T410 Upgrade

Hey guys. I have a T500 and another person wants it more than I do so I was thinking of giving to to him with a install of 8 Pro, That is not the question though. My question is if I uninstall some of the T500 only drivers and put the SSD in the T410 and install the T410 drivers is that easier and stable enough to be better than doing a clean install and transferring my files. (Unfortunately I would probably lose my JetPack Joyride save data any way to copy that I am like level 12) all my other Steam games thankfully save in the cloud. I also have a second question. It is about the T500 ultra bay adapter for a SATA hard drive (where my Steam games and Blu-Ray saves are stored) is it there same type you use in the T410? I don't mind buying an adapter but if I can I would like to use the same one. Is that possible? I probably can Google it in like 5 seconds but since I am posting a confirmation would be fantastic. Have a great day!
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Hi parmardilan,
As far as switching the SSD, it should work once the correct drivers are put in place.
In regards to your second question, according to this Personal Systems Reference the ultrabay specs should be the same for both.
Hope this helps!
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T410 upgraded to 8, can't recover to 7

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I have a T410 bought new in 2011, preloaded with Win7 Pro. Used it for about 2 years with no problems. I then upgraded to Windows 8 and after that, 8.1. Because of a number of problems and glitches, I want to go back to the preinstalled 7. I created recovery disks last week - the utility in the Q drive created one CD and 2 DVD's.
It appears, when I try to recover, that the recovery CD is now for Windows 8 even though I believe the 2 DVD's contain Win7 images, so the recovery cannot continue. When I boot with the recovery CD, it loads Win 8 and from there it gives me optons to recover, but all of them are for 8, and it tells me the DVDs do not contain valid images, probably because it's trying to recover 8 from Win 7 DVD's.
Is there a way I can create a recovery bootable CD that attempts to recover Win 7? Please help!

Note factory recovery preparation for Lenovo preloaded win7 and win8 images differs so the tool like "Factory Recovery Disks" from win7 is absent within Lenovo preloaded win8. So I can't understand how you've mixed different recovery medias.
OK, that doesn't matter.
What I'd have done:
- we need bootable media, to be clear - bootloader on that one. It could be on win7 installation disk, or m$ tool for official .iso makes that or 3rd party tool.
- I suggest to make an image copy of your bootable cd to the cd-rw and delete everything on that new disk
- open sdrivebackup.wim image (7-zip) and copy BOOT folder with its content, as well bootmgr to the cd-rw root folder, winre.wim from the \recovery folder to the cd-rw root folder. You should get Lenovo win7 recovery boot media.
Note you could work with usb stick. Everything you'll need is to prepare primary partition on that stick.
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T410 Windows 7 Upgrade - from Win 7 Pro 32 to Win 7 Ultimate 64.

I purchased a T410 with Win 7 Pro 32 and am looking for the option to upgrade it to Win 7 Ultimate 64.
The shop in the country (Singapore) do not provide such option/customization.
Called tech support in the country without getting much info (they said they only support hardware).
Tried Lenovo shop in the country and they will only help to upgrade to Pro 64 with a charge, however without any recovery media (OS and drivers). I need Ultimate 64.
Browsed Lenovo site and couldn't find anything relevant.
Hope someone will give me the direction to upgrade from Win 7 Pro 32 to Win 7 Ultimate 64 (with all drivers).
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Dear Yannick Plavonil,
That discussion was started by me only on dell community and it was not resolved.
However if I upgrade can I revert back to Win 7, if something does not resolve or some of the devices
connected to the motherboard do not work?
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T410 - Keyboard problems after Windows 8.1 upgrade

Hi to all!
Recently i'm facing huge problems with the keyboard of my T410.
The Laptop shuts down when I press "Alt Gr", if I press shutdown - the screen spins several times before shutting down, if I use the arrow-keys the screen also flips, the normal letter-keys won't work at all. Every pressed Button makes a little beepsound.
The scrolling-funktion on the touchpad doesnt work either.
Using an USB-Keyboard / Mouse, I have no problems at all.
I have installed the latest drivers and bios-update.
This problem is there after I upgraded windows 8 to windows 8.1. All windows-updates have been made.
Do you have any tips to use my Laptop as a laptop again? At the moment I have a small desktop PC as the laptop won't work without usb-keyboard and muse.
I looking forward to your replies. Best regards

I don't no what in-place means but I installed the Upgrade to 8.1 via the Windosw Store on a running Windows8 system.
I just re-ran System Update in the latest version, checked windows updates, checked the drivers via the lenovo support page manually, latest bios...but still doesnt work.
In the Windows 8.1 Tested System List from the lenovo homepage which I just found is the T410 not listed. So I assume it could be a compatibility problem.
Back to Win8?

