03, 2018 3:10 pm

It's not always true but finding successful examples to copy takes some looking.

This thread goes into depth and has a couple of successful examples.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/v3_ ... 721/page/1

Best e-gpu forum I've seen:

https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/ ... -projects/

I found those a while back while considering an external GPU, but I didn't bother since it's a poor investment vs. using my faster desktops and leaving my T61s as portable internet appliances.

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