I have a thinkpad t410 runnig the lastest version of windows 10 pro with 8 GB of ram. It has been a beast considering its an 8 year old laptop. couldnt be more impressed. I also do not worry about dropping it. they are built like tanks
the ultrabay battery in the T60 is going to get used more than the original battery; it will wear out before the actual battery does. Keep this in mind when you get the battery and do look into that issue on the thinkpads.com forum and elsewhere. The password is stored on the EEPROM, yes, but you can't UV erase it. it's a small tiny serial ROM chip that needs to be replaced in order to remove the resolve the issue. You might be able to clear the password in Linux directly, but I doubt it, do check into that. as always, don't forget to turn off Computrace permanently on both the T410 (if you ever get into the BIOS) and the T60 if you haven't done so already. The one thing I don't like about the first-gen i3/5/7 Thinkpads is they run HOT. the heatsink is shared between the iGPU and the CPU on the same area of the contact area and that doesn't do anything good for thermals for either of them. if you do install Windows on this, make sure to get TPFanControl going. same on the T60.
Yeah, I was really surprised that they had designed the ultrabay battery to be 100% depleted before it switches over to the main battery. At this rate the ultrabay battery will probably only last for a year or so since I completely drain it on a daily basis (which is disappointing since they are kinda pricey). It seems that the T60 does not run too hot but the T410 definitely gets pretty toasty!
yep, so if you send it off with a copy of 7 or 10, be sure to get it going with tpfancontrol, the INI settings are pretty straightforward but ON manual speed 7 all the time seems to be the trick to keeping temps low.
Nice find! I love these older business-class machines. I've had an HP Elitebook 8460p myself for a while now and I love this thing (screen's not the greatest, but oh well). Someday I gotta get my hands on one of these Thinkpads, or even just another Elitebook. I can only dream about having an 8770w...
xtremeatly these older 5-8 year old thinkpad are amazing. my t500 has serviced me perfectly, there powerful, durable, and have a lot of great features.
They are extremely good but I'm not sure about doing animation on them. If your talking about 2D animation, that is totally possible, but 3D animation might be slow do too lack of GPU power. The CPU's in these laptops are faster than what you can get in a brand new laptop for the same price but the GPU's aren't too great. If you where to look for one of these, look one with dedicated graphics, like the Nvidia NVS 3100M graphics. Still crappy graphics but they might be faster than the Intel HD Graphics in these laptops.
Can't wait to see the teardown for the thermal compound. I have a W510 that I unsed for a while, but now it won't even complete a boot into Win7 without rebooting. The CPU/GPU heat are known issues on it, so I definitely want to get in there and clean them both off and put some new and better compound on. After that, I'll probably just pull the HD and throw and SSD in and install from scratch (it would sometimes boot into Safe Mode, but then even that failed, so an attempt at Repair failed over and over) to avoid any corruption issues. Which bay battery did you get for the T60? I have a bunch of T60/61/R60/61/W500s that could use one to swap between them as needed.
Ah man, I love these videos. I'm planning to buy a cheap computer under 20$, can be anything, desktop tablet etc. Got any recommendations? Also, the T60's seller shows 0 results.
Just picked up a T420 with the Nvidia 8 gigs of ram and an I5 for 30 bucks, Installed a Sata M2 and 2 other drives, A new battery and have a total of 90 bucks, runs windows 10 great.
how about the thinkpad X2xx tablet series do you like it , i personally love it, i own the x61t, x200t, x201t x220 and now recently the x230t all bought as old pcs , they never failed me though
holy crap you got a amazing deal on that t410 I spent £130 for mine with a i5 529m 4gb of ram it came with no dedicated gpu but it did come with the 1440 x 900 screens which are rare. but I did get a one off cpu that was not sold with the laptop a Intel core is 640m then I also buffed the ram to 8gb next year when it's my birthday in January I will be getting the parts for the quadro motherboard so I can player some casual games like rust legacy and minecraft at higher frames. I'm also getting a solid state drive for it for Christmas which will give new life to the laptop. in total I think it have spent well over £200 on it so I'm very shocked on how an earth you found that laptop pretty much maxed out for such a low price. great video btw!
My dad got 2 IBM T420's which are pretty much identical to the T410 as his has the same specs. These laptops are very easy to upgrade thanks to easy access to the board and are very cheap. They're usually around $180 for a refurbished one.
Think pads are awesome due to there high level of quality over other windows laptops, they are incredibly durable. For example, AA has a T60 which is 10 years old and its still usable in today. An other example, I have a high quality Dell Inspiron 15 7559. Its very powerful laptop but due to the build quality and the screen flex is so bad that a little pressure makes my keyboard mark the screen, I got a think pad x230 to throw into my back pack instead.