Results and a Procedure for SSD Upgrade on T410s

After finding that my T410s 1.8" hard drive was 35% - 60% slower than the variety of 2.5" SATA Hard Drives in my older Thinkpads, I selected a Kingston SSDNow V+180 128GB for $219 for the SSD upgrade from Amazon because this Kingston model had the best price for published performance.
If anyone else is thinking of this upgrade, here are the results using CrystalDiskMark to measure Read and Write speeds. (The Kingston has much better Write speeds than the Intel SSD used in some T410s models.)
System: T410s with 1.8" Toshiba 250G drive > upgraded to Kingston SSDNow V+180 128GB
                                                    HDD             SSD               Improvement
Sequential Read 1000MB           47 MB/s        190 MB/s       304%
Sequential Write 1000MB           46                 150                 226%
Random Read       512KB           21                 174                 728%
Random Write       512KB           22                 149                 577%
Random Read           4KB          0.30               14.0              4566%
Random Write           4KB          0.68               16.0              2253%
Upgrade Procedure
To complete the upgrade, I restored a Windows 7 Disk Image from the HDD to the SSD. Partition Alignment and TRIM were both correct after the transfer to the SSD. The Windows 7 image was on a USB drive where I maintain a Fresh Install image that has my full setup.
Notes: To restore a Windows 7 image from a larger drive to a smaller drive, you must create the disk image after shrinking drive C:\ to a size that permits it to fit on the new smaller drive . . so your larger source drive MUST HAVE unallocated space before creating the Windows 7 Disk Image. When shrinking drive C:\ on your source drive, shrink it enough so it will easily fit with room to spare on new smaller drive, otherwise Windows 7 image restore will not work.   You can expand drive C:\ to fill the entire new SSD drive after restoring the image to the SSD. (more notes about the source drive below)
- The Disk Imaging mentioned in this post is built into Windows 7 - Acronis is great but not needed for this SSD upgrade.
- Shrinking and Expanding drive C:\ is done in Windows 7 Disk Management
- Your larger source drive must be configured to have Unallocated Space before creating the disk image.  Its the total size of all partitions on your source drive that matters, even if you don't select extra partions to be in the image. Creating Unallocated Space on the source drive is the only thing that works for using Disk Imaging to move from a larger drive to a smaller drive.
Important:   Check out post installation Tweaks when using an SSD at this link.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows-7-ssd-tweaking-guide
especially disable Hybernation and scheduled Defragmentation. Scheduled Defragementation may be set by default on all Windows 7 installations.
Other Results
Windows 7 boots to the login screen in 16 seconds now compared to 28 seconds before.
The T410s with the Toshiba HDD was a real drag compared to my older T500 and T61 with stock 5400rmp Hard Drives.
The T410s with the Kingston SSD is now my quickest system.
The measured results I get from the Kingston are a little slower than the results published in an independent review of this drive using the same free CrystalDiskMark utility. I know my Partition Alignment is good, so maybe the different results are caused by some difference in the computers.  To make sure the disk image transfer wasn't causing a performance hit, I also performed a from-scratch install of Windows 7 directly on the SSD. The performance tests results were the same with either method getting Win7 on the SSD.
The 1.8" Toshiba Hard Drive that came with the T410s was painfully slow, I am a little surprised Lenovo would put this drive in one of their business class systems.
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Thank you for posting this. It was very helpful in my decision to move from the Toshiba 250G drive to the 256G Kingston. The performance of the drive is awesome. I thought I would share a few items on how I went through the upgrade.
I used the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery and performed a full BASE backup. It took about 12-14 hours to backup around 220 GB.
I then replaced the old drive with the new drive.
After replacing, I used the two recovery DVDs to restore to factory settings.
After back to factory, I went through all the basic setup so I could use the OS.
I then downloaded the critical update for Recuse and Recovery.
After that I ran rescue and recovery with the option to replace everything.
The restore of the data took 3-6 hours (didn't sit around to watch the whole thing).
Everything was restored perfectly. No issues at all.
I had read that you could boot off of the external backup on USB, but I couldn't validate that myself. Lenovo tech support also said it couldn't be done. I had reviewed my plan with Lenovo support a few times to be sure I was doing things right. The knowledge level on R&R is pretty inconsistent.
Also, a note that my original drive was encrypted with PGP Whole Disk Encryption. When R&R backs up the data it's no longer encrypted and I didn't have a password on the backup. I turned off disk defrag after the restore. I confirmed Windows 7 was set to use TRIM.
I highly recommend the drive. The 256GB wasn't cheap, but I needed that amount of space. The performance like I said, is excellent.
Good post, swbca. Thanks!

