Grabbed this T40 locally (Pentium M 705, 768MB Ram, 40GB 5400 clunky sounding Hitachi hdd, Radeon 7500).
Cleaned the Keyboard and the fan, upgraded to 1GB Ram, ordered a replacement Pentium M 735 (same speed 1.5GHz, but cooler and with 2MB L2 cache), a 120GB ssd and a sata->44pinATA adapter, a mini PCI Broadcom wifi card (was missing) and 2x 1GB sticks. Sorted the Bios update and the Windows XP for now (including drivers, software and games), however there's no sound coming out from the speakers. Headphones work ok so it looks like there might be a pinched cable or even faulty speakers.
I also get random stuck key error messages in POST, might be battery related. It's fun though.
Any suggestions, much appreciated!
Miss the Monkey Island days, the Space Quest days, even The Longest Journey days.