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    problem with my t60: jerky mouse and no wireless

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dmc, Jul 29, 2008.

  1. dmc

    dmc Notebook Geek

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    Hey. Recently (today), my thinkpad has slowed down to a crawl and every application I run is super jerky. When I move the mouse, it moves for about 3 seconds then stops and jumps to where it should have gone to. Also, in applications, youtube lets say, the video will play a few frames, stop and then continue.

    I have also lost my wireless connections. Under network connections, there is no longer any wireless or lan icons. The thinkpad wireless programs still work and they pick up signal strength and think that they are connected but when I try to do anything online, it doesnt work.

    I'm wondering if its a hardware issue or if I can restore the comp from my last backup (which was in 2006 lol). Ideally there will be some update or driver thing that I can download to fix it entirely.

    This happened pretty much overnight so I've been really confused. Thanks for all the help!
     
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    Which ThinkPad model?

    When the slowdown happens, what's your CPU percentage? What process takes up the most CPU during these slowdowns. (check task manager)

    For the wireless, which graphics card do you have?
     
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    is you cpu fan running?

    use tpfancontrol to check fan and temps. I think it might be overheating
     
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    its a t60 running XP with a x1300 (64mb) ati graphics card. The cpu and memory dont spike when each slowdown occurs. I have 66 processes running and the one that takes up the most is my anti virus at about 33mb. Theres nothing out of the ordinary in the task manager though. I have 1.5gigs of ram and have never had a problem before yesterday.

    Its strange because I lost all wireless connections in windows AND have this jerky processing problem at the same time. hmm..
     
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    slight update...i can connect to wireless networks through the thinkpad software successfully. However, the windows connections are still gone.

    the computer does not get jerky if i run it on ac power all the time but it will get jerky if i unplug it and continue to get jerky even if i plug it back in. Really really strange...
     
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