No, I didn't try anything with HDD. Its under warranty so don't want to do anything unless suport guys ask me to. Another unrelated observation is that left side of keyboard has flex. Doesn't bother me much but nothing like i read about thinkpad keyboards. And right side of palm rest feels like it n...

Thanks for the answer on TPM chip. The latest update is I tried the recovery DVDs sent by Lenovo. The restart problem happens during install as well. So it doesn't look like OS issue. I eventually gave up installing as for every restart I had to hard shutdown 2-3 times before it would start. Lenovo ...

Thanks for your reply. Actually i have discovered that even with Shutdown, it doesn't start the first time. I had done a recovery from image in HDD. That didn't help. Lenovo finally agreed that the image might be bad and sending me a vista recover disc. I will try that once I get. It is quite annoyi...

Hi, I just received my first thinkpad and a W500(T9400, 4GB Ram) with Vista Business 64. But when I select to restart from Windows, it shutsdown but doesn't restart. I have to keep pressing down the power button for a few seconds and then press it again to start booting and after displaying the bios...