Woops. Here I was thinking that it a bundled IBM/Lenovo package that was missing from my machine.

Thanks.

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I'm having HDD problems too.

Where can I get the DFT (Drive Fitness Test) software from??

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The problem appears to have gone away. The thing that seems to have worked was removing the UltraBay HDD, rebooting empty, reinserting the UltraBay HDD, and rebooting. Perhaps the UltraBay connector wasn't making a good contact and was messing up the writes to the onboard HDD during Hibernate/Standb...

Did you ever resolve this? I've been getting the same problems for the past 3 weeks and am trying to determine the source of the problem. I don't have Sygate Firewall, although I try uninstalling Windows Defender (which didn't make any difference). Anyone had this problem and successfully fixed it??...

It could also be "Overlay" mode kicking in...

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Well, it sure sounds like Media Player is expecting different video settings than what your display is normally set to. - color depth (8-, 16-, 24-, or 32-bit) - resolution (are you using the non-default display resolution?) - ATI's battery-saving mode which switches to less power-hungry settings (r...

Yah, I've found the same thing with my T41. It's probably because the BIOS has to provide the password to unlock the drive (which only happens at boot-up time). So either reboot each time you insert the password-protected ultrabay drive, or remove the password on just it. I removed the password on m...

Right-click on your desktop.

Properties

Settings

What's your Color Quality set to??

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I wasted a *lot* of time and energy trying to get the stock Intel 2100B card to work reliably in my T41. Kept dropping the connection. Just awful. Finally shelled out the 60 bucks for an IBM/Atheros A/B/G card and never looked back. In hindsight, I should have done it when I first got the laptop rat...

Look at your ATI Monitor settings--and specifically the PowerPlay tab.

You likely have "Allow automatic color reduction" selected.

Turn it off.

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Do you also mean within Windows (pagefile)? If so, go to: My Computer-->Properties-->Advanced-->Performance Settings-->Advanced: And check the virtual memory. I would just let Windows choose the value, unless you know what's good for the amount of RAM you have. I upped my T41's RAM from 1GB to 2GB ...

jch wrote:I'll post back how the SpinRite test goes...

SpinRite says that everything's A-OK with the drive. What a relief.

Thanks again everybody.

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Look in the BIOS for the boot device order. Maybe the USB drive is listed first, and it's hanging looking for it? Try moving things around in the order to put the most likely to be good device first. Just tried that. No luck. So I entered the BIOS and enabled Extended Boot-time Diagnostics and turn...

The problem is that the system will not attempt to boot off *anything* any more. I have an Acronis True Image bootable CD, but it won't even attempt to read it (even if I press F12). It just sits there. Doesn't even ask for my boot-time passwords (unless I use F1 to go into the BIOS menu--that's the...

I'm going to guess you may need to fix your MBR. Click on the HD clone link and read to the bottom about repairing boot sector. That was my first thought. However, it does not even attempt to read a repair floppy or CD. :( If I press F12 at startup, it will say it's Creating a Boot Device List, but...

Not sure whether this is relevant, but just installed RnR 3.10.0022.00 and did my Base backup to an external (USB) HDD. Seemed to work fine. However, when I tried to reboot from same USB HDD to verify the RnR recovery console would work, the system would not get past the initial IBM splash screen (P...

I believe Access Connections somehow corrupted the TCP/ip stack before when I was messing around trying to get fn+f5 back. That broke my wired connection as well (when I tried to repair the connection I would get an error 'TCP/IP not enabled for this connection'. I ran a tool called TCP/IP repair f...

Microsoft has a HotFix available:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909095

Does this help?

edit: I now see that you've already tried that hotfix. Doh!

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Yah, it happens occassionally to me too.

You'll notice that the Hibernate option in Task Manager will dim too (be unselectable).

Rebooting fixes it.

I'm wondering whether it's a program (like the Defrag?) that is temporarily disabling Hibernation mode....

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No worries.

Today, the IDE version arrived on my doorstep

So now I just have to wait for the UltraBay adapter to arrive from Lenovo on Monday

I'll let you folks know how it goes -- thanks for all your help!

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I just ordered the exact model you want from pcalchemy.com on Sunday and it shipped on Monday. I doubt Hitachi is discontinuing them as they haven't announced a replacement for it AFAIK. I only see the Serial-ATA versions on that site. My T41p uses EIDE I believe. Which version did you receive?? .....

Well, I've got the Ultrabay HDD adapter on its way from IBM/Lenovo... But this morning I found out that the place I'd ordered the 7K100/ATA/100GB from (NCIX.com) says that they've been told that the 7K100 has been discontinued !?! This can't be so... Does anyone know whether it is still available (p...

would be a good idea to put a slice of aluminum foil (kitchen) and place it between the top of the GPU with AS5 and touching the heatsink so that there's a little extra contact between the surfaces?? Only if you want the copper heatsink to corrode in a hurry... Dissimilar metals heated in direct co...

benottomex wrote:You mean the pink film by using the word thermal pad???

No, I mean the spongy dark brown pad that is about 2-3 mm thick (1/10")

benottomex wrote:Also, how much memory your GPU has? 128 or 64MB?

32MB

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Did I do right removing the brown goop in the GPU heatsink? I removed the dark brown thermal rubber pad from my T41p's GPU initially, but when test-fitting the fan back in place it looked like there would be no way that the copper heat sink would be able to sit snugly against the GPU--there was a 2...

Kyocera wrote:Click on the HD clone link in my sig and read through that

Wow--answered all my questions.

Thanks!
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Considering upgrading my T41p's 60GB/7200 to a 100GB/7200 (Hitachi 7K100?). What's the easiest/cheapest way to transfer the contents of my old drive to the new drive? (I have PartitionMagic DriveCopy already). In particular, what *hardware* is required? Do they make cheap ($10) USB harnesses for the...

thanks for the tips! i ran spacemonger on my machine and posted the results below. does anything look out of the ordinary to you? You've exceeded your GeoCities bandwidth allotment, so I'll have to guess what you found... what exactly is hiberfil.sys and is it supposed to be that big? It's the Hibe...

Grab a copy of SpaceMonger v1.4.0 -- it's free. http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php It will show you a map of your drive(s), and make it really easy to see which files/directories are taking up all the space. I've used it for almost 10 years and it's one of the first tools I install on a new machine...

On the T41's, it's located on the back left corner, just beside the 2 USB ports.

Not sure whether it's the same for T43's or not.

HTH,
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