x201 has spontaneous restart flaw?

I was almost going to place my order when I read that the x201 suffers from spontaneous and random restarts?

How prevalent is this? There seems to be no fix yet either. They occur even on CTO models. Whats the deal?

 

I even heard that each restart will cause earthquake, tsunami randomly around the world. There seems to be no fix yet either. They also occur even on CTO models.

 

Actually, when a butterfly flaps his wings in Brazil, it causes a random X201 in the world to restart (chaos theory). The fix would be to exterminate all butterflies. In Brazil.

Seriously though..... what?

 

steampot - please provide direct links to where you read this.   thank you.

everyone else - please hold off on the snarky comments until links are provided.   thanks.

 

really guys? snarky comments? nice to know the community has your back on $1k purchases. thanks

here
x201 random shutdown... - Lenovo Community

 

Come on steampot, we would like to help you, we just need a little more information. The W510 that i bought last year feb/march had the first version BIOS had the same problem but the next BIOS update solved it. The w510 has the i7 quad core cpu and a fairly powerful Nvidia GPU and create a lot of heat. But the X201 only has the Dual core i5/i7 and onboard GPU and shouldn't have too much heat problem. My first X201 purchase is around april/may last year and should have the same BIOS as the person who claim to have his x201 random shutdown in the forum. But i did not experience any of this problem. I could be just some random, random experience.

 

I'm on this subforum for quite some time and don't remember anyone ever complaining about it. You provided zero info in the original post. Second, the stuff I read in the followup thread on lenovo forums is full of complains (I haven't read all the way through) and no actual useful info. Is there a BSOD? Does it happens with clean install, are all the drivers newest from the Lenovo web, latest BIOS, etc etc....

What did you expect?

 

Yeah dude, seriously man what did you expect ya noob?! Next time you better provide every and all references to every single word you write on the forums here, including a disclaimer statement and preferrably your and your family's social security numbers for future verification and referencing purposes also. Its the way its done around here. Gosh! <\napoleon dynamite>

Hehe, I know how this works: shoot first, ask questions later. No, in this case, more like admit nothing, deny everything and make counter accusations: 'no you are wrong, oh you have a source now, well you should have provided it in the first place, so Im still right to make fun of you and its still your fault'.

Anyway if it has a flaw they may exchange it. Something like this is prob just a bad mobo, e.g. thermal paste is not applied properly and cpu overheats or something.

 

LOL... OK I didn't mean anything like that. But I don't follow other computer forums (Why? Dell/Apple trying to hide complain threads for example. Plus NBR is better. ) and no one here that I remember complained about it.

 

We have several X201's. No complaints of spontaneous shutdowns so far. I wouldn't worry about it, Steampot.

 

I've been running my brand new X201 hard, nonstop, ever since I slammed the door in the UPS guy's face yesterday. (Sorry, UPS guy.) I'm running all the latest driver and bios updates from Lenovo, and this thing hasn't rebooted except for when I've asked it to (swapping between Windows and Linux).

I seriously wouldn't worry - and a small subset of folks who received bad hardware, or didn't update bios/drivers correctly is hardly a reason to steer away from such an incredible unit. For every user complaining of issues, there are tons of happy X201 users. I'm sure you'll fall into the latter group.

 

A small fleet of seven X201s with all different configurations, the newest being a I5 480 and the slowest an X201i I3 and the fastest being a I7. Also, a few x200s and never heard of this. We keep the drivers and programs updated though. The only problem I have is with one x201, it is in the hands of a 80+ year old that has never used a computer before. Constantly having to reset the toolbar, programs, email, etc. This guy has no clue yet. I'm thinking that a severe reg hack is in his future.

Conclusion: It's either "one" out Thousands manufactured that went/is bad, or bad driver that has been replaced by Lenovo already, or it's user error. (loaded conflicting bad drivers, conflicting program, or something along this line.) I sure wouldn't pass a solid lappy over a few bad eggs.

 

Have been using my X201i without any problems whatsoever. I too never heard of any issues with it.