IBM Thinkpad T43p - restoring the last IBM laptop

Review IBM Thinkpad T43p / T43 - restoring the last IBM (extended review) Last mighty IBM Laptop or already Lenovo? 1600x1200 IPS flexview display, how to fix error 2010 and delay flexing.
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[@Semseddin.]

I have had T40, T41 and T43 in okay to good conditions before and sold them all. And i bought a super mint condition T43 again today. These are real machines.

[@jemodeu]

I have T40, T43p, T410s, X220t, X1 CARBON

[@FloppytopHoppencock]

OMFG! THANK YOU! for finding that Error 2010 fix!!! I have an ssd in mine for old school XP games.

[@user-rt1et3zw1d]

I setted up the Japanese keyboard for my T42, looks pretty! Awesome video by the way, i love the way you shooting.

[@panoramacircle3281]

Thanks man, some of it is shot on old radioactive lenses from the 70s! I just looked up Japanese keyboards, I wonder how do they even work?

[@user-rt1et3zw1d]

They have green letters on them and glyphs :3

[@ArthurD]

Some buttons are to change between hiragana/katakana writing systems and kanji symbols.

[@MT-rc3gn]

You sound like the Computerinator

[@rlcodispoti]

Love these, hope you can get your hands on some other rare/retro pads like the X300/X301 Kodachi or W series. Also when doing thermal paste on bare die chips you want to make sure the whole die is covered, although with the amount you used it probably covered everything and then some haha!

[@panoramacircle3281]

Thanks man, thankfully the MX4 is non-electrical conductive, so it won't fry my board!

[@Semseddin.]

I think we need more T43p videos bro. Anything related to T43P, especially the sata mod, the process.

[@Semseddin.]

seriously bro, if you still have the t43p and decide to do the sata mod yourself, please document the process in a video for people. I want to do it myself but i am unfortunately a person who understands what i see instead of what i read. :D

[@cromulence]

Nice! FYI, the Wi-Fi card is actually a MiniPCI card.

[@panoramacircle3281]

Yes, good catch, I was thinking that Expresscard and PCIe internally with in the same model.

[@mohammadanamulislamkhan7714]

Great details dude😊😊😊😊😊😊....thnx.thnx .thnx

[@user-uz9yn2ob4f]

a real brand best machine in the last ibm brand type :) i like this type especial ibm os/2 warp 4.52 cd version a op system :D

[@marinavillamizar7682]

Tengo 1 de esas pero no tengo el cargador y no de si sirva pero ojala

[@KylesDigitalLab]

Just got a T43p with the 1600x1200 IPS display, I put new thermal paste on the CPU, fan still sounds like a jet engine. Also, at 5:27, the plastic piece on the palmrest you are pointing at, is it attached to the palmrest itself? On mine it sort of is attached, but only in one spot. You can sort of move it back and forth. I looked and it doesn't really look like it broke off, but I hope my palmrest isn't broken.

[@panoramacircle3281]

That's the drainage tunnel, if it's loose just glue it back on. Yes the T43p gets loud because IBM was afraid of flexing under heat so the cranked up the fan. You can use TPFancontrol to reduce the fan curve. One last thing would be to replace the paste -below_ the gpu heat spreader but you have to remove that part, maybe I'll do a video about that too.

[@KylesDigitalLab]

@@panoramacircle3281 It goes on fine, I don't need to glue it. I'm just wondering if it was moulded like that.

[@gamingwithadutchman]

Man i love old IBM laptops. I still own a IBM thinkpad G40 and T40 both in mint condition (for second hand) Using the G40 for retro gaming (thanks for both dvd/cd and floppy) and planning on selling the t40 (dont need alot of laptops laying around) A tip from me to anyone out there you can actually buy a upgraded cooler for the t40 wich also cools the gpu and increases life span. ;)

[@panoramacircle3281]

With T40 you have to be careful with flexing so you should replace CPU paste asap and try avoid running it too hot.

[@gamingwithadutchman]

@@panoramacircle3281 Yeah good tip aswell. But i think with the new paste and the upgraded cooler it should last alot longer.

[@user-uz9yn2ob4f]

gaming with i have a g41 and a t43p :) a g41 is special only ibm laptop a g41 for nvidia vga get fx 5200 :)

[@namesalvaje]

Great Video! Now I have to check my X60 thermal paste :)

[@panoramacircle3281]

X60 does not suffer from flexing afaik so you should be safe (in particular with Intel GPU)

[@namesalvaje]

@@panoramacircle3281 It still works perfect with a 320GB 7,200 Rpm drive. One quick questions . What Linux Distro would you recommend for the X60?

[@panoramacircle3281]

@@namesalvaje Honestly that is quite difficult, it has to be 32bit and compatibel with older hardware. That is trail and error so you have to test it. In my experience most modern Linux distros break compatibility too often.

[@gianniboreio152]

Good morning, always appreciate your Thinkpad video as i'm a big fan of Thinkpad,, concerning the flexing i have x60 x60s x61s and x61t and i can confirm very solid units and non problems at all with flexing. i was considering to get in series T4* but those one as you know get problems with flexing, did you meet this wit yours T43P ? do you know if models T43 or T43P also have this failure ? Thanks a lot . Always enjoy your video ! Greetings from Belgium.

[@rogeryu0]

How did you get the adhesive under the white pad off the heatsink?

[@panoramacircle3281]

Scrape it of with a knife and metal sponge, was quite some work.

[@rogeryu0]

Thank you, I just decided to buy a plastic razor sticker removal tool for my own overheating T43. I bought the Intel GPU version of the heatsink for $US25 to use my Arctic MX4 instead of having to buy a low quality thermal pad from eBay, but ran into this problem. I actually scratched the heatsink badly while trying other adhesive removal techniques, but luckily the scratches miss the northbridge die entirely, and only go to the edges of the GPU IHS.

