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    My T61p displays only black and white, help!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by GrA, Jan 19, 2010.

  1. GrA

    GrA Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yesterday night I was watching movie just fine but this morning, the screen only displays black and white.

    I tried changing the driver, didn't help.

    I tried disabling the fx570m device, my color is back but i have only 640x480 resolution.

    I tried booting into safe mode, my color is back.

    Every time I boot into vista, the color stays for like 5 secs, and then it just suddenly turned into gray scale.

    I need your help! Please!
     
    GrA, Jan 19, 2010
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Your GPU is probably faulty.

    I think you have the G84 core right?
    Because that has a known fault.
     
    moral hazard, Jan 19, 2010
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  3. not.sure

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    Geez, they are dropping like flies...
     
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    Try a system restore to make sure it's not driver related

    Colors might have to do with ICC/ICM profiles

    But since you have an Nvidia card there's a high chance of that failing...
     
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  5. GrA

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    i checked the core, its G84M

    known fault like what??
     
    GrA, Jan 19, 2010
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    Another issue, my machine is always very very HOT (mostly when i play games, even war3 and D2, they aren't using a lot of horsepower but... i don tknow). i can fry eggs on it. The fan is working, i can feel the hot air coming out.
     
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  7. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Heat + G84M = dead GPU.

    The BGA solder cracks, you get a bad connection from the chip to the motherboard.

    Google "G84 and G86 fault".

    Extend your warranty and get ready to send in the notebook for repairs.

    Do you have warranty?
     
    moral hazard, Jan 19, 2010
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  8. GrA

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    I have warranty, i bought it 2 years ago in with a 3 year warrant
     
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    Damn it.. they are all bad.

    if the repair guy change it to another G84M, it will eventually go bad too
     
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  10. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Unless you keep the temp under 60C (which is hard to do).

    Maybe when they fix the notebook, sell it.
     
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    no way it could be kept under 60c.....
     
    GrA, Jan 19, 2010
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  12. GrA

    GrA Notebook Enthusiast

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    when i bought this laptop, i thought it will last for a pretty long time.....
     
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    hopefully you got warranty
     
    lead_org, Jan 19, 2010
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  14. thinkpad knows best

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    60?????!!! I thought it was 70, damn. They are really all failing at around the same time though, surely not coincidence.
     
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    Damn, its happening more often nowadays. This reminds me that I need to sell my T61 ASAP while there's still some warranty left.
     
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    I've still got a warranty till next December, if mine fails between then i'll just get it serviced and keep using it, surely i'll have a new ThinkPad by then.
     
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    I think in one of the articles about our beloved nvidia GPUs I read that in particular downclocking the memory clock should "somewhat" help (anybody saw that, too, or has the ref?).

    Anyway, that's easy to do and hardly impacts the performance.
     
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    Thank god i've only paid 450 dollars for my R61 with NVS 140m
     
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