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Lenovo is quite good for build quality in most cases, especially with the older systems. Not sure about the newer ones, as I have not had my hands on one yet, but I would assume they are just as good. Toshiba systems are crappy. Nothing but plastic throughout......

Most Lenovo systems, even if they come with a recovery dvd set, will allow you to create your own set of discs once. Most people don't even know about this feature, which is a shame.....

I had a pretty wierd issue with a customer laptop last month. It would work perfectly with the power not plugged in and running off of battery. Plug the system in and it would start randomly rebooting and getting super hot. Take a stick of memory out and it ran perfectly again with the power...

What is the model # of the replacement board that you used? If it has a slot for discrete video, then odds are it may not even have any kind of onboard video. One way to find that out is figure out what chipset the board uses and do some Google searches....

How is the Pinnacle Studio Ultimate $5 AR ? I looked at the site and it looked like it was $30 after 2 rebates.....

I had a K8N Neo-F (v2.0, from the Geeks $30 sale a few years ago). The SATA ports stopped working on it for some strange reason, but I think it might just be something wrong with the BIOS chip. So, as a replacement, I found a K8N Neo4 Platinum to replace it. It's running great now and even runs...

Well, I ended up replacing the motherboard actually. Upon closer inspection around the power circuitry on the original board, there was a surface component that looked burned up to a small extent. I put the new board in and it is back to the client and working perfectly now.

So I am working on a Toshiba laptop for a friend. It's a Satellite P205D-S7454. The issue is that when the power is plugged in, the system will lock up whenever it wants to. If I remove one of the DIMMs and run with a single, it boots up just fine and is happy to do whatever I want. Now here is...

I built one of my rigs last year with this board. It sat around until March when I finally moved all of my stuff over to it from my last rig. I paired it with an x2 4400+ and it screams. 2 gigs of G.Skill RAM as well and its a night and day difference between this machine and my last one...

Also check out Thinkpads forum. They have some well documented methods of making a WinXP install disc from the preload that is on the system..... My .02

I just installed on my system and no blue screens or problems to report!! Thanks for the download link medtech!

Same here

Awesome! In for 1 myself .... thanks op!

Anyone tried this before? I've been using for quite a while and it makes life a lot easier when I build a new XP system for someone. http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/80682

As an ex-employee who worked with the preloads for ThinkPads and desktop systems (I'm not defending the crap they are doing now by the way) .... ThinkPads have been made in China for the last few years, even before Lenovo purchased IBM PC Division. This isn't anything new. Dell's are made in...