http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26747 <pre>I've been happily using the same 160 GB drive SAMSUNG HM160HC in an X32 for some years now. I guess it was one of the early batches!? I should be backing up regularly, but also planning to replace it before it fails. Therefore following this thread with interest. It isn't making any funny noises, which is more than I can say for the CPU fan .... A separate thread might be a discussion of SSD devices in older Thinkpads. I've tried a couple of different routes in the really old 701C, both failed, and am wondering if anybody has every got a SS device to work as the main hard drive of the 701C or similar Thinkpad. And of course I'm interested in the performance and longevity of an SSD device under XP in an X32. In article &lt;8CF0738F03C057E-16DC-1460-n3SY6/QrmYVUPFJYTB4MtbQXJ8qk6zCwQQ4Iyu8u01E&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, you wrote: </pre> Jonathan Berry 2012-05-24T13:02:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26746 <pre>Lo, At 23:39 23/05/2012, you wrote: oh pants, exactly what i didn't want to hear. MS office 2010 has been the most difficult piece of software that i have ever come across to get working with activation. I certainly would not recommend anyone buy it. Except it doesn't un install properly. Even with the office un installer and running MS fix it solution application. Utter nightmare getting rid of the trial version to be able to get the bought version to activate. Ok thanks I will try that first. and any other suggestions before i spend hours messing about with crap MS uinstalling reinstalling voodoo. Its for an ECDL level 2 course so unfortunately i have to use it. Before this course i was happy with an old version of open office. thanks for the reply Martin N Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups </pre> Martin N 2012-05-23T22:59:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26745 <pre> Sorry to say this, but you need to uninstall, reboot, install, reboot, apply all the patches. The reboots prevent some weird little problems. I have debugged a problem with Office 2003 and Word, and I wasted at least 40 hours on that. Tearing the damned thing out and reinstalling it is the only reasonable thing to do. You said you hadn't done any updates since Christmas. Bad move. This means you have a not-completely-patched Office with presumably patched Windows, which I am now seeing as a new problem for some of my users. Want to know the best solution to this? Get LibreOffice. I have three friends who have completely abandoned Office in favor of that. But if you must run Office do the right thing and reinstall completely, and then enter Patch Purgatory. Sorry! --STeve Andre' Windows Disease Control Warden </pre> STeve Andre' 2012-05-23T22:39:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26744 <pre>Hello, Excel 2010 seems to fall over with a generic error message and the option to restart excel. Updates had been completed around Xmas and i have not done any more since. I guess i could try to check for more but it was awful trying to install office 2010 on windows xp when i had a trial on previously. Dont really want to risk a reinstall. It only happens in Excel, web browsing works fine and imaging partitions does as well. The laptop doesnt crash just excel when it performs larger formatting changes or calculation over multiple worksheets. Any idea how to trouble shoot this? Possible causes? Martin N Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups </pre> Martin N 2012-05-23T22:30:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26743 <pre>I've installed dozens of Samsung HM160HC drives, and while the early batches were excellent, I've had quite a few failures with the more recent ones. No issues with their SATA offerings. As for WD, I prefer the 250GB PATA to the 320GB, because I find it to be quieter. As always, YMMV. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Ray Bay &amp;lt;canyonlands-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&amp;gt; To: Thinkpad &amp;lt;Thinkpad-BoP55bLt0vUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&amp;gt; Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 12:52 pm Subject: [Thinkpad] Reliability Experience with IDE 2.5 hard Drives &amp; Samsung` As everyone with an older Thinkpad now knows, IDE drives are expensive to come by... and reliability has become a question Nearly all of the 12 vendors we use for our repair shops now *limit the numbers* of Western Digital, Seagate, or Toshiba hard drives we can order. However, Samsung, Hitachi, and Fujitsu are reasonably plentiful... But we see very high failure rates of these... though Fujitsu is not too worrisome... just no large drive sizes. We are wondering what your experience has been with Samsun IDE 2.5 hard drives... as our failure rate is very high. We wonder if it is damaging done in shipment or if they just are not built as well. Hitachi, of course (under new company and management) claims all their problems are resolved and they will last as long as Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba. But the only Hitachi drives we find are all SATA as nearly as we can tell. All the IDE drives are old technology with old date codes... plentiful but nearly worthless. We would like to learn of your experience and recommendations on brands and suppliers. If we have just been unlucky with Samsung, we will go for more of them. They are plentiful and the prices are the lowest we have found... Still, we have had a number of Samsung drives that lasted less than 30 days in a client's Thinkpad. RayBay </pre> tataslon-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-23T20:22:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26742 <pre>At one point I had problems with them, and have stayed away. Currently I use WD or Seagate. I think my actual failures have been with Seagates, but I change disks often enough that I can't really say which of those two are better. My users kill disks by dropping laptops more often than anything else. --STeve Andre' </pre> STeve Andre' 2012-05-23T19:55:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26741 <pre> My only experience with a Samsung drive was a couple of years ago, and it didn't last long. But that's hardly statistically significant. ...phsiii </pre> Phil Smith III 2012-05-23T17:17:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26740 <pre>As everyone with an older Thinkpad now knows, IDE drives are expensive to come by... and reliability has become a question Nearly all of the 12 vendors we use for our repair shops now *limit the numbers* of Western Digital, Seagate, or Toshiba hard drives we can order. However, Samsung, Hitachi, and Fujitsu are reasonably plentiful... But we see very high failure rates of these... though Fujitsu is not too worrisome... just no large drive sizes. We are wondering what your experience has been with Samsun IDE 2.5 hard drives... as our failure rate is very