Yahya T. Think pads have always been amazing but they can be expansive and the screen quality fluctuated between models do you need to know what your looking for
when I was on the lenovo website downloading windows drivers I saw an iso for resetting hardware passwords. you may want to take a look. I got mine for 56 bucks after selling a weak 2015 ideapad for 55, so I basically paid shipping. I specced it out w 8gb ram(it's limited to pc3-10600), an i7 640m, Bluetooth 4.0, and a dual-band Intel 6300 WiFi. if you add the accessories I bought.. a dock, ultrabay caddy, ssd, HDD, USB 3.0 expresscard(I recommend this one highly) etc... I spent around $350 on it. Not a bad machine for the cost. I'm a bit jealous of your dedicated graphics mobo and 1440x900 screen. Mine was a T410i with integrated only and the lower res screen. I'm now dual booting Ubuntu MATE and Win 10 on separate drives. I was able to activate windows with the win 7 key on my machine, but it mostly sits unused in the ultrabay on an old 1tb drive I use for storage. The T410 is a solid machine at top spec. There's a whole playlist of videos about my process with it on my channel. I recommend getting the maintenance manual PDF, and the wifi, Bluetooth, and usb3 upgrades were cheap,($10-$15 each) easily done, and a nice improvement.
I bought the most amazing 12" X200 Thinkpad for £75 on ebay. It has Windows 7 Pro (activated). I wasn't expecting much, but it's great as a writing laptop. Has a great keyboard (no chiclet keys and nice travel and bounce) and I've managed to put all my writing programs on it: Scrivener, The Novel Factory, FocusWriter, Word XP (I've even put the Office Assistants back on) etc. I won't let it connect to the internet without a lot of trouble (resetting the router, sitting directly next to the router because I use homeplugs, not wifi). Hence, no distracting youtube. If I want that I have to change computers! For £75!!!
Yep, years ago I ran into the SVP problem. Back then, the only option was an overpriced programmer from ebay or having the hardware (bus pirate) to dump the info off the ATMEL 24RF08 and neither was practical (not worth the money) at the time. Now that we live in the age of Arduino and other cheap microcontrollers, I'm sure there's far cheaper (and simpler) ways to reset that password. I bet even the programmers that were expensive back in the day are probably dirt cheap by now. Nice laptop, good video. I can't believe you haven't removed that sticker off the T60!
Yeah, If I really find myself needing to get into the BIOS I may try desoldering the eeprom and messing around with it but at this moment in time I really do not have the need to. Haha, the sticker seals in the freshness :p
The Arduino method I linked just before your reply doesn't seem to require desoldering. Of course, unless you're already working with Arduino, it may not be any easier if you need to buy one and the supplies and learn how to use it, but I'm sure you could find someone already into it that could help locally. Only if you need to ;)
the old 1st gen I7 is no match for i3 4000m. I'd suggest buying at least a 2nd generation core processor. The first generations are beasts at power consumption, especially i7
Very professional videos. Wow. I have a think pad and I want to get back to using it. I know absolutely nothing about it. I bought it from a guy on Craigslist. I want to take a class on learning more about computers and maneuvering around them. I wish you were my teacher. You have quite a bit of knowledge about computers
The Nvidia Quadro 3100M is really nice. My T410 has switchable graphics which lets you chose between Intel graphics media accelerator 5700MHD or the Nvidia GPU or using the Nvidia optimus mode where the Nvidia graphics only kicks in for 3D performance and Intel graphics runs most of the time. I could play "Half Life 2" and "Amnesia" really well under Linux with it. So you can definitely play games with it too that are a bit older. Sadly Optimus mode only works under windows at the time i was using my T410 for that while under Linux you gotta set it manually. Not sure if that was fixed later.
I have the 15" version of this AKA the T510 Edit 5 months in: I've been using this as my daily driver since around the time I made this comment and it's a really good laptop and it's held up to my abuse. Recently upgraded storage to a 500GB crucial BX100 SSD and now my already amazing laptop boots really hecking fast
Found an i5 T410 at a thrift shop for $15, which was a nice score in my opinion cause it makes a great travel laptop! It's got a bit of wear (normal wear and tear) and it had everything it needed to run!
Wouldn't taking the cmos battery out from inside the laptop and the main battery out and letting it sit for awhile before putting them back in clear the bios password? ( Watched more of the video and realized you tried that. Never mind)
what is the part number on the eeprom? you should be able to find the pin out of it online and if you short out the right 2 pins it will reset the eeprom to factory.
Hello, I'm planning on learning how to program and how to use linux os but I currently don't have a computer or laptop. It would be awesome if you could help me find a budget laptop like the T60 you got. Under $50 would be good. Thank you so much!
These things aren't bad, I'm using a T510, best keyboard on any laptop I've ever owned. Though don't give these too much credit. The T400 and T500 series ThinkPads have a CPU issue that causes a high pitched noise to be emitted from the CPU. Mine has that problem, it's headache inducing but for some reason it only happens when I use Windows. Using a CPU loader reduces the sound but that just slows everything down. Moved over to Xubuntu and problem solved.
