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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:55 pm

Yeah, me too. Too much effort because if you want to clean correctly you have to open the whole thing and maybe even change the thermal paste.

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by rust collector » Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:10 pm

sure, but then it might keep working for a few more years.

Well, I guess you just want a reason to buy an old thinkpad... that is ok.

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Unread post by pidsley » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:06 pm

I used to be afraid of changing thermal paste until I finally tried it. It wasn't that difficult. It made a huge difference on one machine and not much on another.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:56 pm

^ Ironically, same here. It worked on my Acer, it didn't change a thing on the ThinkPad.

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by rust collector » Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:58 am

I used copper antizeise on a few. Anything is better than dried old gunk.

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Sep 18, 2015 10:12 am

a lot easier to change the paste on ATX mobos, than on a laptop.
I had an old athlon HP and the thermal paste was just black dust, much better once it got changed over.
I feel the thermal paste is going on my Acer lappy. randomly spins the fans - although I say random, it's really whenever I do anything and the load jumps to 2.0 :)
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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by rust collector » Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:07 pm

The fans on this machine, an old dell m90, used to spin up and stay on.
It would scream, and if you know someone with hair, they could have used it as a hair dryer.
New paste... nope... no change.
Turns out it was the graphics card.
So, I had to take that apart, clean it up, and add new paste.
Nice and quiet now.

The thing is not worth anything, measured in money, but it works well, so why not fix the little stuff, and keep using it?

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Jan 05, 2016 12:31 pm

windows:
desk.jpg
just about see the work machine NUC under some postit notes on the right there. :)
old apple mac file/print, music, print, torrent whatever server.

Edit: Root passwords are not on the postit notes. just checked...
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jun 10, 2016 2:11 pm

hotdesk update:
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much better than before
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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by dkeg » Fri Jun 10, 2016 2:21 pm

nice ... phone takes up half the desk

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri Jun 10, 2016 2:25 pm

^ True and I see Sennheiser phones.

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by doubledutch » Fri Jun 10, 2016 2:39 pm

I couldn't work with all those windows - glare is real and the evil day star is my sworn enemy.

I'm happy this thread got necro'd -- I'll post my stuff in 12 hours or less, have been meaning to for almost two years now! Sadly, still using all the same hardware.

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:06 pm

Love the Most Awesome Dad sticker.

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:24 pm

dkeg wrote:nice ... phone takes up half the desk
imma bizzness man! that is the standard cisco IP phone.

yeah all my shit there, harmon-kardon old sound sticks - nothing else very special.
it was my b-day, which seems to have coalesced into Fathers day over here :)

PS yes Glare is a problem, why I have a light scheme, never thought I would.
Although glare not all that bad, I live in the UK remember :)
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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Jul 07, 2016 12:10 pm

Finally a member of the thinkpad crew!
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Funny how the 'retro' site doesn't really work on a retro machine :)
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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by franksinistra » Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:55 pm

^ Is that X31/40? the clit still looks pretty good. :)
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:35 pm

^ 380XD XD
p2 96Mb Ram running tinycore, quite nicely, as long as don't run into swap too much.
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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by darry1966 » Thu Jul 07, 2016 11:57 pm

Nice stuff Wux. By the way I have seen and old leveno R500 do you think it is worthwhile buying it from a second hand computer refuse store?
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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by darry1966 » Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:07 am

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Re: show us your iron

Unread post by rust collector » Fri Jul 08, 2016 2:17 am

Batteries has come a long way since then...

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Battery

    Recharge Time
    4.2 hour(s)
    Capacity
    2.8 mAh
    Run Time (Up To)
    4.5 sec

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