Can anyone tell me if the "shock sensor" in the thinkpads built onto the motherboards or are they there own part?
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Can anyone tell me if the "shock sensor" in the thinkpads built onto the motherboards or are they there own part?
I may be wrong, but I always thought they were built into the hard drive...
They take normal hard drives
Well, the ones I have are *years* old. But everything, back when IBM produced them, was integrated. But then, back then, they also used standard IDE hard-drives, just with a custom connector. Nowadays, I'll presume they use standard SATA drives. But the sensor is most likely still integrated.
On the T41 the APS chip is on the system board, no separate FRU for the accelerometer.
I believe this is the case with all Thinkpads but only have documentation for the T41 handy.
So in theory you could get a mid-range think pad motherboard(other required parts) and get on the quake-grid thing?
ThinkPad T42's also work. Uses about 2 seconds of CPU time in 24 hours, so it is like getting free credit.