problem with shut down of T61

Hi, I have purchased T61 with vista home basic.Then I wiped out my hard disk and installed xp pro.Now my system is not shutting down.It keeps displaying "saving your settings" screen.can u help me??

 

are you sure you are shutting it down or are you putting it into hibernate? Do you have the service pack?

check out this link http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307274

 

I have the same computer, and same problem. I have tried millions of things to get this comp to shutdown correctly. Anything from bios settings to every single windows patch i can find out there. I have downloaded all the patches from lenovo, and have gone through troubleshooters. Through all this i have found some things that i think are link to the problem such as. 1.) DirectX versions 2.) certain thinkvantage programs 3.) hot fixes from lenovo 4.) intel chipset installed from intel and not from the lenovo site. For all i know all 4 of those can be the problem but i have no resolution for you.. sorry, however play around with the things listed above see if you get something to work. And one more thing i flashed the latest bios for the t61 as of october 18th and i still have this problem.

 

Did you have similar problems out of the box with Vista or is this limited to XP?

I have not run XP on my T61, other than in a VM. No issues with the VM, but there may be something with physical vs virtual hardware.

If you ordered Turbo Memory, did you disable it using the disabler on the Lenovo support site? Any Unknown devices in Device Manager?

 

The problem is on the Audio Device.
I've installed all the driver whitout problem except for the audio driver.
When you complete the installation of Audio Driver the system will not be able to shutdown again.

I think Lenovo didn't yet release a fix for this problem..we hope they'll do ver very soon

 

i am having the same problem. downgraded my t61 from vista basic to xp pro sp2. updated everything, and it all seems to work, with the exception of shutting down.

this is the second time i've done this - same results.

don't know if it harms the machine. i just do a hard shutdown.

sucks, but any advice would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

 

a bit late for this....but
Do you have "Wake On LAN" enabled? This can happen if WOL is enabled, the NIC is set to wake on "directed packet" and another machine on the LAN tries to access it. I know that's a pretty rare combo, but I've seen it.
or try shutting off the wifi before shutting down....

 

Had this problem on my T61p. I just wiped the harddrive to fix it b/c I couldn't come up w/ any other way to fix the problem. If anyone does happen to find out the root cause, please post.

 

I met the same problem with shutdown T61 with XP OS. I install the IMSM driver for SATA harddisk, the problem is solved.

the driver can be found in Lenovo's official website, I post the link below for your information, skip the spaces before you paste. Hope it can help.

h t t p:// think.lenovo.com.cn/support/driver/detail.aspx?docID=DR1197539101703&docTypeID=DOC_TYPE_DRIVER

 

My T61 also came with Vista Home Premium installed, I didn't liked it so I reinstalled XP SP3 (slipstreamed).

Before booting with the CD I made sure to Boot the BIOS under Compatibility Mode so that the SATA HDD is recognized.
Everything went smoothly, first thing I did after the installation was to install the chipset driver, reboot. Then install the AHCI driver provided by Lenovo, change back to AHCI mode in BIOS, laptop boots fine to desktop.
From there just installed all the drivers: Video, Audio, LAN, WLAN, Onscreen Display, Power Management Driver, Battery Maximiser...

So far the laptop has always shutdown completely by itself, just like the other Thinkpad's I've done a clean install on them.
I'm unwary this problem existed on T61's.

For your info my T61 has the GMA X3100, no Turbo Memory, No IrDa, no memory card reader, SXGA+ panel.
I don't install any other Lenovo crapware such as Access Connection, and so on, I think those are useless IMO.
Try slipstreaming Service Pack 3 on a XP CD to see if it works, and also install the drivers in the order I stated above.

swartere: you could be spot on the source of the problem, maybe the source is that you need the UAC (UAA)?? HD audio driver to make the audio works, since in SP2 you need to install a separate package than the standard sound driver, XP SP3 doesn't need it since the support for HD is integrated, so maybe there's a conflict of the driver of UAA working with SP2.

Just my 2 cents.