[ltp] Re: Searching for an old IBM warhorse

[Glenn Hollowell]

Last year I did two things that got me thinking differently about
laptops, 
1) my wife's T21 developed a problem where 10 minutes or so after
bootup, it would abruptly lock-up with no consistent initiator between
events. I ended up, (after swapping out hard drives, memory etc),
deciding that the problem was related to the motherboard. So before
ordering a new T21 motherboard, I decided to remove and then reinstall
the old motherboard to confirm that I was capable of performing this
kind of surgery. I did this, as well as removing and reseating the
Pentium3 processor on the motherboard. Amazingly, doing this was enough
to correct the problem: no new motherboard was required.
2) I pulled the processor, motherboard and other assorted obsolete
innards from my old (circa 1997) Quantex Pentium 2 desktop computer and
replaced these with a new ASUS board and a 64-bit AMD Athlon processor.
Whoa. Now this "old warhorse" is the fastest machine in the office.

This brings me to the point of my posting: what are the standards for
motherboards and hardware in IBM laptops? There are several
manufacturers of Athlon laptop motherboards: is there any possibility
with swapping one of these into a classic Thinkpad housing? Obviously
there are power, video and peripheral geometry issues that could prove
to be show stoppers to producing any kind of a useful end product
without major tweakage and reengineering. Is anyone here aware of
hardware modifications such as this that have been done to other
laptops? 

Thanks.

Glenn
> 
> Message: 15
> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:04:35 +0100
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Searching for an old IBM warhorse
> From: "Macskasi Csaba" <bitumen@tuxworld.homelinux.org>
> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> 
> On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:52:22 +0100, Nigel Wilkinson <nigel@waspz.co.uk>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:42:42 +0100
> > "Macskasi Csaba" <bitumen@tuxworld.homelinux.org> wrote:
> >
> >> The r50e is the best piece of electronics I coult ever imagine.
> >> Imho it does not matter what machine you choose as long as it is a
> >> t-series-model. (because of the titanium cover ;-)
> > Just out of curiosity, if T series are the best why do you rate the
> > R50e.
> That's because the only thinkpad I own is an R50e ;-)
> However, compared to non ibm notebooks it's heaven...
> 
> 
> > I could be showing my ignorance here:)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Nigel
> 
> 
> 
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