If the EPROM is in a ZIF socket you can replace it or if the Rom has a small window on it THEN you can use UV to erase the chip. but be aware it could also hold a part of the BIOS that accesses the main part of the BIOS.
You should be able to pull the CMOS battery to reset the BIOS password I remember doing it alot on T60s through W500s/T400s at work can't remember if I tried it on a T410
I must have gotten confused with some even older hardware like the T42s and T40's I'd work on, back in the DDR/Pentium M days. I'll drag my W500 out and see if It works when I pull the battery
Ultimate project would be to retrofit your t60 with an i7 fan-made motherboard. I revived my x61 for another decade of use (I'm hoping!) with a motherboard swap. I got tired of waiting for Lenovo to provide a proper revival to the old *60 laptops.
Depends on the type of game, I have a quadro 140M in my thinkpad t61 and I can play lighter games, garry's mod runs fine, minecraft is good, just dont expect to play GTA V or anything like that. GTA SA works fine though
+Zack The Doggy I had a friend with a Quadro 340 in his desktop and it was slower than a GT 610 and he wasnt even able to play minecraft at over 30 fps at lowest possible... How did you do that?
Several problems (or design flaws) with the T410/420.series. First Lenovo gimped the SATA bus limiting it to SATA 1 when natively it should be SATA2. Second the installed a Display Port out instead of HDMI out which would have been much more useful. The intended market would be considerably more likely to need to connect to a TV over HDMI than a display port so the traveller needed to carry an adapter. Thirdly, instead of separate headphone and mic jacks they used a convoluted multi jack with was very unreliable. Again it required a special, hard to find, and expensive adapter to use both at the same time or to use the port as an imput. It also wouldn't recognize inputs like a mic or line in automatically or even remember one so you were forced to go thru a lengthy and complicated process to get it to work. They also had a lot of problems with the cpu fans failing. These are some of the reasons why I bought a new screen for my old Toshiba Satellite A305 to replace my T410
I did not know that the SATA interface was limited to SATA I speeds. I will have to do some more research on that, that is interesting. The only thing that you mentioned which I really do not like is the fact that they went with display port. I agree with you 100%, HDMI would have been the more pragmatic choice, especially for a business / work class laptop. The multi-jack is annoying but not really an issue since my sister does not use headphones / microphones. However, I am actually rethinking buying a T420 in the future because of that. My line of work requires that I have a dedicated Microphone and Headphone jack. I guess I could just go with a USB sound card if it really comes down to it but I would prefer that the system have dedicated integrated jacks. Thanks for the insight!
I´ve got an Acer Aspire 7720Z for free because the graphics card wasn´t working anymore and you know what? I´ve put the geforce 8400m gs into the oven for like 20 minutes at 130° and it worked again!!! So far so good but i changed it to a 9600m gs so i can play a bit of games... It also has a higher resolution screen with 1440:900 and looks like new! The rest of it is a core 2 duo, a 500gb seagate drive with surprisingly fast write and read speeds with like 130MB/s and a Core 2 Duo.
I had one of these! It was my second Thinkpad, after my T61p. Not a bad laptop, but I remember the speaker grilles filling up with little flecks of random stuff and being impossible to clean. One speaker grille eventually just gave up and fell off one day, I guess the laptop got too hot and the adhesive lost contact with the chassis. @~@; Now I've got a T440p and I love it. Also got an X220t I use for art but that stays in the closet most of the time. Still got my T61p but I was letting a family member borrow it and they blew up the graphics card playing some garbage MMORPG. :C
Nope. If it's anything like pretty much every computer out there now, the password will be persistent across BIOS flashes. Really the only way he could get rid of it would be a mainboard replacement.
tmcclelland47 you CAN buy a flasher, and google the chip and flash it. But i don't recommend to try, i tried it with my acer and it didnt end well. (it had a corrupted bios)
A) At the risk of sounding like Capt. Obvious .. could you contact the seller and simpily ask them if they know the PW? ... they may say "oh yeah .. I forgot that. .. the password is " B) Maybe its the Linux fan in me but is there any chance you could dualboot? ... I mean with that amount of space, your sister could have Windows when she needs it but a simple reboot and menu selection (grub of course) and she can have the chance to see what Linux is like (I will leave my Ubuntu .. mainly Unity opinions out of this, at the moment, lol)
The seller knew about the supervisor password because It was listed as having one in the product description. They do not know the supervisor password unfortunately. Knowing my sister, I am pretty sure a dual boot configuration would just be a waste as she would never use the Linux partition :| . Thanks for the suggestions!
i bought a lenovo 410 for parts on ebay. it booted to bios and had a fan error i sprayed electronics duster in the fan port and spun the fan and rebooted it and it works fine. cloned the hard drive from my other t410 with linux mint 20.1 and put it in the 'parts only t410 and now i have to buy another t410 for parts as the first t410 works just fine and i am posting this from it.
