Thinkpad s30 and s31 - The asian miracles!

[Gold007]

I couldn't find any topics about these cool little machines, so I thought I would start one. For first, they are far the coolest portables ever, I think. For second, they are very rare so you should really appreciate these tiny wonders I have one too, but unfortunately it's an s30, so it doesn't have that cool, shiny, piano black cover. Apart from that it's a great machine, I can use it for browsing or text editing, or even watching a film
But I have a question: What kind of external display connector does it have? I couldn't find out it. Even the HMM says "External monitor (mini-plug)" Before you reply, no, it's not HDMI, nor mini VGA.
Thanks in advance.

Gold007

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

If you browse deeper through the forum - especially this "classic" sub-forum - you'll see that there are actually quite a few posts regarding S30 and S31 models. A lot of folks around here owned them at one point - myself included - and some still do, including forum's owner...

You can post the pictures of your rare bird in this thread:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=21

[Gold007]

I still don't know what type of connector is it. I would really appreciate if someone could help me. I've seen a picture of a converter or cable plugged into this laptop, it had a D-sub on the other end and wasn't so big, so I guess it should be just a simple cable without any active components.

[Gold007]

It would also be great if someone could tell me how to get the Easy Launch buttons working. Thanks!

[DDinghoya]

I'll check my FRU of external monitor cable for s30 after my business.

Also, Please see as below fuction buttons util and etc.

http://nothing.sh/thinkpad/s30.html

[DDinghoya]

IBM ThinkPad s30 CRT Conversion adapter : 27L0659

[Gold007]

Thanks a lot man! You almost saved my life with this FRU number I hope I will find one somewhere. Also, I have checked that page already, but the links are dead, IBM is now focusing on servers and has deleted all their old sites

[DDinghoya]

Sorry I could not check link. So, I uploaded new link as below;

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B0jSd ... sp=sharing

[Gold007]

Ooh my god, thanks a million!! I cant express my gratitude for you.

[michelle13]

Ooh my god, thanks a million!! I cant express my gratitude for you.

Hi Gold007,
I also have the s30 and looking for the recovery cd for it. do you by any chance still keep them?

[Gold007]

Unfortunately I don't have that CD, nor any other accessories, just the laptop But why do you need it? You can just save your stuff to somewhere and install a new XP on it. Your computer will be much faster. And also I guess the recovery CD is Japanese, becasue the s30 was sold in AsiaPacific only.

[michelle13]

Unfortunately I don't have that CD, nor any other accessories, just the laptop But why do you need it? You can just save your stuff to somewhere and install a new XP on it. Your computer will be much faster. And also I guess the recovery CD is Japanese, becasue the s30 was sold in AsiaPacific only.

You basically right,
But the thing is, I hardly use those laptops those days, so the joyful part (at list for me) is to see them working with their old OC and the third party software that came with the preinstalled configuration.
I had tried fresh install more then a few times, on my 240x but it was never like the original install. Those days Lenovo don’t really provide ALL the software that came in the preinstall.
So basically, I can get to what I want ONLY with the recovery cd's.

Hopefully, someone out there still have them….

[Gold007]

I think you mean OS not OC Anyway, you could try to contact the Lenovo suppport, they may could help you.

[DDinghoya]

I think you mean OS not OC Anyway, you could try to contact the Lenovo suppport, they may could help you.

Recovery CD FRU list - ThinkPad s30/s31 as belows;

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... MIGR-41550

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Language, Microsoft Windows XP Home

Chinese, Traditional (Hong Kong) : 46P6366
Chinese, Traditional (Taiwan) : 46P6364
English (Asean, Hong Kong) : 32P6298
Japan : 46P6979
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[michelle13]

Well, to revive an old thread,
It's been a while and i STILL haven't manage to find anyone that have the recovery cd's for the Ibm ThinkPad s30 /31 (2639).
Does anyone here have by any chance the ThinkPad s30/s31 recovery cd?
Or even the hidden recovery partition, and willing to share it?
I will be more than happy to pay for it…
I've been looking for them it seems like no one bothered to keep them.
So many ThinkPad's lovers and no-love for me...(
Those ThinkPad's were hard to find, but trying to find the recovery cd's is really taking its toll...
Help, anyone?