Minor problems with restored X41

[Garlic Bread]

Hi!

I am rebuilding am old X41 and it is coming along nicely, but I have run into some minor problems.

1) The specific PC I am working on has a HDP (harddisk password) set. I have the password and can use the PC, but it is annoying and I want it gone. How do I remove that? Will exchanging the HDD remove the problem?
2) There is an unknown device in Device Manager that I can't find the drivers for. It has an instance ID that reads 'APCI\IBM0068\5&2890D699&0', and DuckDuckGo tells me that it has something to do with power management. Lenovo hosts a driver that is supposed to fix it, but it does nothing. The rest of the devices was covered by the Snappy Drivers Installer.
3) The 'Access IBM' and sound control buttons on the keyboard is unresponsive. Do I need some software to activate them?

I have contacted theterminator93 regarding recovery discs which might solve some of my problems, but I don't expect them all to go away.

Best regards,
Michael

[SAIYAN48]

Your drivers should come from here: https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad- ... m/X41.html

This should have everything for recovery: https://archive.org/details/thinkpad_x4 ... t_recovery

[Garlic Bread]

The Power manager drivers from the link you provided fixed the unknown device problem, thanks!

The Hotkey Drivers didn't work though, and comes up with an error message that says 'This system is not supported'. I tried installing Presentation Director and Access Connections programs that the readme says that the Hotkey driver needs, but still no luck.

I'll continue to try to fix the hotkey and HDD PW issues and get back if I make any progress.

[RealBlackStuff]

Usually such a HDD PW can be removed via the BIOS.
But maybe the PW needs to be removed in the laptop where the HDD originally came from?

[theterminator93]

I think RBS is right that the HDD password can be removed from BIOS. If not, swapping out the HDD should get rid of it as well.

[Garlic Bread]

Sorry about the radio silence, I have been waiting for parts to arrive from China.

The PC runs (mostly) beautifully, and after upgrading to Service Pack 3 I am able to use .NET 4.0 which I needed to run some programs. I also upgraded the 40 GB slow-as-balls HDD to a 128 GB mSATA SSD using an IDE>mSATA adapter, which sped up the PC significantly and gave me some much needed extra storage space.

I actually use this PC to read .pdfs and run spreadsheets and Chummer for when I attend Shadowrun tabletop games, and it is absolutely glorious

There is just a tiny problem left... The RAM. I noticed that CPU-Z listed the RAM type as SD-RAM running with a frequency of 99.7 MHz. I popped the RAM door and found a 2 GB stick of DDR2-5300S RAM in the RAM slot, and figured that the low frequency could be caused by the RAM module being of an unsupported size and speed, so I removed it. The remaining 0.5 GB is now listed as proper DDR2-RAM, but the speed is still listed as 99.7 MHz. Am I wrong to think that the DDR2-4200 should run at 266 MHz? At any rate I have ordered a 1 GB stick of DDR2-4200 just because, and it seems to be stuck in shipping limbo somewhere between here and China. How do I make the RAM run at the correct speed? The BIOS has no options to tamper with the RAM in any meaningful way.