after reinstalling the oem version, i ran into the same kind of hard crashes than before....i decidet to contact lenovo, hopefully after sending the machine to them problems will be fixed...thanks for the help, i will let you know what happens after they return a hopefully full functional laptop.

ok ok , lost in more crashes ....after reinstalling skype and re-installing the webcam driver this morning, while watching a movie on google video in full screen mode, there was the same hard crash i know so well by now.display "shreds" and hanging sound.while some days ago it seemed that this would...

ahh, please let me know what your next step would be.everything works fine for regular video.this night i talked on skype (video) for about 2 hrs.during that 2hrs the system crashed the hard way as before twice....skype is my connection to my gf in japan so any help to solve that would be so nice. i...

ahhh, much better.after running out of options for the graphic driver i switched my attention to the audio driver.it seems that my version was not the latest release. after extensive testing (running qt 1080p skipping back and forth, while running a divX movie and watching full screen youtube at onc...

hmmm..... i tried to download the driver again for vista ultimate 32 bit.also tried the to choose the vista 32 link.no difference. the two driver names seems to be same no idea why using different numbers.i feel little stupid i must admit, for all i know this must be the proper driver but my system ...

thanks for the link, i downloaded the driver but am not able to install.during the installation, after extracting the files there is an error message.the "driver is not valid for your system, ask vendor for appropriate driver".hmm i did some more research on the problem and could not find any sugges...

i used the "iron" version of chrome in vista (there is a version for xp ) quite happy with it after getting used to it. it is basically the chrome core with little modification.
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

yap for youtube it´s full screen, but in skype video chat it also happens in window mode.seems somehow connected to the time of the video, around 15-20 min playback of any kind
thanks for the fast reply

hi there first post here. 2 weeks agao my x301 (2774 LFG/vista 32 bit oem) arrived.i am very happy with this unit, but recently i am having trouble with sudden crashes while playing all kinds of video. no matter if it´s simple full screen playback of youtube movie , a quicktime movie or even skypevi...