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Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#1 Post by nightninja96 » Sat Oct 21, 2017 7:28 pm

I have an IBM Thinkpad T60 14.1" non-widescreen and I want to upgrade my motherboard to a better on that has penryn support and a better gpu with little/no case modification.
Thanks in advance! :D

Is this a good choice: https://www.ebay.com/itm/42W9380-IBM-LE ... Sw9idZ5mVD

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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#2 Post by ajkula66 » Sat Oct 21, 2017 8:04 pm

"Pulled from a new T61"

:roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:

These systems were discontinued by mid 2008...and we're at the end of 2017.
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#3 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Sat Oct 21, 2017 9:38 pm

My new T61, X301 and HP Compaq NX32**?

They are out there, but I really HIGHLY doubt it was new.
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#4 Post by nightninja96 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 8:33 am

Ignoring the fact that this motherboard isn't new, would this be a good motherboard for my thinkpad upgrade?

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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#5 Post by ajkula66 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:17 am

nightninja96 wrote:
Sun Oct 22, 2017 8:33 am
Ignoring the fact that this motherboard isn't new, would this be a good motherboard for my thinkpad upgrade?
If I'm not mistaken, that's a planar with Intel integrated graphics, not nVidia. Presuming that you're OK with that fact, it should work fine.
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#6 Post by nightninja96 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:28 pm

What exactly do you mean by thinkpad planar. I'm kind of new to this frankenpad thing.
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#7 Post by ajkula66 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:34 pm

nightninja96 wrote:
Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:28 pm
What exactly do you mean by thinkpad planar. I'm kind of new to this frankenpad thing.
Thanks
Planar is IBM/Lenovo term for motherboard.
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#8 Post by nightninja96 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:08 pm

Will a 15" non-wide screen motherboard work in my 14" thinkpad? I am worried about this because I read something about 15" motherboards not working with 14" thinkpads due to the motherboard being physically obstructed and the 15" motherboard would output for 1 15" screen not 14".
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#9 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:34 pm

The 15 and 14 nonwide boards are identical. The only difference is the 15" units have an interposer card to make up the difference inside the case, but just slides in to the board.
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#10 Post by nightninja96 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:47 pm

So do you all think that the board i mentioned before (https://www.ebay.com/itm/42W9380-IBM-LE ... Sw9idZ5mVD) would be a good choice for my project. My project is to mod the bios to support 8gb of ram, sata II speeds, and penryn cpus then I'm planning to install this cpu (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-2-E ... 2548.l4275) and add an ssd to the thinkpad.

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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#11 Post by ajkula66 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 4:48 pm

nightninja96 wrote:
Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:47 pm
So do you all think that the board i mentioned before (https://www.ebay.com/itm/42W9380-IBM-LE ... Sw9idZ5mVD) would be a good choice for my project. My project is to mod the bios to support 8gb of ram, sata II speeds, and penryn cpus then I'm planning to install this cpu (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-2-E ... 2548.l4275) and add an ssd to the thinkpad.
You can't install an X9100 without a pinmod along with a different BIOS mod from one that is most commonly used (Middleton's).
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#12 Post by nightninja96 » Mon Oct 23, 2017 3:12 pm

How difficult is it to perform the "pin mod" and how would I do it?
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#13 Post by ajkula66 » Mon Oct 23, 2017 3:45 pm

nightninja96 wrote:
Mon Oct 23, 2017 3:12 pm
How difficult is it to perform the "pin mod" and how would I do it?
Thanks
If you have to ask then you've already answered your own question...
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#14 Post by nightninja96 » Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:26 pm

How do I perform the pin mod.
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#15 Post by RealBlackStuff » Tue Oct 24, 2017 4:22 pm

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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#16 Post by nightninja96 » Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:33 am

Where can I find this bios that supports the x9100?

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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#17 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:35 am

Also, on the forum. Everything you need is here.
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Re: Thinkpad T60 Motherboard Swap OK?

#18 Post by cadillacmike68 » Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:23 pm

Nightninja,

What the experts here are politely trying to say is that you are getting in Way over your head. I don't even want to mess with pinmods and I'm pretty adept. But if you want to try it, there are a couple of threads that go into great detail. You Cannot do this with just the Middleton BIOS, you need the higsun one ( think), and that's on a German language forum. Be prepared to toss out everything, especially if you mess up that pin mod.

You should not need a BIOS mod to take a T61 system board to 8GB, but the 4GB modules are quite pricey, more than double the cost of the same size but newer DDR3 modules.

And you want to put this all into a T60. Well, good luck and keep us posted.
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