Posts by gerryf

the t61 has been replaced by the t400 and t500 series. It is still a very good notebook for people who are hard on their notebooks, but lenovo did cut some corners when the abandoned the venerable t61 line--particularly the keyboard and...

It shouldn't...doesn't make sense unless the drive had been formatted previously in a non-standard way. Since you have a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter, put it back in their and use disk management to partition and format it, then during the XP...

once again, I am stunned that this thread is still alive and people still are downloading this bios. wow There is no reason why this bios would effect your ability to format the drive or have windows read it as a 6gb drive. What does...

There was a time when they used thermal glue, instead of "thermal interface material"--let me tell you--it took some serious leverage to pop the cpu then. I recently had to replace a fan on an old ati 8500 all-in-one and it...

to the best of my knowledge SMD Fuse means "surface mount device" fuse, which means it is integrated into the motherboard and therefore not a FRU (field replaceable unit) as for buying the part for $40--I don't know, the...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=146695

I would, of course, defer to the tech guy from sager--but I don't see a replaceable fuse next to the DC-in port --if it is integrated on the motherboard, that would necessitate a motherboard replacement, wouldn't it? As for not...

Great to hear--hopefully we caught it before any long-term damage--heat kills electrical components.

If you do remove the heatsink, don't even think about starting the laptop up until after you have cleaned and reapplied new heat compound. It literally takes less than 2 seconds for a CPU to pop without a heatsink.

Ahh, you didn't say that at first. First thing you should do is open that puppy up and blow the dust from the heatsink with compressed air...while doing this, though, use a pin to hold the fan blades in place--a cab of compressed air...