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- Tue May 06, 2008 11:22 pm
- Forum: Windows OS (Versions prior to Windows 7)
- Topic: SP3 Windows XP... what's the verdict?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 31640
- Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:20 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T61 - No boot for a few hours after BSOD (Pic)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2242
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:39 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Setting up your Ultrabay HD to boot into Acronis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2690
pae, For interest, please describe what you mean by a "high risk user". I assume I am the same....putzing the Pc to death until some failure occurs. In my case, I am always trying a new o/s or software or hardware. What type of risk taking putzing do you do? How often does your hard drive fail when ...
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:42 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Setting up your Ultrabay HD to boot into Acronis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2690
zern, Funny....I was also preparing for a trip and put in a 2nd 150GB hard drive in the ultra bay. But in my case, I had set up a separate boot via BIOS for Ubuntu 7.10. On the primary hard drive, I have a boot into XP Pro. I have Acronis on XP Pro and Partimage on Ubuntu. On both hard drives I have...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:00 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T61: Need Help with booting problem (Virus?)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 632
wahoo, Here are some suggestions: ...get your data first by booting up with a live linux cd....like ubuntu 7.10. Linux can read your windows files and copy them to usb storage. ...then test your RAM by downloading Memtest86 v3.4 iso. Boot it up and run it thru 2 full passes. ...then download Hiren's...
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:33 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Your opinion is appreciated!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2230
Recommend WSXGA. I have the combo you are considering....and it is great. WUXGA is a little hard on the eyes unless you are younger than 25. By the way, with either screen, you can use the CTRL ++ for increasing font size dependent on your application. Quite useful.....in Mozilla font not only incre...
- Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:10 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Thinkpad Outsourcing and Factory Codes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1997
Newt, Your topic is a good one. In another thead we were trying to nail down the culprit manufacturing plant producing the faulty motherboard. Found this Lenovo PDF on their manufacturing sites: http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/lenovo/procurement/Guidelines/volume/Lenovo_Volume_5_Part_Labels_41U3001.pdf And...
- Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:59 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Trouble installing a new Atheros Card
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2876
padhead, is that a pcmcia card or internal pci card? lenovo has their BIOS set to accept their approved internal cards only....if that is the problem. What is the card model/chipset? Otherwise, wireless cards can be a bit touchy. If that is not the issue, keep playing with the settings. Are you usin...
- Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:23 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T61p configuration - anything you'd get differently?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5003
- Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:24 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T61p DVD drive (UJDA775) doesn't work properly
- Replies: 25
- Views: 20029
Do a google on your drive.
I found this... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=198120
which sounds very similar to your problem.
One test from the thread is to try a commercial DVD. Your DVD Drive may be sensitive to burned versus commercial DVDs.
Good luck.
I found this... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=198120
which sounds very similar to your problem.
One test from the thread is to try a commercial DVD. Your DVD Drive may be sensitive to burned versus commercial DVDs.
Good luck.
- Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:46 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: I want to see the hidden RR files in C:
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4004
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:57 pm
- Forum: Windows OS (Versions prior to Windows 7)
- Topic: XP SP3 Ready
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1382
XP SP3 Ready
I just got my Microsoft email update on available downloads. XP SP3 RC2 is now available to the public:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
Alacrity
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
Alacrity
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:31 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T61p graphics problems
- Replies: 493
- Views: 168886
icantux, Good decision. Lenovo is well aware of the issue and now will readily replace the mobo for those PCs affected. I think only 2007 PCs were affected and hopefully Lenovo has tightened up their mobo manufacturing techniques. There are pretty good techniques (primarily proposed and developed by...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:47 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: W2k or W2k3 on a T61
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8774
You are aware that Win2k SP4/RC1 actually has a larger footprint in memory than WinXP SP2/3 and that the security in XP is far better, yes? The WiFi support is also far improved. I put off upgrading to XP until SP2 came out, but after that, there was no reason to stick with 2k. I've also had more b...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:48 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T61p graphics problems
- Replies: 493
- Views: 168886
icantux, I think the thread had the cause pretty well nailed down to poor manufacturing of the motherboard that showed up under high temp thru intensive 3D gaming. Typically, a cold solder joint or poor solder joint would react as described in the thread. I read the thread every once in a while with...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:37 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: W2k or W2k3 on a T61
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8774
Zaph, Hard to answer your question without knowing what you are having difficulty with.....and what your PC goals are. Was your problem speed, BSODs, or.... But, it is easy enough to experiment with different o/s systems. In fact, I am using XP Pro but installed Ubuntu Linux on my T61p last week and...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:32 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T61p graphics problems
- Replies: 493
- Views: 168886
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:58 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Access Connections and Wireless Connectivity is Screwed Up!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6273
fred has a solid recommendation....roll back to alternate settings....or re image hard drive. other forum threads also recommend against using Lenovo updates unless there is a specific problem or need your have....if it ain't broke, don't fix it. access connections is a sensitive bugger sometimes. u...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:20 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: How to reenable the F11 function (Product Recovery Program)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 58221
Should be useful..thanks. But, can you expand on what you mean by: "Note: Install the Rescue and Recovery software, before restoring the partition." I assume it means that you have already had the hidden partition and have all the TP software on the PC but have only lost.... for some reason ... the ...
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:36 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Restart-->Thinkvantage ---> Option F11(RNR) Disappear
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2175
waikking, yes, somewhere along the line, you changed the boot sector. Did you add another software program like Acronis or Ghost? Or did you add a dual boot with another o/s? One thing you might do is to take a hard drive image of your present C drive. Then, use the prior posters recommendations or....
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Anyone Having Trouble with Rescue and Recovery 4 with WinXP?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4621
eecon, Glad it worked out for you. With Acronis, you can place a hidden recovery partition on your hard drive which can be triggered at boot with F11 to re-image the hard drive with a recent XP hard drive image. But, you can not have both the original RnR of the Thinkpad and the Acronis. You have to...
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:13 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Received Intel 4965AGN instead of Atheros a/b/g/n...:(
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2762
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:10 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Anyone Having Trouble with Rescue and Recovery 4 with WinXP?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4621
Thought I should at leasts try RR4....so I could compare with Acronis. Took 38 minutes to make a hard drive image. Also the process stopped and I had to shut down Norton 360 which I don't have to do with Acronis. Then, after it finished, I restarted and pressed the Thinkvantage button and found out ...
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:42 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Anyone Having Trouble with Rescue and Recovery 4 with WinXP?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4621
Other advantages of Acronis: ...hard drive or MBR is messed up....image is separate. ...you can do Acronis on your hard drive if you wish and F11 recovers the recent image ...you can do Acronis on DVDs, etc But, the first advantage for all the putzing and fooling around with vmware or dual booting.....
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:06 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Anyone Having Trouble with Rescue and Recovery 4 with WinXP?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4621
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:28 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Which thinkpad fan control version for T60? Thanks.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8297
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:54 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Which thinkpad fan control version for T60? Thanks.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8297
Don't despair.
The definitive thread on TPFC is here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=17715
The most recent TPFC is in the last post in the signature of troubadix.
Enjoy,
Alacrity
The definitive thread on TPFC is here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=17715
The most recent TPFC is in the last post in the signature of troubadix.
Enjoy,
Alacrity
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Fan control of T61
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3293
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:39 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: T60p laptops and clogged heat sinks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5110
Nice write-up!
You already helped at least one person today with your thread:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 332#380332
Thanks again,
Alacrity
You already helped at least one person today with your thread:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 332#380332
Thanks again,
Alacrity
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:37 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T60/T61 Series
- Topic: Overheating - is my T60 defective? (Pic)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 19636