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    X61 - Brand new, screen turns green/red + system hard lock. Please help!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by diablo266, Aug 12, 2007.

  1. diablo266

    diablo266 Newbie

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    Hello everyone, i picked up a new X61 yesterday from microcenter and about an hour after getting it out of the box i closed the lid and set it down, upon returning the screen had changed to a series of colors and lines with what was running behind barely visible but stagnant with the system totally unresponsive requiring a hard shutdown. Thinking that vista was the culprit and the fact that i hate vista i did a clean install of XP Pro and all seemed fine for about a day until it happened again. This time i didn't close the lid but i did move it and set it down gently. Also, both times i had windows set to "do nothing" when closing the lid so that shouldn't have any bearing on this. Is the active hard drive protection causing the crash? That is the only thing that makes sense to me. I have turned the sensitivity down on the active hd protection and i will see if this happens again. Thanks for any help in advance!
     
  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hard drive protection should not screw up the screen...

    It sounds like the laptop is a lemon to me though.
     
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    diablo266 Newbie

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