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I have the same machine the author shows in the picture. Agree completely. Also have a really old T60p. Might be close to 15 years old now. It has a bad fan
by ddingus 3y ago
I have the same machine the author shows in the picture. Agree completely.
Also have a really old T60p. Might be close to 15 years old now. It has a bad fan.
What I did was put the machine into passive cooling and spin the fan up at boot! Kind of like a jump start.
Runs just fine.
- neilv 3y agoIf you want to make it like-new... The T60* fan is a few-dollar part on eBay (plus you'll need a little ordinary PC CPU heat sink thermal compound, and some tape), it's not too hard to replace, and there's documentation. If you download the Hardware Maintenance Manual (HMM) PDF for that model, IIRC, it'll tell you step-by-step how to replace the fan&heatsink assembly. Follow those instructions, but after you remove the assembly, just remove the thermal compound, pull the fan off, tape the new fan onto the old heatsink assembly, apply thermal compound, and resume following the HMM instructions for putting the 'new' assembly into the laptop. Edit: The latest version of the HMM I could find: https://web.archive.org/web/20210429114642/https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/42t7844_04.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20210429114642/https://download....
- ddingus 3y agoThanks! I may do this. I still really like the old machine
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