Comments on: How to upgrade CPU on IBM ThinkPad T41p laptop

By: dylan stiles

dylan stiles — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:23:43 +0000

i have a ibm t41 i was looking to upgrade the processor, could i put a intel core 2 duo T5800 in there?

By: Faisalabad Photographer

Faisalabad Photographer — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:06:56 +0000

Wow It is very easy to upgrade.
thanx

By: bill

bill — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:08:40 +0000

You will need a bios update to accept anything bigger then 40gb, just goggle and you will find it.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:52:26 +0000

I have a t41 with a 40 gig hd and want to upgrade the hard drive. I purchased a WD160 (WD1600BEVE) and cloned the newly installed XP Pro srvc pk 2 using WD Data Lifeguard Tools. The cloned drive competed the cloning process successfully, I guess. Now when I install the new hard drive and turn it on it proceeds to start up and then I get a blank screen with the cursor sitting at the top of the blank screen blinking. I flashed the bios to vrsn 3.23 and still the t41 refuses to recognize the new drive. What am I during wrong? Is there certain models that work best? Also what adapter (brand and model nbr) would be needed to convert to sata drives. Help?

By: Brian Foster

Brian Foster — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:00:42 +0000

Am running T41 Upgraded to 2 gg Ram 120g drive 1.8ghz Dothan .. went through 1,7ghz on the way lol, got DVD rewriter ebay (from Latvia) picked up a hong kong bay hard drive cradle … suffers from the heat related (dry joint) vid problem though .. this only manifests on cue club the only addictive game i play, otherwise i love it … win XP Pro, P/Shop cs .. plenty of power.
Anyone addressed the problem of vid via reflow services or such like??

By: ChrisL

ChrisL — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:54:46 +0000

I want to upgrade my cpu. Is there a maximum L2 cache a MOBO will support or doesn’t it matter how high I go on L2 cache?

By: b_skittles

b_skittles — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:32:40 +0000

i have a t41p which i’ve upgraded. currently i’m running dothan 2.1ghz, 2gb ram, 120gb SSD, 128mb mobility FireGL t2 video, windows xp. i’m looking to upgrade the OS to win7 and hope i can find video drivers for my card. psych, try using the omega radeon drivers.. they work great on xp(not sure how they are on win7).

By: Psychopav

Psychopav — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:13:33 +0000

Hi Chris
I have a T41 type 2372 im running 2gb Ram and have a Samsung 160b hard drive, Im running Windows 7 32bit.. and my machine fliesim well happy with my upgrades. Only thing im upset about is the video card in compatibity (ATI RADION 7500 only has 32mb memory) so can run windows media centre, Whch would of given me the icing on the top of my cake!! wish there was away of it working my fooling windows or something as i believe the video card is built onto the motherboard…
Regards
P

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:56:45 +0000

Hi Laptop Tech, I now own a T41, type 2373 which is running a 1.6ghz cpu at present, was wondering about doing CPU and Hard drive upgrades and was hoping you can tell me what the maximum cpu speed will be and max hard drive size would be. A cpu model number would be great.
Many thanks in advanced,
Chris.

By: J

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:38:51 +0000

T41 can be equipped with a large 2.5″ SATA disk (I use 500 GB) by using a bay adapter, that is placed instead of the CD/DVD drive.