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    T61p problems. I need your help.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by zia0108, Jan 30, 2008.

  1. zia0108

    zia0108 Newbie

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    Hi all,

    I've been reading quite a bit in this forum. I found a lot of valuable info and really enjoy reading it. Thanks for all the great posts and replies.

    I am a new owner of a T61p. Yet, I have been experiencing a lot of problem with my machine, i.e. BSOD, freezes, abrupt reboot in Windows (Vista Home Premium). I even had BSOD and freezes after getting in the service partition (i.e. the BlueButton/F11 at boot). I can't recover the machine to the factory state since the option is not there (there are only two options. Both say 'recover from backup'?) It rebooted itself in the middle of creating the recovery discs. I noticed that the HDD LED is either flashing all the time or solidly ON. Plus, it makes scratching noise!

    I installed a new 2GB of memory (Buffalo) to it. It got worse. I read a thread here. S/b had a similar problem after adding more RAM; but I could not find the thread.

    Edit: I ran memtest 1.70+ with both modules in for about 14hrs. Memtest found no error.

    Thanks for all your suggestions and help. Truly appreciate it.


    ---- Machine specs ----
    Type 8891CTO
    14.1"
    c2d 7300
    1GB Samsung - orig + 2GB Buffalo
    128MB nvidia fx570
    80GB hdd (Fujisu)
    MS Windows Vista Home Premium
     
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  2. bsodder

    bsodder Notebook Evangelist

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    do you have Turbo Memory?
     
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    zia0108 Newbie

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    No, I don't.
     
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    bsodder Notebook Evangelist

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    You really should call Lenovo tech support. Sounds like a serious problem - maybe a motherboard replacement, although a disk drive failure is also possible. Have you run PCDoctor5? Test everything. Lenovo will want the PCDoctor results anyway. Also, go to control panel->system->advanced system settings->startup and recovery-. and uncheck 'restart automatically'. After that, blue screen will freeze, and you can write down the error message on the screen and post. Someone may be able to help you with that info.
     
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  5. ed_h

    ed_h Notebook Consultant

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    Unfortunately it appears that you purchased a 'lemon'. They don't make (Lenovo) Thinkpads like they used to and they are definitely not as reliable as the good old (IBM) T42 or T43's.

    I've had other issues with my 3 week old T61p.
     
    ed_h, Jan 30, 2008
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