thanks guys, I already have a SATA ultra bay for my T30, just out of curiosity I wanted to see if I could convert a non working cd burner into an ultrabay by fitting an IDE drive in it and making the necessary connections. I already took every thing out of the burner and cut the plastic to fit the I...

I am trying to put an IDE hard drive in the plastic surrounds of a gutted CD drive, do you know what type of connector (specs) I need to make this work for T30 You could buy 'bare' CDRW/DVD drives from other laptop brands, and then transfer the black plastic surrounds from the old DVD drives onto th...

thanks Ron, I booted it today and it came right up then I let it run for a few hours and everything was ok.

well you certainly have solved my problem since you mentioned multiple key strokes. I used to quit after a few soft touches but now I just keep beating the sh......... out of it till it gives up and it does- just that. I don't need a keyboard anymore but I think I need a mobo for another t30 I keep ...

thanks Ron, I was hoping to find a close enough keyboard to modify so that I did not have to carry around a port replicator.I find it interesting that the key press is not always recognized by the mobo. It kind of makes sense because I have three otherwise perfectly good keyboads except for the powe...

thanks RBP, is it the screw stands on the back of the keyboard or the ribbon connection that makes this keyboard one of a kind? My power botton does not turn the machine on and off. I bought a keyboard on ebay but that had the same problem.This is a pretty old laptop but I am pretty happy with it an...

Does anyone know if any other thinkpad keyboard fits a T30

well gentlemen. After following thru with all your suggestions when I shut the computer down last night I heard 1 3 3 1 beeps which meant the motherboard is ok. So took out a 256 ram chip from my HP laptop and put it in and wala. Apparently the memory stick was no good. It now loads windows just fin...

yes it does. when the compter is turned on the IBM spash screen flashes for 1/2 second and then everything is black

I set the screen saver as well as the power settings to default. I even changed the inverter. Everything appeared to have been corrected last night. but this morning it is back to acting up again

T30 display shuts off in approximately 5 minutes after start up but the computer stays on till turned off. Reboot, and everything is fine for another 5 minutes. I put in a new hard drive to see if I get a different result, but no such luck .Any ideas or thoughts on the culprit

thanks for all your inputs

You are absolutely right the subject has been covered rather extensively but a lot of it is too technical and requires a very strong background in computers.and of course the other problem was that some of the links were not accessible.It took a bit of time but I did manage to sort thru it all and m...

I followed RBS's suggestion, got a broadcom bcm 94306mpsg and installed it , booted up and got error 1802, then removed it, and installed the driver for it as well as Dell's 1300 driver. I still got the same error 1802 upon booting. I then installed the bcm94306 while the laptop was on . It took a l...

can anyone please explain why the touchpad scroll on my T30 works fine except when I am surfing a web page. It just stops working all together thanks

I just took the palmrest out of my T30 to clean under it. It was pretty dirty/dusty. I put it back, and firmly connected the touchpad connector to the motherboard but now the touch pad and the trackball do not work. I managed to get the trackball to work by disabling the touch pad in setup. Any sugg...

I just took the palmrest out of my T30 to clean under it. It was pretty dirty/dusty. I put it back, and firmly connected the touchpad connector to the motherboard but now the touch pad and the trackball do not work. I managed to get the trackball to work by disabling the touch pad in setup. Any sugg...

thanks Harry, but the home trial version of Acronis does not permit cloning. I am waiting for the recovery cd's to try.

PLEASE HELP US CHANGE T30'S LANGUAGE Friend of mine just bought a T30 on Ebay which must have been originally sold in Poland because the default language is in Polish, other than that it is a good clean unit. He turns it on everything works fine,Win XP Pro pops right up but beyond that everything po...

I no longer take the laptop on the road, how do I change the settings to run it on Ac power only with or without the battery

Guys - I got used T30 2366 and would like to restore it to original condition. Can you please tell me where to get XP restore CD? Thanks so much