Thanks for all the helpful responses!

@lead_org: it spilled on the right side of the keyboard, so that may be why my laptop isn't toast.

So far, it's back to normal. I think it was just the keyboard, after all.

It seems that the system works fine, and I'm typing this message from it. However, the strange thing is whenever I plug in the power, it starts up by itself. Weird.

I accidentally spilled a cup of water over my X200s near the right side of the keyboard, which caused the system to shutdown immediately. I thought Thinkpads would be spill-proof, guess not. Anyways, I disconnected the battery and let it sit for an hour, then I carefully wiped the exterior and remov...

Estrogen: Yes I do use a variant of bb4win (bblean) and it's awesome. But it doesn't compare to your desktop. Holy *****Expletives removed by Moderator*****. I assume Litestep had a part in that. But that can't be all there is to it. What kind of resources does it use? yup that is litestep. I'm cur...

Here is my desktop now with 57.4% extra sexiness:

zmjjmz wrote:


Whoo I got LabVIEW running.

Is that bb4win? nice.

can't checkout anything at the moment. I have this cart saved, don't know if that will help at all

you are one of the lucky ones then. by the way, I still haven't gotten my T61p back yet and it has been over 3 weeks. How long does warranty repair usually take?

idle temperature is about 52 C, which is high but acceptable. however, under load (gaming, etc) it goes up to 98 C and then the frame rate stutters. it will randomly crash, or the system will standby or power off because of the heat. I told lenovo on the phone that this is the problem that I'm havin...

this is the exact reason why my T61p with the 570M is at the repair shop in Memphis right now, it overheats like no other mobile video card. I really do hope they replace my system planar..

sorry to double post but..

will it void my warranty if I used Arctic Silver 5?

I called them up and they said they'll send in the box soon. they're going to test it and possibly replace the planar, CPU, and/or heatsink.

here's my problem: The GPU overheats and causes video stuttering issues and also causes the laptop to shut down without any warning. The GPU temperature peaks at around 97 C. I have a one year warranty and I'm considering getting the planar replaced if possible. I've never dealt with Lenovo support ...

I seem to have alleviated this problem by applying more thermal grease so that the GPU makes full contact with the heatsink. It now peaks at 80 C

I have upgraded my stock Lenovo HDD with a 200GB Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 and I can confirm that APS does work.

I've modded my CPU and GPU with Arctic Silver 5, undervolted the CPU, and still the GPU overheats (in my opinion). Maybe I did something wrong with the thermal grease though.

When I reached 98 C GPU I had everything running at full speed. The CPU peaked at 78 C which is OK but I'm more worried about the GPU. I also have a 6459CTO.

Right now my CPU is idling at 36 C thanks to Arctic Silver 5, but GPU seems to be idling at 53 C.

My GPU peaks at about 98 C. I'm a little worried that it may be too high and shorten the lifespan of my laptop. Any ideas on how to lower it? I've already cleaned out my fan and applied arctic silver 5 on the GPU.

I tried looking up my T61p. I can't figure out which screen mine is. It's neither the Samsung nor LG FRU. my screen FRU is 42T0329 What I got seems OK to me except at 1920 X 1280 the icons and fonts are too small to be useable, so I changed it to 1280 X 1024. 1280x1024? not native resolution and not...

High performance and no heat is a combination that doesn't really match, but still i seen models from HP that is pretty quiet even if good performance/pretty high spec. The heat might not be what worry me most, but the noise. If pretty warm, but still quiet then it's fine, but usually heat means no...

wow thanks for the link

I will definitely be considering that option.

have to agree with the above posters, not a hot deal. I got my T61p for that price.

By default in Windows and Linux (I've tried each) the OS keeps parking and unparking the hard drive. This is very very bad for the drive because each time it does this it adds another cycle and it can only last 600,000 cycles (mine's at 760,000!). This leads to the drive failing prematurely, usually...

my bad. it is actually thinkpad button customiser. my memory isn't that great.
http://www.schlackman.org/programs/thinkpad.html

i'd be interested in how one would go about soldering and replacing a LED.

I'm surprised there aren't other threads about this. My hard drive should be dead by now because of all the excessive load cycles.

I found out that it is actually Windows XP that is causing my load cycle count to be so high, I have no idea why. When it idles I can audibly hear the hard drive head parking and unparking and it is very annoying. There is a script for linux that fixes this error, and I have no idea how to resolve i...

look at the load cycle count, it's 759584. under 600000 is considered safe. also there's a lot of "pre-fail" statuses. i've been running ubuntu linux and i didn't know that it aggressively parks the hard drive about 10 times a minute! need a replacement, preferably a 200gb 7200rpm drive. SMART Attri...

my T61 is going to be out of warranty in about 4 months. I'm not going to screw it up though.

have to agree with .nox, i want to make this my own t61p. i have a A31 which i modded thoroughly and i want to do the same with this one.

I've thought about various ways to modify my T61p for a while now and just thought I'd get ideas out. If you have any pics of a modded T61 please share! 1. Change LED colors The LED lights indicating power and wifi are green by default. it may be possible to change it to blue by placing a thin red t...

no, the BIOS doesn't support booting from SD card. i don't think it is possible to format a bootable SD card either. if you really want to use XP pro 32 bit you could use BartPE to create a live XP CD, or just install XP 32 bit on your hard drive.