Thinkpad repair?

[Gerry Hull]

I have three X61s and two X40s in my family... I love Thinkpads!

I have found ebay to be an excellent source of parts, for short money.   The
other day my nephew's X40 died; the battery would not charge even with a new
battery
and a good power supply.  So, I figured something had died on the
motherboard.  You can get X40 motherboards for about $10 on ebay, but it's a
lot of work to replace.
So, for $25 I bought an X40 with no display or any other parts... just the
motherboard, case and keyboard.   It took less than 45 minutes to take the
display off the bad
system and swap all the parts (memory, disk and WiFi board. )   The system
now works perfectly.


I typically buy X60 or X61 tablets... if you watch, you can get them for
about $250 on ebay.   The 1st thing I do is toss the hard drive and swap a
Segate 500Mb hybrid solid-state/7200rpm drive.
For $350 bucks, you have s smoking dual core laptop that blows away the junk
people are selling for $500-$1500 today.


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> I'm going to call this `on-topic' because there are so many
> Thinkpads in the Linux community--and because, since our
> software doesn't just spontaneously `rot', so many of us
> run them until the hardware just fails irreparably. So, I'm
> hoping someone can give me some helpful comments on getting
> my 4-year-old Thinkpad repaired....
>
> It's an X60 convertible tablet/laptop, and that precarious
> little multidimensional swivel-hinge just went `snap'
> in some way such that the screen is no longer self-supporting
> at any angle less than ~60 degrees.
>
> (and, while I'm at it, I guess I might look at fixing a few other
>  issues that have accumulated over the last couple of years:
>  broken palm-rest over the PC-card slot, broken HDD bay-cover,
>  no-longer-functional SD/etc. memory-card port...).
>
> Is there a local shop in/near Nashua to whom I should take this,
> or am I going to have to call Lenovo? Alternately, is it
> worthwhile to even consider just getting the parts and fixing
> the thing myself?
>
> --
> "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."
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