[@ViBENo1]

at 10:40 how did you fix the top? there was a tons of scratch on it.

[@panoramacircle3281]

Check out my videos about polishing ThinkPads with Magic Eraser kzbin.info/www/bejne/boqQgJ2il86IZ5Y

[@panoramacircle3281]

Check out my blog article: panoramacircle.com/2018/08/12/ibm-thinkpad-t43-ibms-last-business-flagship/

[@vladgaus]

To date, the differences between t42 and t43 or t42p and t43p are minimal.) Both are beautiful retro computers.

[@SiTang]

I have one too, but it's BIOS password locked. Trying to figure out the I2C protocol to erase the password…

[@dailenth]

You need to remove the 2xxx battery that is located inside the motherboard and make sure the power is disconnected. This will clear the CMOS,and the BIOS will be at defaults. The purpose of the battery is to provide low voltage power to sustain the memory chip on the chip that keeps the BIOS settings.

[@wasimlike4like13]

Love

[@youngteam2.0officiel24]

hello I have the same pc but I can not handle it for a problem of windows j happen not the demarer you can help me

[@panoramacircle3281]

Sorry I don't understand "demarer". windows 10 has problems on the older CPUs so take Win7 instead.

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

I just installed the latest Linux Mint 9.2 (cinnamon). on my T43 (not a p model). It is amazing and more fun than windows. I am converting all my Thinkpads to this operating system. IMHO, it is the greatest Linux for a simple guy like me...installs well, everything works...so happy Linux has come this far.

[@Boemel]

What fan control software do you use ?

[@panoramacircle3281]

I used tpfancontrol, you might want to adjust some temp thresholds in the ini file.

[@Boemel]

thanks, i have yet to find the right thinkpad, im looking for a T60 or T60P as a replacement for my backup pc a compaq presario with E5300 cpu.

[@panoramacircle3281]

If you actually want to use it, I would go for minimum of C2D (T60-T400) or a more modern T430(s)?

[@Boemel]

i want the classic keypad so would be a max of T420. I have seen some mods of a classic keyboard into a t430 but need to look further into all those differences, they made so many variations i cant keep up.

[@panoramacircle3281]

Yes, T420 is quite powerful and usable (Sandy bridge) if you can live with a 16:9 display.

[@gregory9069]

I have T43p 15" but cant find any working drivers driver for GPU for win7 32bit. Anybody have a working driver for fire gl v3200? Win 7 32bit says it's standard VGA adapter.

[@gregory9069]

I've found a fix. Drivers from lenovo site for xp work but win7 decides that it's going to use generic drivers. I needed to manually select the driver that was already installed and Voila.

[@gregory9069]

Now I just need to figure it out how to update bios...

[@panoramacircle3281]

If someone else is looking for drivers: download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/T43p.html

[@asdasdasd9320]

The last IMB laptop was some T61 models I remember having an IBM branded T61

[@panoramacircle3281]

Some (most?) of the T61 had the Lenovo branding as well.

[@archygrey9093]

They had the IBM logo but they were 100% owned and made by Lenovo. Lenovo had the rights to keep using the ibm name a few years after purchasing.

[@Eessa]

Laptops aren't designed straight away they take a long time under Research and Development. the T61 was also developed before acquisition with IBM tooling . just like Apple engineered the iPhone 5 during Steve Jobs After 2 years from acquisition is when It was just lenovo team products X41 last designed and manufactured by IBM in early 2005. T61 in 2007 (last designed by IBM thinkpad) T400 was called T4xx because Lenovo wanted to unify lineup to their own scheme by then in late 2007/2008 era so from 2005-2008 they were recyling and manufacturing stuff from IBM 2008-now they worked exclusively as Lenovo the quality changed too by then

[@muhassinbabumm924]

Where can I find the drivers for this (for windows 7)

[@panoramacircle3281]

download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/T43p.html

[@zomgneedaname]

What about gaming 'Can it run Crysis' LOL I'm surprised it even ran and you managed to get 1fps out of it...crazy what the old tech could do back in the days. At 1600x1200 no less

[@brutusthebuttress1476]

Idc what anyone says, the 00 series where the last true IBMs!

[@tlmoller]

Win10 works quite well. I have an PATA SSD it this is an improvement. And I also have an T61. Around 3x faster :-)

[@lcollingwood5959]

I nabbed a t61p. Practically new. Not a scratch on er. Runs great still

[@henrymach]

You're german with a brazilian IBM?

[@panoramacircle3281]

Why do you think Brazilian?

[@henrymach]

Panorama as a circle I see an Anatel sticker on the wifi card. Anatel is the brazilian telecommunications bureau. Also there's a "marca registrada" stamped somewhere, which is portuguese for trademark

[@panoramacircle3281]

Very interesting, I bought this TP used from ebay, so maybe someone had changed the internal wifi-card or the keyboard before?

[@henrymach]

Seems like you've got a well traveled notebook

[@alpzepta]

It QWERTZ + Accent key like "Ä" "Ü" "Ö" "ß" + ISO Layout so it German.

[@samialoui3978]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@promotesmith5005]

up

[@neoherbalcares465]

This thing is so hard to find

[@panoramacircle3281]

It is, in particular with the 1600x1200 IPS display!

[@EvilGamer67]

1 core 1 thread on windows 7?!

[@panoramacircle3281]

Those were the good old days! 640K RAM should be enough for everyone.

[@EvilGamer67]

@@panoramacircle3281 512MB should be ok for everyone ;)