That's what I thought when I discovered my second hand ThinkPad T61 had such a password. But these laptops actually use a separate chip to store that password, so that won't help.
Not on Thinkpads. There is no way to remove them without the original password. One of the reasons they are so cherished for business use as the password can't be defeated and you only have 3 unsuccessful attempts in a row before you are locked out permanently. That's one of the reasons I didn't buy this when I saw it listed. That and what I mentioned in my previous comment about the serious design flaws it has.
Really? You must not be looking correctly. If you search "Refurbished thinkpad", you'll find them cheaper. I've seen some for $17. I just purchased an upgraded/usable one for $130
i want to make a new pc next year so right now i looking for a case so i found this one Corsair Carbide Air 740 i want a case stand out from others i don't really burn stuff anymore or used to DVD drive
I paid 67 dollars recently for a dell latitude e6410 which is bassically the dell equivalant of the t410 because it has the same quadro 3100m and an i5 520m.
It seemed to work fine and it also came with a bios password that stopped me from selecting a boot device, so I pulled out my dell latitude e6400 (the older model in the series) and popped in a 500gb hdd and installed Windows 7 64 bit. Since both models had bassically the same exact bios I was able to swap it back into the e6410 and it works fine.
In my opinion Dell Latitudes are mor durable and better built than the thinkpads, (especially the D-Series Laptops) but they went down hill when the Dell Latitude Exx20 series hit he market. I concider the E6410 the last true Dell Latitude because of its look and build quality, nothing can beat a Pannisonic Tough Book line of computers.
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I have a thinkpad t410 runnig the lastest version of windows 10 pro with 8 GB of ram. It has been a beast considering its an 8 year old laptop. couldnt be more impressed. I also do not worry about dropping it. they are built like tanks
Christopher Blake were there any Windows 10 drivers for T410?
@@Windows7Pro2009 that I'm not sure of.
Wow! And I was going to buy a refurbished T430 with a Core i5 for like £230! freakin hell...
TruckSimz ebay time right?
finally, a new vid. always look forward to watching these finds especially
the ultrabay battery in the T60 is going to get used more than the original battery; it will wear out before the actual battery does. Keep this in mind when you get the battery and do look into that issue on the thinkpads.com forum and elsewhere.
The password is stored on the EEPROM, yes, but you can't UV erase it. it's a small tiny serial ROM chip that needs to be replaced in order to remove the resolve the issue. You might be able to clear the password in Linux directly, but I doubt it, do check into that. as always, don't forget to turn off Computrace permanently on both the T410 (if you ever get into the BIOS) and the T60 if you haven't done so already.
The one thing I don't like about the first-gen i3/5/7 Thinkpads is they run HOT. the heatsink is shared between the iGPU and the CPU on the same area of the contact area and that doesn't do anything good for thermals for either of them. if you do install Windows on this, make sure to get TPFanControl going. same on the T60.
Yeah, I was really surprised that they had designed the ultrabay battery to be 100% depleted before it switches over to the main battery. At this rate the ultrabay battery will probably only last for a year or so since I completely drain it on a daily basis (which is disappointing since they are kinda pricey). It seems that the T60 does not run too hot but the T410 definitely gets pretty toasty!
yep, so if you send it off with a copy of 7 or 10, be sure to get it going with tpfancontrol, the INI settings are pretty straightforward but ON manual speed 7 all the time seems to be the trick to keeping temps low.
this is why I want one of those, they're extremely modular
Well for an i7, it's worth it. Over here they are worth 200$ used, and that for a 1st gen.
Sky what's the screen aspect ratio of the 410? Is the t60/t61/x61 the last 4:3 laptops?
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well, they aren't worth it because they are pretty slow.
No. The i7s are literally no different from the mobile i5s of that time and desktop i3s. 2 cores and 4 threads.
@@matemana1991 Exactly.
Hey, would you suggest upgrading the same laptop as your sister s with more ram and an ssd or going with a system like this?
Nice find! I love these older business-class machines. I've had an HP Elitebook 8460p myself for a while now and I love this thing (screen's not the greatest, but oh well). Someday I gotta get my hands on one of these Thinkpads, or even just another Elitebook.
I can only dream about having an 8770w...
got me a Dell Latitude e6400 business laptop and it is sweet fast w/ SSD
@tangel476 same here, My latitude e6400 has a samsung PM800 ssd and 4gb ram. It's lightning fast!
may I ask. did u think these thinkpad laptops like t60,t410,t400 are good? and did these laptop good for animation thingy? pls answer me. 🙏
xtremeatly these older 5-8 year old thinkpad are amazing. my t500 has serviced me perfectly, there powerful, durable, and have a lot of great features.
