Post AvZatLiMFuAhPV1DU0 by matthew@social.retroedge.tech
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(DIR) Post #AvZ4N3SNPAdKz86Hpo by chaslinux@techhub.social
2025-06-27T16:38:40Z
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Today was an awesome day at work. I managed to get a bit of time to completely year down this Lenovo X220 tablet, apply new thermal paste to the CPU, upgrade the RAM to 16GB DDR3, and replace the Seagate 500GB spinning rust drive with a 250GB WD Blue SSD. It's rocking Linux Mint 22.1 XFCE. Just finishing up by adding Krita, and some other software that might be useful on this neat machine. Have to pick up an eprom programmer some time so we can start flashing coreboot to some devices.
(DIR) Post #AvZ4N7jXVIjsFWA38q by chaslinux@techhub.social
2025-06-27T16:43:19Z
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Sorry all. In my original post I included all images and meta data, but the images didn't show.
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2025-06-27T16:41:25Z
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2025-06-27T16:42:31Z
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2025-06-27T16:40:17Z
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(DIR) Post #AvZatLiMFuAhPV1DU0 by matthew@social.retroedge.tech
2025-06-28T01:00:47.459173Z
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Excellent!We just did something similar this evening to one of my sons' laptops. You inspired us. #thinkpad #x220t
(DIR) Post #AvZdWmppYW04j1RlRY by chaslinux@techhub.social
2025-06-28T01:12:53Z
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@matthew that's awesome to hear, thank you! What other upgrades/changes did you do? I enjoyed the process, the X220s are built well.
(DIR) Post #AvZdWnnNz5dfhjJKGu by matthew@social.retroedge.tech
2025-06-28T01:30:18.998487Z
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We upgraded the memory from 8GB to 16GB. One of the memory slots was not working, but got it working again after cleaning with a brush and rubbing alcohol. Some of the memory contacts in the slot must have had something stuck between them. Works great after cleaning. We took out the bluetooth module, as my son does not plan on using that, so one less wireless device to worry about for power and security. Redid thermal paste. Thorough cleaning. Seems to be working much better now. It was not booting up at all right before this cleaning and working on and off for the past couple weeks. Hopefully this cleaning and service resolves that. #thinkpad #x220t