2645-51U - Just acquired on ebay and it does seem to work

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But this is what I get with XP installation.

I kind of expected it in Windows 98 as I already own another thinkpad 2645-45U. But not quite in XP

2645-45U installs as ACPI
2645-51U installs as Standard PC

I have already applied CStateFlags.reg but that didn't do a darn thing. Could this be something misconfigured in BIOS. It hasn't been updated for ages and it was running somewhat hot. So I flashed it to 1.22 and at least that's better for now.

On a side note this 2645-51U seems to run somewhat slower than 2645-45U - that one (45U) still amazes me how quick the unit is.

Any ideas?


On a side note - did it ever occur to you on any 600X machine that it might just freeze up (Hardlock) once a day (mouse wouldn't move). It happens to me and at that slow of a rate and sometimes mouse resumes moving - sometimes it doesn't. The longer I keep it on it seems to be better. Most often when I just turn it on I have to wait like 2 hours before it happens. Then after a reboot it works for another more than 4 hours just fine (it doesn't freeze again until it cools off).

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All right something was screwed up in BIOS and then I used Thinkpad Configuration utility within XP. I changed something like Com Port or Infrared Port and disabled the PCI bus (for docking station I think).

My XP started bluescreening - no way I could recover this.

I also had Windows 98 which through which I tried to recover my installation but that didn't quite help.

However, repair of XP fixed the problem and now the device manager looks beautiful.

Then all of a sudden I started getting two beeps every time computer is turned on after a shutdown. Go to Easy Setup and Initialize thinkpad - problem is now gone.

The unit is also now working faster and XP did find ACPI compliant system (I think that's the reason why it wouldn't boot > usually on desktop motherboards you will get a warning that switching from APM to ACPI computer may not boot).

What can I say - got to thinker a bit - unit cost me $59 bucks + extra memory for $14 dollars. I already had some spare hard disks and now it seems to work just marvelous.

I will likely reinstall it and hopefully reactivate it, should be the least of problems.