There will be no TRIM on a T43p with a SSD in the UltraBay, period. Then please explain this: Never had issues using TRIM with an Intel X25-V drive in an ultrabay bracket with PATA-to-SATA convertor, in a Thinpad T43. No issues either installing Windows 8 on an Crucial M40 in the same bracket. TRIM...

Hi, I recently purchased two of these with the following specs... i7-4500u/8GB/256GB SSD/1080p screen/NO DIGITIZER/Intel 7260-N WiFi - (both preconfigured from a consumer store) I swapped the 256 SSD in both of them for a 750GB SSD and a 1TB SSD (Samsung 840 EVO series). I swapped the 7260-N for a ...

Do bear one thing in mind: If you're using an unconverted T43, the whole concept of adapter+SSD may or may not work, and if it does work it will return weaker results than it would on a comparable T42/p. The only way to run an SSD in a T43/p or R52 is to SATA-mod it. Previous T4x machines are a who...

I went from Windows XP to Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and now Windows 8.1 on my T43. I'm using the same ATI X300 drivers from Vista, modded to install. Is this an official mod, or is it something you have done? Depending on what happens with the T50 project, I might be looking into Win8 on a T43. ...

According to Intel documentation, PAE is enabled when bit 5 is set in the CR4 register. NX is enabled when PAE is enabled and bit 11 is set in the CPU MSR 0xC0000080. I'm not sure but it seems Windows assumes PAE is present if and only if NX is present. There are 2 kernel versions shipped with Wind...

I just made some testing on my T42 (Pentium M 755, 400 MHz FSB). According to the CPUID instruction, PAE and NX are not supported. Patching my Windows 7 kernel and loader to force them to enable PAE seems to work. However patching them to force NX on seems to triple-fault the CPU... Merci de l'expl...

My T41 and T42 have no PAE support. The CPU in both machine is a PM 755. Currently, it is running Win 7 just fine. Before that I was searching and searching and searching for a relatively current Linux distro that supports a non-PAE CPU. The newer Ubuntu flavour won't support non-PAE. Ended up with...

There is no PAE support on 400 MHz CPUs. You need to hack a 533MHz CPU to install W8 on a T42, such as PM 750/760/770/780. actually, the 400 Mhz Dothan CPUs do support PAE /NX , but lack the CPU feature flag(s) for it. Since not too long ago, the Ubuntu 12.04 PAE kernel boots happily off these old ...

Hmmm, Windows or Linux? I use hibernation on an SSD in Linux with a LUKS encrypted LVM setup. This way everything apart of the small boot partition hosting the kernel is encrypted, included the swap volume used for hibernation. afaik both BitLocker (asks for my encryption key when I resume from hib...

Again, I tested read performance from a single disk, Samsung MMCRE28GTMXP. This time, I have an actual PCI card and I borrowed a desktop: Dell OptiPlex GX260. sustained read speed GX260 ICH4 + SiI3124-2 : 126 Mo/s Dock PCI2032 + SiI3124-2 : 101 Mo/s random seek 500000 average GX260 ICH4 + SiI3124-2...

... No, maximum RAM is still exactly 3.0 GB, not more because it is a limitation implemented in BIOS level. What about when using PAE (for addressing more memory rather than for only accessing NX)? supported by: - Windows XP original and XP SP1 - Windows Server 32-bit Enterprise and Datacenter edit...

first of all, I don't know how these options hold up against each other regarding reliability. I'd go for one of the T60 models, as it supports native Sata SDD (the T43 requires a hardware mod or another bridge chip and sacrificing your ultrabay slim drive bay). Further more, the T60 support 3 GB of...

an update on running Windows 8 on the T43 (model 2668): - CPU speed sometimes doesn't scale to the full 2 GHz when on the adapter. For some reason, Windows sometimes limits the CPU to 800Mhz (which is what I've set for battery mode). Cycling adapter/battery/adapter mode fixes this when it occurs. Ve...

I don't remember doing anything special, but I did set the "Setup.exe" file to use "Windows Vista" compatibility mode and installed that way. (C:\ATI\Support\ 10-02_legacy_vista32-64_dd_ccc \Setup.exe) Let me know if you have any issues with Desktop scaling. It seemed to work as expected in Windows...

