Today I managed once again to bring my aging Thinkpad back to life!
I had it close to 8 years now and before today it needed repairs twice.
This time the power supply died and the power socket needed replacing as one cable was loosing connection. While I was "in there" (it's somewhat annoying to get to everything) I also put a replacement touchpad as mine was misbehaving for few weeks now.
I'm just glad to have it back, hopefully I will last me a while longer...