They are extremely good but I'm not sure about doing animation on them. If your talking about 2D animation, that is totally possible, but 3D animation might be slow do too lack of GPU power. The CPU's in these laptops are faster than what you can get in a brand new laptop for the same price but the GPU's aren't too great. If you where to look for one of these, look one with dedicated graphics, like the Nvidia NVS 3100M graphics. Still crappy graphics but they might be faster than the Intel HD Graphics in these laptops.
"I payed a littlebit more than I would've liked to" I would be so goddamn happy if there were one around me under £300...
Can't wait to see the teardown for the thermal compound. I have a W510 that I unsed for a while, but now it won't even complete a boot into Win7 without rebooting. The CPU/GPU heat are known issues on it, so I definitely want to get in there and clean them both off and put some new and better compound on. After that, I'll probably just pull the HD and throw and SSD in and install from scratch (it would sometimes boot into Safe Mode, but then even that failed, so an attempt at Repair failed over and over) to avoid any corruption issues.
Which bay battery did you get for the T60? I have a bunch of T60/61/R60/61/W500s that could use one to swap between them as needed.
Inxi is pretty good for getting the system specifications in a nice and presentable way in the terminal, the command is "inxi -F".
Ah man, I love these videos. I'm planning to buy a cheap computer under 20$, can be anything, desktop tablet etc. Got any recommendations? Also, the T60's seller shows 0 results.
Just picked up a T420 with the Nvidia 8 gigs of ram and an I5 for 30 bucks, Installed a Sata M2 and 2 other drives, A new battery and have a total of 90 bucks, runs windows 10 great.
This is definitly better than the other laptops you got
Cool cool, but if I may ask... why do you like Ubuntu?
Ive always wondered.. what is the red button in the middle of the keyboard??
We use it for mouse, minus it can't click.
how about the thinkpad X2xx tablet series do you like it , i personally love it, i own the x61t, x200t, x201t x220 and now recently the x230t all bought as old pcs , they never failed me though
holy crap you got a amazing deal on that t410 I spent £130 for mine with a i5 529m 4gb of ram it came with no dedicated gpu but it did come with the 1440 x 900 screens which are rare. but I did get a one off cpu that was not sold with the laptop a Intel core is 640m then I also buffed the ram to 8gb next year when it's my birthday in January I will be getting the parts for the quadro motherboard so I can player some casual games like rust legacy and minecraft at higher frames. I'm also getting a solid state drive for it for Christmas which will give new life to the laptop. in total I think it have spent well over £200 on it so I'm very shocked on how an earth you found that laptop pretty much maxed out for such a low price.
great video btw!
My dad got 2 IBM T420's which are pretty much identical to the T410 as his has the same specs. These laptops are very easy to upgrade thanks to easy access to the board and are very cheap. They're usually around $180 for a refurbished one.
I just got a X230, its a great secondary computer, once I upgrade the screen I can see my self using it as my primary for lot of tasks
Cool!
Also, before I decided on the X230, I was almost set on the T420, it is a great machine.
Btw why is there so much hype around lenovo and ibm thinkpads? and why do you like them personally?
Think pads are awesome due to there high level of quality over other windows laptops, they are incredibly durable. For example, AA has a T60 which is 10 years old and its still usable in today. An other example, I have a high quality Dell Inspiron 15 7559. Its very powerful laptop but due to the build quality and the screen flex is so bad that a little pressure makes my keyboard mark the screen, I got a think pad x230 to throw into my back pack instead.
^^ This guy knows
ahh alright cool :)
Yahya T. Think pads have always been amazing but they can be expansive and the screen quality fluctuated between models do you need to know what your looking for
Alright cool... i dont know yet.. im not really a fan of the lenovo pc's they just feel old... Ehh idk...
What do you do with all these laptops. ??
Do you sell it.. ?? I wanna buy one thinkpad. If u happen to sell one i would be interested in buying one.
did you try to remove the coin battery for 1 minute? in a laptop bought for me on ebay it works (sorry for my bad english)
when I was on the lenovo website downloading windows drivers I saw an iso for resetting hardware passwords. you may want to take a look. I got mine for 56 bucks after selling a weak 2015 ideapad for 55, so I basically paid shipping. I specced it out w 8gb ram(it's limited to pc3-10600), an i7 640m, Bluetooth 4.0, and a dual-band Intel 6300 WiFi. if you add the accessories I bought.. a dock, ultrabay caddy, ssd, HDD, USB 3.0 expresscard(I recommend this one highly) etc... I spent around $350 on it.
Not a bad machine for the cost. I'm a bit jealous of your dedicated graphics mobo and 1440x900 screen. Mine was a T410i with integrated only and the lower res screen. I'm now dual booting Ubuntu MATE and Win 10 on separate drives. I was able to activate windows with the win 7 key on my machine, but it mostly sits unused in the ultrabay on an old 1tb drive I use for storage.
The T410 is a solid machine at top spec. There's a whole playlist of videos about my process with it on my channel. I recommend getting the maintenance manual PDF, and the wifi, Bluetooth, and usb3 upgrades were cheap,($10-$15 each) easily done, and a nice improvement.
