"Takes a lickin keeps tickin"

[ChefJohn]

OK I have a 600E (2645- 55U) that I ebayed. The seller said It had the usual 192 161 163 errors.
I fixed that with a new battery but noticed that a few of the connectors were "rusty" ... everything seemed to work though.
A few niggling problems but at least it worked I could upgrade the memory with 2 SOdims each 128 ....
So I thought in for a penny in for a pound and got a real deal on a PIII 500 (upgrade from the PII 300)....

OK when I unscrew it the truth reveals itself ... It had taken a "bath or shower or ?" I cleaned everything off with Stabilant 22 Great stuff I carefully inserted the processor remembering all the stuff I had read.

Placed the Keyboard back - didn't put in all the screws

BOOTED GOT A 161 163 then a 127 error ...ok
went through the process ... but duh hadn't read it fully
Power off
thought a bit

re read the directions

and tada re booted no errors

Oh oh had to reactivate XP ... nice lady in Bangalore

and here i am typing on a formerly wet (pre my ownership) PIII 500 600E... speedstep says the FSB is a 98.7 cache is enabled.

I wonder how many other notebooks could be this rugged? and dare I say it well designed.....

My opinions of thinkpads has CHANGED! IN the old days I cursed them for all the non standard features (LPT1 wasn't irq 7).