T410 Loss of Thinkvantage when upgrading from XP to Windows 8.1

Having upgraded my T410 from XP to Windows 8.1 I am unable to get the blue Thinkvantage to work. I have downloaded and installed Update 5.05 from Lenovo but to no avail. Can anyone help me please? Thank You.

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Upgrade Bluetooth, Fingerprint and Webcam for my T410

Now, I have a thinkpad T410 Type:2537hn2. My laptop has not webcam, bluetooth and Finger and I want to upgrade for my lap. I live in vietnam. Plz help me!!!
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I don't think lenovo whitelists Bluetooth cards, as long as it is lenovo part and there is an empty PCI slot in your T410 you can install the Bluetooth. As for Fingerprint, if there is FPR connector on the board, then I can't imagine why it won't work too. Same for the camera which will require taking off the LCD assembly and probably some wiring.
You can buy the parts from eBay and IBM parts.
From eBay:-
Bluetooth: http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=60Y3199&_sacat=0&_odkw=60Y4956&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l131...
Pamrest with FPR: http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=60Y4956&_sacat=0&_odkw=60Y4955&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l131...
Integrated Camera: http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=60Y9402
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Thinkpad T410 HDD upgrade

Hello,
I'm about to upgrade HDD on my thinkpad T410 and I can't decide what to buy. So, I need to decide between a WD Scorpio Black 750GB 7200RPM or a WD scorpio Blue 1 TB and 5400 rpm. So can you please help me decide which one is better for my computer Thanks.

Between the two, I would opt for the Scorpio Black. I replaced my original T510 HDD with a Scorpio Black. Then, I replaced it with a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid and it really improved performance, especially boot/load time.
I have now replaced the Momentus XT with a Samsung 830 SSD, and it is even faster, but only by about 10 seconds on boot/load.
Boot time to fingerprint/PW entry with the XT was about 38 seconds I sent the used XT to a friend, and the comment back was "Wow!"

T410 - Video Card upgrade capability?

Hi,
I want to upgrade nvidia NVS3100 in my T410 to a newer nvidia card.
Is this possible? Please advice. Thank you
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No. You could consider an eGPU solution:
http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/2109-diy-egpu-experiences-%5Bversion-2-0%5D.html
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T410 Screen Upgrade

Hi guys.
I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade the T410's screen from the normal Intel driven 1280x800 to the higher spec 1440x900?
My principal concern relates to the graphics chip. Will the higher resolution screen work with the Intel onboard graphics or was the higher spec screen an optional extra that worked in conjunction with a dedicated graphics chip? Also, if it is just a straight swap, are there any other considerations that I should be aware of and has anyone else done this before?
As always, thank you for your help.
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Robbie1979 wrote:
I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade the T410's screen from the normal Intel driven 1280x800 to the higher spec 1440x900?
Yes!
Resolution is independent from the graphics card built in the motherboard. The easiest would be to swap a full screen assembly, but you can just swap only the panel as well. Make sure you follow the steps explained in the HMM: click me!
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T410 RAM Upgrade

