Hi, I'm facing CPU throttling for a while now, I doubt it is temperature related and I've tried adjusting windows 10 settings to no avail. The CPU is sitting mostly at 63/65°, around 1.3 & 1.6ghz, plugged to the power supply, even when the laptop is churning stuff, such as compiling code, etc. It ca...

dr_st, Brad, thanks for your replies. In the end, it seems the error was due to flimsy seating in the small caddy, despite the original drive never gave me that error, it took me a lot of trials to eventually get the new drive working. By a strange turn of events, the original drive got a boot issue...

The actual message is:

2100: Detection error onh Storage Device (Main HDD)

Press Esc to continue.

I've got a intel 665p drive for my T25, but I'm unable to get it detected, and before I tweaked some bios settings to enable legacy USB boot for my install medium, it shown "error 20xx" about main drive error. The drive is new so I doubt it has a problem and think it is related to the thinkpad itsel...

So I ordered a set on Lenovo website, they are as small as the others I got on ebay and amazon, although they feel softer. The old one I have is from t40 era so it might have been expanded due to long use, I hope the new ones I got will also adjust similarly.

Thanks to the three of you for your advices, I'm going to get proper wrench and try to adjust the nut as a first measure.

Hi, I finally got my w520, a very nice & maxed out machine which runs quiet and fast. I have two small issues though, first is the main trackpoint buttons are very mushy which I know how to fix (change the keyboard, is there anything else I can do?) but the other problem is that the hinges are too t...

I'm looking for softrim trackpoint caps, I bought a set on amazon and another one on ebay, they both look significantly smaller than the old ones I have. Is it because they tend to flatten / expand with usage or that they are actually not genuine parts on the marketplace? Anyone has found a reliable...

Thanks Ajkula, I think I'll get a intel 730 (I use one with my T420s), I'm somehow leaning toward intel wrt. SSD drives and thanks for the notice about TLC which I wasn't aware of.

Thanks both for your thorough and helpful answer :) I just bought a W520 with quad-core 2.5 i7 and maxed ram to upgrade my T420s, what intel ssd do you recommend to put in the msata port? For the primary SATA bay, am I good going with this one: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state...

I'm wondering if I can put those SSDs in it:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... -spec.html

What about the one which has height of 3.73mm ?

Thanks for insight.

just to point a recent article on osnews:

http://www.osnews.com/story/22274/The_H ... nkPad_Name

Hello Underclocker,

I didn't know "mint" meant "new in box"

thanks for the deal, the laptop has found a new home

I'm now seeking for theses:
- french azerty keyboard
- european prong cord
- iso image of system restore

Think I'll contact lenovo for theses

Is it just me or I see a T60 with older keyboard here:

http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/?p=171

there is no win key, and top keys are lighter colored?

Hi thanks for the tips, for unknown reason, most of my Fn shortcuts don't work anymore (standby, bluetooth, screen brightness and thinklight still work but not the others). I've try to set things in 'Presentation Director' but I can't find the wanted resolution, only 4:3 resolution are shown (upto 2...

Works great here with a t40p and dock II on my fresh 24' monitor.

However I'm having issue not being able to set external monitor as primary display, anyone have solution for this?

Have a t40p here, and got pretty decent sound output from the headphone jack (no noise).

Nothing compared to my other d610 (noise).

sugo wrote:I wouldn't blame Lenovo on that one. SATA Seagate 7200 seems to run hotter than PATA Hitachi 7K series.

I think they are to blame here: didn't they choose to source hd from seagate instead of hitachi?

Hello, I encounter somewhat simmilar problem with the fan on my t40p: two days ago, I encountered a raw power down while playing a 3d game, now the system power down everytime I run application with cpu at 100% for a while (at full cpu speed), the only work arround is to set the cpu at the lowest sp...

Hello, I got this problem: most of fn+FX shortcuts aren't handled anymore. It's like that since I disabled a bunch of "useless" windows services wich where consuming memory. Since I did that in a raw batch, I can't remind or find the one dedicated to support fn shorcuts, now only fn+F4, thinklight a...

Anyone know why theses offer aren't available world wide?

I would buy it in a heart beat if it was available near me...

9 cell battery is the one that "poke out", and the only other option is 6 cell that don't "poke out". If you search for the "unpoked one", you can find much 6 cell new in box batteries listed on ebay at low price.

Good luck!

Hello, I just received a new in sealed box 9 cell sanyo battery today, and it's outstanding :) I buyed it for 94$ including shipping to France on ebay from a great dude. Buying one on ebay or such was the only option for me because retail price is arround 200€ here, so it was a great deal. It took m...

Nits are candela per meter square - used as a measurement of screen brightness for display cubes. Basically the higher the Nits the brighter the screen. I have decided to wait for the flexview version of the 20078ju. Hopefully it comes out in the next couple weeks. Sorry if I stay kind of out of to...

The behaviour you note is also true of the forward and back buttons in a browser. On my T41, the keys work the same way as the IE6 buttons. There are no differences that I can see. ... JD Hurst the fact is that sometimes (mistake on my side) I stroke nav-back instead of left key (however they have ...

Hello, maybe not usefull at your location, but I know that here, in France, IBM sell extended warranties for arround 150 € / year. With such warranty, you would ask service request as with standard warranty coming with a new laptop.

Maybe you can ask a salesrep for such warranty plan?

jdhurst & others: what happen if he has hd password protection?

I experience different results with two identical speced t40p: at low freq (600mhz), first one work well undervolted (0,7v), while other freeze after few minutes with same settings. Temp is a bit higher (39-43°) with the undervolted while iddling, the other one keep < 38°. If I was inclined to do so...

As for now, ubuntu was the simpliest distrib I tried on my t40p, and have to say it work flawlessly (sound, network, gfx and all) without any special configuration. After installation, system is configured with right resolution, cpufreq installed etc. IMHO, it was far painless to install than standa...

I went into similar issue by having one of my t40p go forth-back to servicing for problems ranging from GPU fault and USB port defect (unit turned off when pluging usb devices). All theses repairs (except the last one) occurred before warranty expiration, during the second repair, left touchpad butt...