X230 Forced to Finish, OwO

After a long time of leaving my beloved Thinkpad X230 in a draw I was forced to bring it back out. Since the political changes in the USA, me and my partner thought it best to leave our personal devices at home and bring wiped ones. Also, I wanted to run the open-source BIOS replacment HEADS, so like two birds one stone. My x230 was the perfect fit! I dusted it off and hit that power button, after realising it was dead on battery and plugging it in, it just powered up! Fans spun up, and the screen… well. If you have read my previous X230 blog post you will know originally I had issues getting it to work reliablly. It did work for a while but eventially just died on me. ...

Tue, May 27, 2025

Thinkpad X230 QHD MOD and Lots More (A brain dump)

This artical was written a long time and left in a very uncomplete state. I still need to add links but I thought I would post it otherwise I will never post it. Please excuse the state this is in. I have since moved onto a framework and then a surface tablet since I completed this mod. My thinkpad is now dead, the screen flickering returned. I have a feeling this is because the cable died. These modes can be very unraliable, they are attaching to parts of the machine that were not ment for a 2k screen. They rely on hacking the bios to trick it into displaying only out of a docking port. Also, the parts will not be QC’ed as well. This can leave the hardware in a very unreliable state. ...

Tue, Mar 5, 2024