Thinkpad T60P Audio crackling and crash during sleep

I have been using my brand new T60P for a month now, and I have noticed three problems...

(1) The audio sometimes "crackles." It sounds like static on top of whatever music is being played. i am convinced this is a software problem, as this crackling occures on the thinkpad speakers and my third party headphones (I am 100% sure the headphones are defective free).

This craclking sound also doesnt occur all the time, maybe twice a day. A temporary fix is to simple stop the music source and resuming it. That will replay the song without that static noise.

Does this problem sound familiar with anyone? Any solutions? I have searched google, but could not find anyhthing...

(2) The computer cannot wake up from sleep mode (I am assuming it crashed). I can hit the hotkeys fn + f4 to enter sleep mode normally. I have verified in the control panel that this hotkey command is to enter sleep mode. The moon icon in the thinkpad frame is lit a few seconds after I press these set of buttons. However, the unit is unresponsive after this. i cannot wake this unit up by pressing anything on the keyboard or mouse.

The only remedy to this is by holding the power button for four seconds to restart the system...

very annoying...
any fixes?

(3) The beepings! They are so loud. I was able to disable the beepings that come from chaning power states. How do I disable other beepings? I think sometimes when you press an invalid combination of keys, it beeps very loudly. How do i disable this?

 

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That's just bumping up the thread to the first page so that more people view the thread.

For #2, I have the same problem when in sleep, the keyboard or the mouse doesn't wake up the computer, but TAPPING the power button causes it to resume. DONT hold it down to restart it, but just tap it when in sleep mode to resume your session.

Hope this helps.

 

How did you turn the beeps off from changing states? I have similar questions that you posed.

 

To disable this kind of beeping,

go to countrol panel >> mobile PC power plan >> Thinkpad Power Manager and uncheck the beeps

 

There is also another way if you are using Windows XP -
http://www.randyrants.com/2004/02/ibm_thinkpad_t4.html

Worked for me This also not only eliminates the beeping when power states change, but also when you press many keys all at once as well.

 

I also noticed that my T60p crashes for no apparent reason. I did it about 3 times in the last week or so. I cannot relate the crash to anything. Could it be overheating? It does get quite hot on the bottom(mainly on the left part if one is looking at the screen). Any ideas?

 

I just had a my third crash today. I was using the thinkpad advanced docking station. The power went out, then there was a notification that the system just found the network connection, and the system froze. Does anybody have a clue? The other two crashes happened while i was using the docking station too.

 

I've also encountered #1 before, very annoying especially when I'm working on something in Premiere. It's almost like something in the driver forgot to clear a buffer somewhere and it's just not getting and decoding all of the samples being played back, hence the static.

You might try installing the newest SoundMAX driver HERE and see if that helps. I installed it a couple days ago on my T60 and since then I haven't heard the static, however I'm still testing it to be sure.

 

Greetings to all ! my first post here

Yep, this crash happened to me 3 times during the 6 weeks I have this T60 Vista business OS.
The last time was just last night
Vista tells me that it has recovered from a crash (bluescreen) and even tells me that there might be more information in the minidump and another file at:
C:\Users\ username\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-8013022-0.sysdata .xml
Looking in that last file (the minidump is too geekish for me) it looks like a xml version of a msinfo file, listning all the drivers and hardware.

I might just call the Lenovo help desk and open a ticket....
Or is there someone here that has more on this?