Can see absolutely no difference.

diver,

do Memtest86 v3.4 first to check your RAM.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Drop the Turbo Memory. It doesn't fly with XP Pro and many folks say it works poorly with Vista.

Upgrade to the 9 cell battery. Cheaper when you get it with a new purchase at Lenovo. And, dramatic difference in battery time.

Nice selection.

Enjoy.

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.

MeCasa,

If my memory is correct, I have been able to see the partitions three different ways:

...Use an XP Install boot disk

...Use Acronis Disk Director boot disk

...Use a Linux Live CD boot disk that reads windows files ... like Ubuntu.

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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


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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...

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...

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...

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...

Congratulations!

You must be a happy camper.

Now enjoy your laptop.


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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...

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 ...

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....

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...

A shame that there is a "white list".


Anyway, one solution is to buy a low cost Atheros pcmcia card which is not limited by the BIOS.


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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 ...

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.....

Move to Acronis. Smooth 10 minute back-up or recovery.

The recommended one is the most recent TPFC. I actually tried a bunch of them and they all worked well.

Set your INF settings, though, from someone's recommendation in the threads.

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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,

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did you try manual first?

Nice write-up!

You already helped at least one person today with your thread:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 332#380332

Thanks again,

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Good work and resolution.

How long have you had the PC? Unusual to get a heat sink build-up in just a couple of months.

Anyway, it's nice to get a solution. I had read Chung's thread before.....so I will also be monitoring the temps and heat sink clogging in the future.

Enjoy your PC!

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