hints & tricks in no particular order
09/03/2025
I'll summarize what I learnt while working on 3 different T4400, 2 of them being T4400C and 1 being a T4400SX (with a "last gen" plasma screen no less!) Power supply The power supplies on all three of them needed a recap, as the laptops would not start otherwise (or sometimes start and stop suddenly). The caps are […]
09/03/2025
I expected it would be as easy as removing the batteries -- which is a must anyway on those old laptops because battery leaks are just another name for time bombs. Surprisingly for tech that old, the password doesn't seem to be stored in volatile memory. Let's dig! In the maintenance manual, it is said: Deleting the […]