high. We wonder if it is damaging done in shipment or if they just are not built as well. Hitachi, of course (under new company and management) claims all their problems are resolved and they will last as long as Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba. But the only Hitachi drives we find are all SATA as nearly as we can tell. All the IDE drives are old technology with old date codes... plentiful but nearly worthless. We would like to learn of your experience and recommendations on brands and suppliers. If we have just been unlucky with Samsung, we will go for more of them. They are plentiful and the prices are the lowest we have found... Still, we have had a number of Samsung drives that lasted less than 30 days in a client's Thinkpad. RayBay </pre> Ray Bay 2012-05-23T16:52:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26739 <pre>The list doesn't work like that. Follow the link at the bottom of every list message to unsubscribe. Denis BUCHER wrote: </pre> Rob Bell 2012-05-23T11:49:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26738 <pre> Sorry, one detail I forgot to mention: the newer drive isn't blank -- it has an OS and stuff on it, but I don't mind losing what's there now. That's fine given the procedure above? Thanks, -Scott </pre> Scott Matthews 2012-05-22T15:04:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26737 <pre>Thank you! And so this general procedure: 1) insert new drive into PC 2) boot from imaging CD 3) restore old image to new drive That's all there is to it (apart from that I might wind up with a smaller-than-optimal partition)? Thanks again, -Scott On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Alex Austin &lt;circuitsoft.alex-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: </pre> Scott Matthews 2012-05-22T15:00:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26736 <pre>I don't know about TrueImage, but if it restores the image on the larger disk in its original size, you can expand it using a gparted livecd. On May 22, 2012 9:40 AM, "Scott Matthews" &lt;scott-30SvdIqCKbRl57MIdRCFDg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: </pre> Alex Austin 2012-05-22T14:48:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26735 <pre>Hi all, A few years back I used Acronis True Image to save a .tib file following a clean XP install. The drive in that XP box is getting a bit funky, and I happen to have a newer/better/bigger drive sitting around unused. Can I simply put that different drive into the XP box, boot from the Acronis CD, and restore the .tib image from the other drive? Thanks for any suggestions, -Scott </pre> Scott Matthews 2012-05-22T14:40:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26734 <pre>Does anyone have or know of anyone who has the ThinkPad 750 TV Tuner Pack, FRU 66G6681? I remember these were hard to find, even in the late 90s. Paul </pre> Paul Khoury 2012-05-21T19:05:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26733 <pre> I have a 360P (still has the stylus with it) laying around here somewhere but geese louise.... Finding it. I would suspect it still boots, I used it the last time about six years ago for programming some two-way commercial radios that would only interface with the older/slower com port and processor of the 360. I'll be lookin' around for it. -Dave -----Original Message----- From: thinkpad-bounces-BoP55bLt0vUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces-BoP55bLt0vUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Paul Khoury Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 5:01 AM To: thinkpad-BoP55bLt0vUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Subject: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 750/755/360 Does anyone have any ThinkPad 750/755/360/etc machines they'd like to part with (and doesn't want to engage in price gouging like on ebay)? I'm primarily looking for anything that boots up, and I'm not worried about HDD or battery. Heck, even a 755CX would be nice. Paul _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad-BoP55bLt0vUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad </pre> David Reid 2012-05-20T22:51:39 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26732 <pre>Paul, I've got a 310ED, a 755Cs and a 755CD sitting here. Probably have others but these are out in the open. All were working when retired, and I'm fairly certain I have all the bits and pieces for them in one drawer or another. Make me an offer if interested. Regards, James primarily battery. </pre> James H. E. Maugham 2012-05-20T21:49:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26731 <pre>I have a 360cse somewhere. I'll probably never touch it again, but the shell is cracked because I tried to do something I shouldn't have. Electronics are all good. I have no clue what it's worth. - Alex </pre> Alex Austin 2012-05-20T10:08:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26730 <pre>Does anyone have any ThinkPad 750/755/360/etc machines they'd like to part with (and doesn't want to engage in price gouging like on ebay)? I'm primarily looking for anything that boots up, and I'm not worried about HDD or battery. Heck, even a 755CX would be nice. Paul </pre> Paul Khoury 2012-05-20T10:00:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26729 <pre> GNU/Linux will definitely let you. But on my X30 at least, the CF card slow is terribly slow (like 2MB/s), so you'll probably be disappointed if you try to use it for swap. Stefan </pre> Stefan Monnier 2012-05-19T22:23:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26728 <pre>Some Lenovo computers are still assembled in NC, typically custom to order (CTO) machines, especially Government orders. _______________________ Robert Rosen Senior Technical Advisor, NIAMS Sent from the portable shiny device Message: 1 Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:05:33 -0400 (EDT) From: tataslon-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&lt;mailto:tataslon-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen To: khourypa-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&lt;mailto:khourypa-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, thinkpad-BoP55bLt0vUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&lt;mailto:thinkpad-BoP55bLt0vUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; The Scotland plant which is now a call center assembled ThinkPads way into early T4x series. I was told that the small quantities of ThinkPads were assembled in North Carolina...don't know if it's true. The planars are Chinese, Foxconn on all of them, though... Cheers, George </pre> Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] 2012-05-18T13:08:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad/26734 <pre>Does anyone have or know of anyone who has the ThinkPad 750 TV Tuner Pack, FRU 66G6681? I remember these were hard to find, even in the late 90s. Paul </pre> Paul Khoury 2012-05-21T19:05:01 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.thinkpad