I bought the most amazing 12" X200 Thinkpad for £75 on ebay. It has Windows 7 Pro (activated). I wasn't expecting much, but it's great as a writing laptop.
Has a great keyboard (no chiclet keys and nice travel and bounce) and I've managed to put all my writing programs on it: Scrivener, The Novel Factory, FocusWriter, Word XP (I've even put the Office Assistants back on) etc.
I won't let it connect to the internet without a lot of trouble (resetting the router, sitting directly next to the router because I use homeplugs, not wifi). Hence, no distracting youtube. If I want that I have to change computers!
For £75!!!
Yep, years ago I ran into the SVP problem. Back then, the only option was an overpriced programmer from ebay or having the hardware (bus pirate) to dump the info off the ATMEL 24RF08 and neither was practical (not worth the money) at the time. Now that we live in the age of Arduino and other cheap microcontrollers, I'm sure there's far cheaper (and simpler) ways to reset that password. I bet even the programmers that were expensive back in the day are probably dirt cheap by now. Nice laptop, good video. I can't believe you haven't removed that sticker off the T60!
... and a quick search... Arduinos are amazing.
forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=160222.0
Yeah, If I really find myself needing to get into the BIOS I may try desoldering the eeprom and messing around with it but at this moment in time I really do not have the need to. Haha, the sticker seals in the freshness :p
The Arduino method I linked just before your reply doesn't seem to require desoldering. Of course, unless you're already working with Arduino, it may not be any easier if you need to buy one and the supplies and learn how to use it, but I'm sure you could find someone already into it that could help locally. Only if you need to ;)
Hi! What is the best way to clean the surface, keyboard and touchpad of a thinkpad? Thanks
i just gave one of these to my mother windows 7 runs really well on it
1st gen mobile i7? I'd say you could've gotten that a little bit cheaper, considering that it did not come with a hard drive or dvd drive.
How does the core i7 in this laptop compare to a core i3 4000m? I'm curious to see if this laptop is better than my current HP laptop.
the old 1st gen I7 is no match for i3 4000m. I'd suggest buying at least a 2nd generation core processor. The first generations are beasts at power consumption, especially i7
Very professional videos. Wow. I have a think pad and I want to get back to using it. I know absolutely nothing about it. I bought it from a guy on Craigslist. I want to take a class on learning more about computers and maneuvering around them. I wish you were my teacher. You have quite a bit of knowledge about computers
There *IS* a retro thinkpad now, the Thinkpad 25, which was released just 3 days ago.
Unfortunately,that is a steaming pile of shit.
The Nvidia Quadro 3100M is really nice. My T410 has switchable graphics which lets you chose between Intel graphics media accelerator 5700MHD or the Nvidia GPU or using the Nvidia optimus mode where the Nvidia graphics only kicks in for 3D performance and Intel graphics runs most of the time. I could play "Half Life 2" and "Amnesia" really well under Linux with it. So you can definitely play games with it too that are a bit older. Sadly Optimus mode only works under windows at the time i was using my T410 for that while under Linux you gotta set it manually. Not sure if that was fixed later.
No shutdown issues? My t410 used to end up always crash on boot up
I have the 15" version of this AKA the T510
Edit 5 months in: I've been using this as my daily driver since around the time I made this comment and it's a really good laptop and it's held up to my abuse. Recently upgraded storage to a 500GB crucial BX100 SSD and now my already amazing laptop boots really hecking fast
What is ghe website you are using to check Thinkpad specs ?
Found an i5 T410 at a thrift shop for $15, which was a nice score in my opinion cause it makes a great travel laptop! It's got a bit of wear (normal wear and tear) and it had everything it needed to run!
can't you remove to CMOS battery to be erase that password?
Wouldn't taking the cmos battery out from inside the laptop and the main battery out and letting it sit for awhile before putting them back in clear the bios password? ( Watched more of the video and realized you tried that. Never mind)
what is the part number on the eeprom? you should be able to find the pin out of it online and if you short out the right 2 pins it will reset the eeprom to factory.
very good deal! Durable and reliable computer for work
Hello, I'm planning on learning how to program and how to use linux os but I currently don't have a computer or laptop. It would be awesome if you could help me find a budget laptop like the T60 you got. Under $50 would be good. Thank you so much!
I paid $100 for my t410 on ebay and its the base model (core i5 m520 and integrated graphics) so you really got a good deal
cant find any deals for decent x220t you found a steal
These things aren't bad, I'm using a T510, best keyboard on any laptop I've ever owned. Though don't give these too much credit. The T400 and T500 series ThinkPads have a CPU issue that causes a high pitched noise to be emitted from the CPU. Mine has that problem, it's headache inducing but for some reason it only happens when I use Windows. Using a CPU loader reduces the sound but that just slows everything down. Moved over to Xubuntu and problem solved.