Can you explain how to install the Catalyst 10.2 on the T43 with Win 8? I've modded the Catalyst 10.2 for Win Vista/7 x86 edition using the final release of the unofficial mobility modder tool. When I try to install the catalyst driver, I get a 'driver installation failed' error in the catalyst inst...

.. maybe, but the X300 driver shipping with Win8 reports WDDM 1.2 in dxdiag. Would it be impossible to support Direct2D for the X300? for example, WinXP had hardware GDI acceleration, which the X300 likely supports just fine. I'll need to test that in Win8 with the build-in driver. I'm getting four...

The X300 only goes up to WDDM 1.0 / Vista. Maybe, but the X300 driver shipping with Win8 reports WDDM 1.2 in dxdiag. Would it be impossible to support Direct2D for the X300? for example, WinXP had hardware GDI acceleration, which the X300 likely supports just fine. I'll need to test that in Win8 wi...

I don't think I've *ever* had a BSOD or any stability issues on my T43 before. I only use modded drivers because that's the only way to get the latest drivers for it. I've been using the 10.2 drivers since they were released (around late February, early March 2010, I guess). I've had zero issues wi...

thanks. Is the modded Catalyst 10.2 completely stable with the X300 in the T43, especially after extensive S3 standby/sleep cycling? My normal OS installation is Microsoft Windows Vista, and I've previously tried many modded catalyst versions that I finally abandoned for a WindowsUpdate supplied dri...

How do you get PowerPlay to work on the Mobility X300 (which my T43 is equipped with) in Windows 8? I'm trying Windows 8 (PXE boot), but PowerPlay doesn't kick in to preserve power when I go to battery mode. Battery life therefor is much lower than in my Vista install. I've verified this with GPU-Z....

In my not-so-modest experience with T43/p machines, neither NHC nor TPFC addresses the "pulsing fan" problem. Replacing M24 fan with M10 works wonders in my book. Replacing the M24 with a M10 fixed the pulsating fan issue on my T43. I guess drilling the hole + oil in the M24 would do too, but I did...

dr_st: more efficient code != using less memory automatically. Better to use more memory and do less swap operations than to use less memory and swap each time a new tab is opened... at least it is better for user's experience to feel the system more dynamic. And the RAM is cheap nowadays - who car...

FYI for anyone else interested in a similar upgrade: the TP-LINK TL-WN861N adapter uses an Atheros chipset and should work well under Linux and FreeBSD. You can get one from Amazon for $25.01 shipped. There's a three-antenna variant too: TL-WN961N. Note that the TP-LINK card, like many TP-LINK prod...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WiFi-N-802-11n-LAPTOP-Mini-PCI-Card-Dell-Inspiron-300m-600m-700m-1100-1150-1200-/160752575085 http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Thinkpad-T43-Wifi-N-802-11N-PCI-mini-Card-300M-RARE-/400061903669 With TTAV134's BIOS and the proper drivers you should be in (fast) business! The NO-180...

You'll come back on that statement when you start experiencing plenty of 'unusual' behaviour. What I did to assess the minimum voltage required for each speed step: - run burncpu/cpuburn/prime95/etc. for at least an hour at the set voltage. Prime95 will report if there is an error in the calculation...

Sorry to hear, how very annoying :evil: Don't know if it's already part of your solution, but mine was to use NHC (Notebook Hardware Control) to speedstep and undervolt the CPU (for lower heat production) as well as using a better/more quiet fan schedule (also NHC). I do indeed only do light work o...

FYI: in S3, the machine is still powered, and thus vulnerable to key recovery. If you want to make sure your key is unrecoverable, shut down the machine completely. S4 is only a suitable replacement if the storage used for suspend is also encrypted. That said, most thieves don't have the patience o...

I've never used TrueCrypt for full-disk encryption, but if you run Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate or 7 Ultimate, bitlocker is really nice and easy. When I boot my Windows, it'll ask me to plug in a USB drive with the encryption key into my T43. After that moment, it's not needed any more until the...

Just like the title says, I'm wondering how secure the information is when you set a password on the hard drive. If there is a password on the hard drive, can anyone circumvent the hard drive and still see the information on the drive without breaking it? Is the password entry method easily breakab...

Hi, I own a T43 model 2668 with longfan, and have ever since I acquired this notebook been annoyed with the noise level of the fan. After reading that the M10 longfan for the T41/T42 also fits the T43 and offers lower noise levels, I decided to find the cheapest seller on Ebay and buy it off them. B...