Starting the repaired IBM ThinkCentre

Well my suspicion was correct, it had a bad PATA ribbon to the hard drive. Whoever thought it was a good idea to smash all the wires under the drives liek that was an idiot. I've got a temporary fix in it right now, ordered a new ribbon, which should be here soon. With that fixed though, the computer runs great!

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[Hollrobb]

My stepson got himself one of these systems today and so far it seems to be working great .I came here to see if i could find anything about them i should be aware of so thanks for the heads up on the ribbon cable being crammed tightly under the hardware. My main concern when i first saw his was cooling. Being small like they are is cooling a problem or have you never had any issue with your system. Thanks for sharing your video and take care.

[ThelnsomniacGamer]

@Hollrobb Sorry for the late response. Cooling is not much of an issue with this computer. Its parts don't get incredibly hot. Just don't be leaving it on all day and all night. Turn it off when it doesn't need to be on. Will save you money too.

[TheLASTTABOO]

I changed the cd rom in my thinkcentre, and cant get the ribbon, (Just like the one you had there) to fit. On the motherboard is a 30 pin and on the ribbon is 40 pin, how is this? I'm pretty sure I took it out of the same socket, can you help?

[ThelnsomniacGamer]

@TheLASTTABOO sound's like you mixed up the CD drive ribbon with the floppy drive ribbon. The one for the floppy drive is a bit smaller.

[TheLASTTABOO]

@ThelnsomniacGamer Thanks for your response. I got it, socket was hiding under a bunch of wires. Cheers.

[ThelnsomniacGamer]

@plzdonhack Yes. this computer has DDR ram.

[plzdonhack]

@ThelnsomniacGamer u mean this computer has DDR ram?

[ThelnsomniacGamer]

@plzdonhack I'm not sure what you mean. The computer in this video had DDR memory. The computer I'm using now has 8gb DDR2 quad channel (faster than most DDR3 configurations) lol

[plzdonhack]

2GB ram is a lot for 6,7 yrs old computer what type of ram u have?DDR or DDR2 or DDR3(perhaps..)

[gjilaniicity]

@beautifultechno the same ibm think centre i have. The parameters are:Pentium 4,1.5 gigabytes of ram,Cpu 3.0gigabytes,and the hdd 160 gigabytes.But i don't know if ram memory is right (1.5)maybe can demage something in my pc what do u think?should i imidiatly change from 1.5 to 2 of ram?