Have you removed the battery for the bios for 25 min.
Do you know what kind of SSD would work with a lenovo T500?
there will be two solder points on the motherboard near the ram where you hold a flathead screw driver and turn it on and it should wipe the password
If the EPROM is in a ZIF socket you can replace it or if the Rom has a small window on it THEN you can use UV to erase the chip. but be aware it could also hold a part of the BIOS that accesses the main part of the BIOS.
Is there going to be a Subscriber update for Dec. ?
I HAVE THINKPAD T420 BLAZE IT
shit caps lock on
i realy have T420
*insert meme*
You should be able to pull the CMOS battery to reset the BIOS password I remember doing it alot on T60s through W500s/T400s at work can't remember if I tried it on a T410
I must have gotten confused with some even older hardware like the T42s and T40's I'd work on, back in the DDR/Pentium M days. I'll drag my W500 out and see if It works when I pull the battery
I need to get new battery for my 410 i5 I am only getting little over hour on low to med brightness what's best battery has best battery life
You had a great deal. I wish in few months buy one from ebay. You could try removing bios password using hiren's boot.
pulling the CMOS battery cleared the password on my x301
Ultimate project would be to retrofit your t60 with an i7 fan-made motherboard. I revived my x61 for another decade of use (I'm hoping!) with a motherboard swap. I got tired of waiting for Lenovo to provide a proper revival to the old *60 laptops.
There was so much shit on that key board and lid of the laptop when he was talking about how clean it was lol.
not bad you just showed up in my stream so I checked your nice job bro.
Daaaammmnn those i7 Quadro versions are good
How many laptops does your sister have? Or how many sisters do you have instead?
are you going to put windows on it?
why not replace the cmos battery? isint going to be wiped when the battery is removed
oh nvm
is that quadro (or any cheap old quadro/radeon pro) capable of gaming?
Nope they aren´t i would look out for like a GeForce 9600m GT or something like that instead.
Depends on the type of game, I have a quadro 140M in my thinkpad t61 and I can play lighter games, garry's mod runs fine, minecraft is good, just dont expect to play GTA V or anything like that. GTA SA works fine though
+Zack The Doggy I had a friend with a Quadro 340 in his desktop and it was slower than a GT 610 and he wasnt even able to play minecraft at over 30 fps at lowest possible... How did you do that?
Several problems (or design flaws) with the T410/420.series. First Lenovo gimped the SATA bus limiting it to SATA 1 when natively it should be SATA2. Second the installed a Display Port out instead of HDMI out which would have been much more useful. The intended market would be considerably more likely to need to connect to a TV over HDMI than a display port so the traveller needed to carry an adapter. Thirdly, instead of separate headphone and mic jacks they used a convoluted multi jack with was very unreliable. Again it required a special, hard to find, and expensive adapter to use both at the same time or to use the port as an imput. It also wouldn't recognize inputs like a mic or line in automatically or even remember one so you were forced to go thru a lengthy and complicated process to get it to work. They also had a lot of problems with the cpu fans failing. These are some of the reasons why I bought a new screen for my old Toshiba Satellite A305 to replace my T410
I did not know that the SATA interface was limited to SATA I speeds. I will have to do some more research on that, that is interesting. The only thing that you mentioned which I really do not like is the fact that they went with display port. I agree with you 100%, HDMI would have been the more pragmatic choice, especially for a business / work class laptop. The multi-jack is annoying but not really an issue since my sister does not use headphones / microphones. However, I am actually rethinking buying a T420 in the future because of that. My line of work requires that I have a dedicated Microphone and Headphone jack. I guess I could just go with a USB sound card if it really comes down to it but I would prefer that the system have dedicated integrated jacks. Thanks for the insight!
I´ve got an Acer Aspire 7720Z for free because the graphics card wasn´t working anymore and you know what? I´ve put the geforce 8400m gs into the oven for like 20 minutes at 130° and it worked again!!! So far so good but i changed it to a 9600m gs so i can play a bit of games... It also has a higher resolution screen with 1440:900 and looks like new! The rest of it is a core 2 duo, a 500gb seagate drive with surprisingly fast write and read speeds with like 130MB/s and a Core 2 Duo.
2018 and i still use T60 with SSD and maxed ram, win 10, office 2016 and still better then most of other laptops my friends use. :DDD
Can u suggest me a laptop for normal day to day uses
my personal mlaptop , never a problem !
I had one of these! It was my second Thinkpad, after my T61p. Not a bad laptop, but I remember the speaker grilles filling up with little flecks of random stuff and being impossible to clean. One speaker grille eventually just gave up and fell off one day, I guess the laptop got too hot and the adhesive lost contact with the chassis. @~@;
Now I've got a T440p and I love it. Also got an X220t I use for art but that stays in the closet most of the time. Still got my T61p but I was letting a family member borrow it and they blew up the graphics card playing some garbage MMORPG. :C
how'd you find it with a quadro? i cant find any.
