• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    23 hours ago

    Yeah, I’ve seen such stuff on old forums. Unfortunately, a replacement GPU would cost around €50, and that is just not worth it to try obviously.
    The CPU was €1.38 on AliExpress, so that was worth a try, but for the most part it just produced more heat

    Some different GPU would probably work there, but then again, I don’t know if it is a GPU issue. It wouldn’t even show any drive activity when attempting to boot.

    • A7thStone@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      I had a t61p that suffered from it. Unfortunately I came to the same conclusion that it wasn’t worth fixing. It’s too bad since that was one of the last really good thinkpads.