Posts by the_bob

Oh well. What's led me to at least hope this might be possible are these cases of people putting graphics cards in thinkpad advanved docks:...

Can a decent graphics card plugged into a docking station turn a laptop into a relatively up-to-date gaming machine ? Are there any special performance considerations, compared to how effective the graphics card would be in a PC ? Also,...

Ultimately, this article on ThinkWiki helped me get a better understanding of what's going on. Currently I'm convinced that the HPA on my T40 is, simply put, messed up. My first attempt to grab it was using this technique, that is...

Ok, so I went through the trouble of backing up all my stuff to the HDD in my main PC, started up the rescue and recovery and told it to go ahead and restore my system back to the factory default... Quote: Originally...

Well, I've managed to boot into the predesktop environment. This thing even has Opera installed, yay ! *** RANT WARNING *** Still, the logic of how this works eludes me - when I got a badly messed up system, good only for...

That text mostly explains how the recovery is supposed to work. The problem is, the F11 was never there, and I don't think I ever had the C:\IBMTOOLS folder - meaning I have to find a different way of getting to the recovery partition....

I don't mean to boast how stupid and vicious I was, reather share this with the rest of the world as a testament to how tough thinkpads actually are. And that they are definately not indestructible. First off, it was a...

A few questions about how can I put this hidden partition to use. First, will I be able to access it from another computer (by taking the HDD out of my T40)? Is it just a hidden partition or is it somehow encrypted or not registred as...

Hey, I really could use some guidence here, if a better mobo will work then I really won't mind a better GPU. Another thing that I forgot to ask are these wierd special screws that are used in this laptop - provided I'm going to take...

Does anyone have some useful info on the practical difference between these ? Is there really a big, noticeable improvement when running maya3d/3ds max on one of these 'pro' cards rather then on the regular models they are based on ?...