Vista SP2 broke my Access Connections.

Now when I boot up, AC says I'm connected but I can't open any webpages at all.

I have to disconnect from my current profile, reconnect again before everything works fine.

Is nobody experiencing this???

Hi all, I was using Windows Vista with SP1 on my X60, and everything was working fine. My X60 would connect to the Internet (at home) right after I boot it up. After upgrading to SP2, Access connections would connect and say I am connected, but opening up IE results in a 404 error (meaning there is ...

Thank you very much mixz1. You just saved me the thought of re-installing Vista just for this crappy bug!

Do you ever get reminders to reset your battery gauge?

Get the one that matches your FSB speed.

If I crunch numbers with my X60 (SETI, RC5, etc), I get 90+c. But I don't get the thermal shutdown issue.

With normal web surfing, checking of emails (< 10% CPU usage), the temperature hovers around 55-60C.

To reply the original question, I'd say that it is OK, if you leave it there for like a few hours (like, when you need to go out for the day or something). But, not too to leave it like that for more than 3-4 days, IMHO. Personally, for storing batteries, I only store it at 40%, and it's working gre...

For starters, you could try to uninstall the battery software and reinstall it. Get the latest from the driver support website.

If that doesn't work, try to flash to the latest BIOS. It might (or not) solve your issues.

If all else fails, I hope you still have warranty remaining on that laptop.

Great. This is just perfect. And I do not have to worry about the TP heat emission overheating the TP or damaging the LCD, when its lid is closed and the bottom attached to the UltraBase? I currently own a X60. Previously I owned an a20p. I bought a X60 as a replacement because I killed my a20p whi...

More RAM wouldn't hurt at all. Vista could always use all the RAM you give it. If you intend to do that though, I would suggest paying a few dollars off to get a higher-quality RAM like Crucial or Corsair ValueSelect, or you may face problems mixing RAMs of different brands in your current laptop. T...

Looks like somebody was listening in... Display driver (Intel 940GML, 945GM, GL960, GM965 - 950, X3100) for Windows XP, 2000 - ThinkPad Version 6.14.10.4860 [Important] CRT resolution will be changed after dock/undock operation. [Important] Sometimes, LCD displays blank screen after unplugging the A...

If you have the X61s in the ultrabay, the vga port on the X61s will be disabled by default.

If you want to use the port on the X61s, you'll have to ditch the ultrabay.

You can try displaying an image with many dark/light edges on it for the monitor to sync on, then pressing the auto sync button on your monitor. I have to agree with trying that. I had to press the auto-sync button twice sometimes to get a sharp image. The strange thing with my monitor is that duri...

I have the same problems as well, with a X60. The settings are not "remembered" as well. But other times, it remembers after I had powered it on out of the ultrabay. One of the major issues I have is that if you have an ext. monitor plugged in, during BIOS boot up, the POST screen will go to the ext...

jamess wrote:Good idea, will try that too. But won't that destroy my bios settings or something due to internal battery power "loss".

Where did you get that idea?

I've been running without battery most of the time, and nothing bad has happened.

Mine's rubbed off too - nothing we can do about it though.

You can just use that software (either of the two mentioned above) to change the partition type over to "0x12", and it should work again.

You have to check that the hidden partition has partition type "0x12" (Compaq Diagnostics).

You could use Acronis or Partition Magic to check that. Not sure if there's any freeware that is able to do that.

When you formatted your machine, did you nuke the hidden partition as well?

If it's no longer there, that'll explain why the button doesn't work.

I think I managed to resolve this issue: I changed the processor scheduling under the system properties to adjust for programs instead of background services.

*Edit*: Spoke too soon: The problem seems to be less pronounced when I've got 1 stick of RAM running in it, compared to 2 stick before.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try that later.

Just a quick update, I tried to remove one of the sticks of ram I had, leaving it to boot up with only one stick.

WinXP went into a 16-bit color mode, and the disk chugged along pretty sluggishly like it was running in safe mode.

8 passes of memtest, with 0 errors. I did try a factory restore but it still exhibited the same symptoms. Spybot reports nothing.

Try to run Memtest86+ on the system, one stick of ram at a time.

Thanks a lot for your help bhtooefr. I really appreciate that. I'll try running Memtest86+ later tonight. How do you think that might be the problem? The thread names are all called "ntkrnlpa.exe". It seems to be an NT kernel process, which explains why it can't be killed. Or it might be that the pr...

Same error message occurs; I can't kill the thread. I did however, try to suspend the threads one by one (there are 24 of them nasty critters). But the spike occurred with the next thread after I suspended the first one. This came to a point when the system simply locked up because I suspended too m...

Yes, I am already using ProcessExplorer, that is how I managed to find out that it was the process "ntkrnlpa.exe" that was causing it.

*Edit*: I have tried killing the process, but with an error message: "Unable to terminate thread thread: Access denied."

This is a first generation X60 from Mar '06. The process is hidden under the "System" process, and it's one of the 10 or so threads that's spawned under it. Killing it does not work; some other thread with the same name just "takes over its job". I have tried a factory restore, no go there. I certai...

A combination of both. Important stuff like Rescue and Recovery, creating recovery media won't be listed but most other thinkvantage applications will be presented to you to choose from. Don't all Thinkpads come at factory settings? Why'd you want to do that again? Also, I'm not sure about the newe...

Two things I have tried:

1. I disabled Trackpoint in BIOS. The screen still turns back on after some time.

2. If I run on battery, the above does not happen ever.

Note that this problem happens when the CPU is under constant 100% load. If I leave it to idle, there is no problem ever either.

I don't think so. You're up against a wall, unless you use those software overclocking. But I wouldn't recommending using those.