Lenovo W520 Owner's Thread

[kimocal]

I got one on eBay for $19 from uq511 and it works fine and is the right size. I believe Volker has the same one.

I am about to order this one unless anyone thinks it won't work.

2nd HDD hard drive Caddy For LENOVO Thinkpad T510 W510 | eBay

That's the one I also recently purchased and am now waiting to arrive. I bought it based upon Volker's report on it.

[hrana]

And on that note, could someone who has the RAID caddy that does not leave a gap post the FRU part number for the proper caddy? Thanks in advance!

According to this page it should be 60Y5513 but my RAID-enabled W520 has this line:

1 60Y7204 SBB RAID VIA BAYADAPTER $0.00

I suggest giving Lenovo a call.

[ukieandrew]

I am about to order this one unless anyone thinks it won't work.

2nd HDD hard drive Caddy For LENOVO Thinkpad T510 W510 | eBay

I ordered this one too. Waiting for it to arrive. But it is 12.7 so, I do not see why there should be a gap.

[bherila]

I ordered this one too. Waiting for it to arrive. But it is 12.7 so, I do not see why there should be a gap.

I do not think there will be a gap but I'm not sure it will work at all, since the photo doesn't show the plastic peg sticking out the back.

In terms of giving Lenovo a call -- it's useless. They insist that the 9.5mm caddy is the correct one for the W520. One even says that he thought the gap was normal and by design, and that he'd never heard of a Lenovo HDD caddy that didn't leave a 1/2" gap! But he did offer to RMA the caddy for me if I wanted to.

Also, we should probably move this talk to the dedicated thread to prevent any additional pollution on this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/leno...work-w520.html

[power7]

Has anyone done a clean install of Win 7 64bit? I've lost functionality in my ThinkVantage key. Not that I want to use it, but was wondering how to get it working. All the Lenovo software and drivers are installed.

You can get the key to launch any executable of your choice by patching the registry as below:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\TPHOTKEY\8001]
@="c:\\Program Files\\MyProgram\\MyProgram.exe"
"File"="c:\\Program Files\\MyProgram\\MyProgram.exe"

In a similar manner can get Fn+F1,Fn+F10, Fn+F11 etc. to launch something.

[power7]

Any Canadians in this thread receive their w520. if so could you tell me how long it took from the day it shipped to the day you received it

7-8 calendar days to GTA. Sales rep over the phone can usually give a tracking number.

[power7]

I've e-mailed my rep to see if there is any way to get the caddy they are putting in the RAID models. I do not want dust and cruft building up inside my hard drive bay.

The "original lenovo" 9.5mm ultrabay adapter is a disaster

However a 10cm piece of 0.25" self-adhesive foam weatherstripping tape from home depot fixes all issues. No gap left, black, does not rattle.

[LeafHater]

7-8 calendar days to GTA. Sales rep over the phone can usually give a tracking number.

thanks I live in ottawa so the time should be similar

[Ferrari_Freak]

7-8 calendar days to GTA. Sales rep over the phone can usually give a tracking number.

Thanks a lot for the info. I'm in Windsor so I'm hoping for a delivery early next week.

[kirayamato26]

7-8 calendar days to GTA. Sales rep over the phone can usually give a tracking number.

Thank you. I'm in the GTA so that means it should be here tomorrow or some time shortly after.