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    check whether your T61 has a defect display chip

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jocular, Apr 23, 2008.

  1. jocular

    jocular Notebook Enthusiast

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    I heard that Lenovo may assemble a defect display chip NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M into your T61 without any noticeable impact. Only way to find out is diagnostics with PC Doctor for DOS. You can download the latest PC-Doctor for dos from Lenovo web site, and burn into CD, and then run test on VIDEO. You might get fail with error code 17666.

    Those guys who bought their T61s when Lenovo had a big discount (above 25% off) promotion need to watch out!
     
    jocular, Apr 23, 2008
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    ..........and? If there's no noticeable impact, what's the point?
     
    Bg~, Apr 23, 2008
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    the temperature of GPU keeps increasing, so the CPU fan will run more frequently.
     
    jocular, Apr 23, 2008
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    ssnseawolf Notebook Consultant

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    That doesn't make much sense. Why would Lenovo be receiving faulty NVIDIA hardware in the first place, let alone solder it to customer motherboards?

    Furthermore, if they were slapping on defective hardware, it would be disabled in favor of the integrated graphics and would be sucking up no wattage.

    I believe (but am not positive) that laptops with discrete graphics get shipped with a 90W power supply, while laptops with integrated graphics get the 65W ones. In the unusual event that a bad graphics card was being supplied to customers, and that such a graphics card was taking current, they would be forced to supply different chargers which would be extraordinarily unlikely.
     
    ssnseawolf, Apr 24, 2008
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    The same reason they put a LCD from a T60p into my T61p?
     
    Ben_J, Apr 24, 2008
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    jocular, Apr 24, 2008
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