When press sound up/down buttons, there is a volume bar including volume value showing on screen. On my system, this volume is always the half of Windows volume value (Speakers: SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio). For example, when Thinkpad volume is 2, Windows volume is 4. I can adjust Windows v...

My parents' X61 has virtually the same problem. I'm guessing you have the Intel Txxxx CPU too. The fan will only go 0 or 3000 RPM... there's no middle ground :evil: TPFanControl fixed the problem significantly when I set it to the default smart mode. Yes you are right, it is either zero or 3XXXRPM....

tpfancontrol should see the fan speed... http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/donate.html Thanks a lot! It works pretty well. The fan speed is 3000~4000rpm, slightly higher than my another X61S. So I can exclude the cause from fan control. Perhaps I need to clean up the fan & heatsink when som...

When I got this X61 (with 2.4GHz CPU) one year before, it is very quiet during idle status initially. After long time use, now it is very loud after entering Windows Vista. I can't discriminate exactly whether the noise come from HDD or fan, it sounds like the later and I guess the fan keeps running...