I am trying to upgrade my 4 GB of RAM to 16 GB ( 2 x 8 GB boards). After installing the boards and trying to reboot, Windows would not open up. The screen showed two options: repair mode and regular mode. Neither resulted in Windows starting up. I have Windows 7, 64 bit as my Operating System, so it should support 16 GB of RAM. I re-installed the original 4 GB and Windows booted up normally with no problem. Anyone have an idea what the problem is?
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Good day and welcome to the community.
IIRC, models prior to the *20 series only supported 8GB of system RAM, as 2x4GB.
This T410 thread, post 1 on page 2, may provide some additional insight for you.
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T410s Ram Upgrade

Will I have any issues putting ram from a supplier other than Lenovo in my T410s? I am constantly getting insufficient memory errors while running a few vm's on it.
As well I am seeing a max of 8GB. Is this correct? Or is there a way to get to 12GB. I dont see it listed on the Lenovo site.
Also, it currently has the 1066 MHz in it. I am going to go with the 1333MHz I guess. Will I need to do any sort of BIOS upgrade or will it autodetect the increase.

section8 wrote:
Will I have any issues putting ram from a supplier other than Lenovo in my T410s? I am constantly getting insufficient memory errors while running a few vm's on it.
As well I am seeing a max of 8GB. Is this correct? Or is there a way to get to 12GB. I dont see it listed on the Lenovo site.
Also, it currently has the 1066 MHz in it. I am going to go with the 1333MHz I guess. Will I need to do any sort of BIOS upgrade or will it autodetect the increase.
Any ram supplier will do, I have used several different brands before. With regards to 8GB, I am not so sure, theoretically you should be able to get 2x8GB to get 16GB.
The motherboard speed is 1066MHz and if you get a higher specification SODIMM like 1333Mhz,it means that the piece of hardware can function at 1333 and will function at lower frequency. However, tuning the motherboard speed to 1333, like what the overclockers do with their desktop may NOT be wise as the rest of the hardware connected to the motherbaord may not funcation in sync and you may get a lot of bluescreen.

T410s display port no longer works after lenovo / win7 upgrade

Arrggh... I have a Dell u2711h monitor that i connected to my t410s via display port. It worked fine until i did a lenovo driver updateand windows 7 update. Now, it just goes into powersaving mode with the display port. I backed out the windows7 updates, went back to a windows restore point from when i knew the dp worked, uinstalled / reinstalled the lenovo drivers for nvidia nvs 3100m optimus, audio, etc.
The HDMI cable works, the monitor works with display port off of another PC, but no longer on my t410s. Anybody have any ideas? I spent a lot of money getting a big monitor with a high resolution trhough dp, but now i can't use it. Very fustrating.
Any ideas?

Hi dft410s,
Please try in BIOS to isolate hardware/software issue. If problem remains, please contact local lenovo for machine inspection
Worldwide Support Center phone list for ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation systems
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?DocID=HT036550
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Windows 10 upgrade Thinkpad T410 Webcam Not Working After

I upgraded the factory Windows 7 Professional to Windows 10 Pro. During upgrade, everything went well. When setting up Skype, I found out that the integrated webcam does no longer work. Anybody had the same problem? Any solution|driver for Windows 10?

Hi
So here is how I solved the integrated camera being not recognized/detected by Windows 10.
- I went Into Device Manager, uninstalled the unrecognized USB device.
- Shut down the laptop. Removed the battery.
- Pry out the plastic frame surrounding the screen to uncover the camera.
- Remove the two screws retaining the camera and unplug it.
- put back the battery and wait for Windows to load and log in as usual.
- wait for all drivers and programs to load normally.
- plug the camera back in.
- you'll normally hear Windows detecting a new device and will automatically install it. Check your device manager for an imaging device. You should see an imaging device in the list.
- to test if it's working properly, you can use Skype and see if it detects the camera in the video settings.

T410 Hard Drive Upgrade

I need to figure out if a certain hard drive is compatible with the Lenovo t410. I don't know very much about laptop hard drives and was wondering if someone could help me out.
We use Lenovo ThinkPad T410 with Core i5 2.66 GHz.
We are looking at getting the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 HTS725032A9A364 - hard drive - 320 GB - SATA-300 for all of our laptops.
Does anyone see any problems with this? I don't but I don't want to be wrong.
Thanks in advance!

as long as it is 9.5 mm thick, sata and 2.5 inch format then it would work.
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