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    Issues with clean install on a T60

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by honavery, Apr 14, 2008.

  1. honavery

    honavery Newbie

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    I ordered a new SATA, 250 GB hard drive for a T60 I am working on. Installed the hard drive with only a minor issue (BIOS setting). Installed Windows XP SP2 with no issues, installed the network driver, then downloaded the Lenovo System Update utility to get all other updates (drivers, etc.). This way I could pick and choose with "special" Lenovo software I wanted to install.

    Everything was going fine. Then I tried to boot from the battery and after the initial Windows is loading screen, it just came up with a black screen. Keyboard unresponsive. It was somewhat random, and seemed to work everytime when I had it plugged in. Another issue I started having was after login, the keyboard and mouse would just stop working. It didn't appear to freeze, they would just stop working. Both of these issues were happening intermittently with no apparent pattern.

    Since then though, things have gotten progressively worse. I'm to the point now where I can't boot up at all either with power or on battery without one of those 2 issues. I don't really understand why things have gotten worse, as I haven't changed anything, but they have.

    I know there are a lot of threads on doing a fresh install on one of these machines, but I was wondering if anyone knew why this happened. I have a backup plan and that's what I'm doing now, but for future reference it would be really helpful to know the "secret" to getting this to work correctly.

    Thanks.
     
    honavery, Apr 14, 2008
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    honavery Newbie

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    Just to let everyone know, I took an image of the hard drive that came in the computer and applied it to new hard drive and it worked flawlessly. It must have something to do with the order I installed the drivers? That seems silly.
     
    honavery, Apr 17, 2008
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