~Toughbooktalk~

Just "received" them today. Missing caddies and cd drives. But they all boot and look better than my own toys do. Is there a way to check the hours on these? Not finding it in bios.

Old School..... grab by the the hinge side and shake. If the handle falls open than it has a few hours on it.

Right here by my feet is a 38,000 hour 29MK-5.....looks good...works good.

I have multiple 51 hdd.....in wrapper. Working cows next two weeks........be patient.

Now this is a working cow.....maybe directing traffic while they upright a trailer...

Sadlmkr wrote:Old School..... grab by the the hinge side and shake. If the handle falls open than it has a few hours on it.

Right here by my feet is a 38,000 hour 29MK-5.....looks good...works good.

I have multiple 51 hdd.....in wrapper. Working cows next two weeks........be patient.

Ok. Shook. No handles twitched. Good sign? Heck they are hard to PULL out, didn't figure they would drop out. I'm kicking myself now. Because I didn't bother to boot them each up. 1 had a functional hdd with OS on it. Time to play.

Aint that a kick in the pants. One of these lists as a touch screen. No touch screen. I'll recheck bios settings but nada on the touch so far. But hey no prob. She's a beauty just the same. Wonder what mark these are?

Going to try MX-15 and 4m on one of the 29's. Already know that Watt runs well enuff. Updated. No I am not. Both MX 14 thru 15 are for pae and this machine requires a non pae kernel. Watt works tho.

So far just DSL, Watt , and LXLE are working. Sure can't run minecraft on it.

I tried minecraft with mine on it under Ubuntu 10.10 and got it to work. I had every setting at the bottom though and it was still a little buggy. Halo played smooth though. I had it set up with a dual boot where ubuntu was installed under windows xp.

Well they did a patch for MX15 and now it has both kernels. Boots and runs, slowly, from live dvd. Have a ubuntu 10.10 might try, an old copy of EEE buntu worked, but there will be no support. Anti-X 15 works, MX's other side. Going to try micro watt. I seem to like watt now.

I just reloaded that toughbook last night to try some newer stuff on it. It's a Mk3 CF-29 I just dropped windows 7 pro on it from the xp install that was on it. Once I get processes cut down, etc and a linux dual booted on it let me see what I can do on getting minecraft running again on it if it will.