It's much easier to find the motherboard for it, if you search for the T410 motherboad with Q M10 tag.
that is my exact Laptop. I use Ubuntu as well. skinned out to look like MacOS.
why tho ubuntu is pretty
is there any way that you could bypass the password eg by resetting or flashing a newone over?
Nope. If it's anything like pretty much every computer out there now, the password will be persistent across BIOS flashes. Really the only way he could get rid of it would be a mainboard replacement.
tmcclelland47 you CAN buy a flasher, and google the chip and flash it. But i don't recommend to try, i tried it with my acer and it didnt end well. (it had a corrupted bios)
Alvis Gwa take out the bios battery for a bit then put it back in
Could you talk about the Sony Vaio F Series?
A) At the risk of sounding like Capt. Obvious .. could you contact the seller and simpily ask them if they know the PW? ... they may say "oh yeah .. I forgot that. .. the password is "
B) Maybe its the Linux fan in me but is there any chance you could dualboot? ... I mean with that amount of space, your sister could have Windows when she needs it but a simple reboot and menu selection (grub of course) and she can have the chance to see what Linux is like (I will leave my Ubuntu .. mainly Unity opinions out of this, at the moment, lol)
The seller knew about the supervisor password because It was listed as having one in the product description. They do not know the supervisor password unfortunately. Knowing my sister, I am pretty sure a dual boot configuration would just be a waste as she would never use the Linux partition :| . Thanks for the suggestions!
I recommend the T420 but the T410 also looks really nice
i bought a lenovo 410 for parts on ebay. it booted to bios and had a fan error
i sprayed electronics duster in the fan port and spun the fan and rebooted it and it works fine.
cloned the hard drive from my other t410 with linux mint 20.1 and put it in the 'parts only t410 and now i have to buy another t410 for parts as the first t410 works just fine and i am posting this from it.
don't forget to put the intel and windows stickers!
You can remove the supervisor password by reseting the bios chip
if you remove the bios battery the password is gone
Mauriceje YT CMOS*
That's what I thought when I discovered my second hand ThinkPad T61 had such a password. But these laptops actually use a separate chip to store that password, so that won't help.
Not on Thinkpads. There is no way to remove them without the original password. One of the reasons they are so cherished for business use as the password can't be defeated and you only have 3 unsuccessful attempts in a row before you are locked out permanently. That's one of the reasons I didn't buy this when I saw it listed. That and what I mentioned in my previous comment about the serious design flaws it has.
+hong chow That doesn't work on the T series.
Instructions unclear typed gone in the password prompt and got an error message.
You should really show the gaming performance, and see if you should buy the computer (: Just a recommendation.
flash the BIOS?
How do you americans find cheap laptops any way? every time I got to the american ebay I only see people putting these things for 200+ .
Really? You must not be looking correctly. If you search "Refurbished thinkpad", you'll find them cheaper. I've seen some for $17. I just purchased an upgraded/usable one for $130
how can i get this much chip price?
the question is can it game?
oh I just love this videos!
+Mauriceje YT you are right but you need to wait 3-5 minutes without the cmos battery for password to be gone.
That has the same specs almost as my MacBook Pro 2010 15" :) except mine has a GT 330M
try a progarm called kill cmos it should wipe the password and reset all the bios settings to stock settings
i want to make a new pc next year so right now i looking for a case so i found this one Corsair Carbide Air 740 i want a case stand out from others i don't really burn stuff anymore or used to DVD drive
wow $65 , its cost $165 in my country :'(
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I NEED one of these.
But can it run crysis?
if you dont use wifi just uninstall that wifi card and buy a adapter and i think a 750 TI/950 can hold it up and then you get a Gaming machine
I paid 67 dollars recently for a dell latitude e6410 which is bassically the dell equivalant of the t410 because it has the same quadro 3100m and an i5 520m.
It seemed to work fine and it also came with a bios password that stopped me from selecting a boot device, so I pulled out my dell latitude e6400 (the older model in the series) and popped in a 500gb hdd and installed Windows 7 64 bit. Since both models had bassically the same exact bios I was able to swap it back into the e6410 and it works fine.
In my opinion Dell Latitudes are mor durable and better built than the thinkpads, (especially the D-Series Laptops) but they went down hill when the Dell Latitude Exx20 series hit he market. I concider the E6410 the last true Dell Latitude because of its look and build quality, nothing can beat a Pannisonic Tough Book line of computers.
the t410 is pretty good for what u paid ....i have atleast $ 160 for a good thinkpad like the t410..
The day the CMOS battery goes dead ... unfortunately that laptop will become a nice brick without the administrative password.
I liove my t410 :) got it on ebay auction for 20$ 15$ shipping
My t60 is the best tho
just flash a bios update, that should get rid of it, if there isnt one flash the current version. Otherwise coreboot is an option
www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/t420