t61 repairs

[ianf]

hello all and seasons greetings

i have bought some junk although i hope that proves to be wrong ihave a bought a pair of incomplete t61s one a 15.4" with an nvidia chip and the other with an intel gpu neither post well that said both will flash the lights and the fan runs for 2 seconds neither came with cpu or fan the usual stripped to the minium so i am using a t2400 cpu and now thinking maybe this is the reason for a lack of life the intel mb should post and maybe its the cpu if i can get something from these i will get a quote from poshgordie for repairs well the nvidia as i would like the 15.4 and the other extras that are lacking on my t60.

intel fru t61 41w1487
nvidia 15.4" fru 42w7652

thanks ian

[Eric Giles]

I pretty certain you need a different CPU in order for the the T61's to work-something along the lines of a T7100, T7300, or T7500. I'm sure there are others that will work in that range, but off the top of my head I know that those CPU's came in the T61 models.

[ianf]

thanks for that very quick reply eric, if other confirm i guess i wil strip out my t7500 out of my t60 but i hope thats the case as i am certain one of the boards should at least post

ian

[RealBlackStuff]

One word: punctuation

[ianf]

ok Eric

i have ordered a T7300 so when it arrives we shall see

thanks ian .

[ianf]

happy new year to all.

well that cpu was the problem, both the boards are working, i used a t7300 cpu, plus i got a 15.4" panel wsxga and its not bad to view at all.
i intend to build the t61 (intel gpu) into the 14" t60 i have and sell the t60 board.

The t61 15.4 .. i got a agn 4965 wifi card of course it will not show in device manager etc although intel, its not a ibm branded one , i used the link RBS sent but for the T61 bios but it reports flash not required it worked well when used for a t43 (in a t43 of course) so i wonder if that bios is already in , i wonder if RBS could say if there are any clues as to who's bios is loaded(not sure if i need to be this cryptic) i burned the first column not the bios string in the second column my version being 2.25 typed command and hit enter ,there was a long silence then a long beep.

Is there a special order for the 3 wires to connect to the wifi card, bluetooth is in the vga panel.

anyhow last year was not good for me ,father fell and has spent the last 3 weeks in hospital (82nd birthday in hospital) going up twice a day , still what luck 2x t61s m/b that both work for very little so this year starts better and hope its a goodyear for all.


ian..

[richk]

Assuming you have 3 wires from the lcd (gray, white, black) and 3 connectors on the card, gray goes on the left, and white is in the middle.

[RealBlackStuff]

You should have downloaded the 7luj25u file and burned the .iso from it.
If your laptop does not give any 180x errors with a non-IBM wifi card, than you have Zender's BIOS installed.

[ianf]

thanks for the wire info richk.

On the matter of the bios RBS , i was toying with the idea of going the ssd route, well after easter as the cost seems to have been droping steadly , i have a seagate monumentus ST9500420AS , 500gb 7200 , 16mb that i will fit this week with win 7 x64 , i have read the thread regarding the middleton bios and please correct me if needed, but this seems to offer many features, but i wonder if i use this will i see the gain on a sata hdd. also i could not work out which bios would suit this m/b , it has the fire wire and a card reader plus the 15.4 w/s and nvidia gpu.

On a different note i have a cason infared thermometer and was looking at the temps around the hsf unit,
the temps on the .. cpu around 98 c
nvidia gpu 105 c
south bridge 102c
cpu load at 10%
gpu at 60% ( never less than 52%)

i did notice with the wrong hsf that the gpu temp hit 125c and the t61 died so i have fitted the correct hsf to achieve these temps, but have located a tiny fan that should fit near/ adjacent to gpu to see if the nvidia gpu failure could be reduced, just a thought as the hsf has a lot to cool.


regards ian