Good bye, Z61t
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About 2 or 3 years before, I purchased this ME-free notebook (already 10 years old by then) from its former owner. I planned to install Trisquel 8 (based on 16.04 LTS) on it. Now Trisquel 8 has (finally) been released but the notebook has gone.
It can still power on and show the BIOS logo and then boot into Trisquel but will shortly freeze. It became unstable since yesterday afternoon and has crashed for several times with all cursors frozen by now. I don't wish to disassemble it, just keeping it in my closet.
Next, I may consider to build another legacy notebook (with much fewer anti-features) from the scratch.
I would install "memtests86+" (in Trisquel's repository) and let it test you RAM during one full night. Memtest86+ is to be launched from the menu of GRUB, the bootloader, that lists the installed operating systems right after the computer switches on. You may have to keep the Shift key pressed to have GRUB's menu appear. If memtest86+'s blue screen turns red, your RAM is defective. Instead of installing memtest86+, you can test your RAM with any live ISO that includes memtest86+. I do not remember whether Trisquel's ISOs have it.
Changing the RAM is the easiest thing you can do with a laptop. It normally only involves two screws. But you can let whoever sells the RAM do it for you.
I believe this is because of motherboard failure. The SO-DIMMs have been tested thoroughly on another notebook.
Replacing (SO-)DIMMs is really an easy job. I often build notebooks from the scratch, i.e. gathering parts (main frame, motherboard, CPU, fan and heat sink, memory, harddisk, LCD, and any other cables, converter cards, etc.) and then assembling them by myself. I DIYed at least five T61s and gave away some of them. I also DIYed countless X200 series (maybe twenty or thirty, maybe forty or fifty, who knows...) and shared them with my local community.
One of the T61s that I choose to replace this Z61t has a WUXGA screen (1920*1200), so it may be suitable for programming and document processing. The only issue is that there is currently no coreboot implementation...
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