Refurbed & Upgraded X120E

[DaKKS]

It all began with tbessie being nice enough to put his broken X120E up for shipping. From his description it was most likely the LCD, which also proved to be correct once I opened up the package. Four distinct cracks consistent with severe pressure damage.

The original screen I planned to use ended up not being compatible (LED vs CFL) so i ordered an identical screen to the one in the X120E off ebay. Got it today and did the swap in under ten minutes.

Two bugs: Brightness under 5 equals minimum (Display is set to the normal 1-10 instead of the IBM/Lenovo 1-15 brightness setting.) and it takes a few seconds longer to boot. The latter is consistent with other Thinkpads that use non IBM/Lenovo displays. I assume it does not recognise the non IBM/Lenovo spec display and tries to boot off HDMI and VGA before defaulting to the internal display. Bios settings generally do nothing. Noticed this on other Thinkpads as well.

I apologize for the photo quality. I'm running an experimental kernel on my mobile, which just happened to be my only digital camera.









Specs:
AMD E350 APU @ 1.6ghz
8GB DDR3 ram
120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
Windows 7 Pro x64

Once I can get a hold of a whitelisted bios I will install a WWAN card or a BCM HD decoder, we'll see which one.


Thanks tbessie, I owe you one! You saved my bacon (my travel computer died two day ago). If I'm ever in the neighbourhood, drinks are on me.