Ya know, I had an older thinkpad that had it's screen deform and the LCD liquid bust out.

I ran it often with the lid closed (turned the settings to "Do nothing" when lid is closed).

The heat from the base of the laptop got up to the screen, and screwed it up good time.

Why do you wish to wake up the laptop with the screen lid closed?

I'm not sure if anybody's tried this before, but SXGA+ screens (1400x1050) on a 15" is very comfortable.

On a 14", it's still pretty OK.

On a 12", I cannot imagine how difficult it will be like for the eyes to make out icons and words at 12pt fonts..

It faded away a couple of months later with constant rubbing.

Now my winxp sticker is just a silver mirror. Looks pretty cool. :p

Hi fifshy, the problem lies in the fact that many users don't bother running benchmark tests and CPU speed monitoring software when they get their X60. I am experiencing the same problem and have reported it to IBM Support, to no avail. Take a look here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.ph...

FireGL cards are not for games.

If you want to play Doom3, you can forget about it. The onboard GMA is not good for any of these games. Most will refuse to install if they detect an onboard graphics solution.

Did you try pressing the Auto Adjust button on your LCD panel?

Second the suggestion with ERP. I've used it more than a couple of times, and it's been able to pull off my files off from a bad drive.

But there still exists a high chance that your recovered files will be corrupted to a certain extent.

Are there any other electronic devices near the cables? It might be an "electrical noise" disturbance.

I've got a 17" hooked up and it works great.

Or it might be a faulty analog port.

Would the glossy sheet prevent you from seeing the screen clearly under bright light? Or even during daytime in sunlight?

Ah I found it! Thanks!

Is it very common of users to disable this, or am I the only one asking about this?

Hmm.. I don't believe I have that under my Device Manager. Could you post a screenshot of how it looks like?

Ok, so sometimes I type really fast and accidentally press 3 keys together, which triggers the BIOS beep tone. It's especially loud, even when the volume is set to 1 notch. It's even louder when I have an amplified speaker connected to my X60. The volume of the beep tone doesn't match that reflected...

Hmm.. I see. I already have the latest version, and after resuming using a battery (when it was hibernated with AC), the CPU speed is stuck at max speed. Toggling the different power management profiles does not bring it back down to slower speeds as what SpeedStep should do. Is this an issue? Or sh...

Just a question here: When you hibernate without a battery in place, and then resume from hibernation with a battery in place, is power manager supposed to display that black plug icon to indicate you're running on AC/battery?

Mine does, even though I've got the latest BIOS (v2.07).

From my own experience, I know of Fujitsu and Acer to not have any resources on those, except for the usual changing of battery, installing of memory modules information.

PS: I guess this is getting OT already.

Sorry about the statement made above. I should've been more specific. By "disassemble", I meant to refer to even stripping down the laptop to every last part, even parts like the LCD screen and the CPU and fan assembly. There's not a lot of vendors around who provide that kind of information, or are...

Hi tom, I don't mean to sound like a IBM die-hard fan or something.

Thanks for the heads up. That's two in my list of vendors that provide such resources (which is a good thing).

As far as I know, IBM/Lenovo is the only laptop company that offers manuals that teach you how to disassemble your Thinkpad (Hardware Maintenance Manuals). You won't go wrong if you read it carefully again and again before doing any stripping of the parts. eBay panels are mostly refurbished, with a ...

I'm referring to the PC-5300 sticks. Apologies for the wrong information up there. I did a quick search again and found that the sticks from Corsair are rated at CL5, according to various online retailers.

I could've sworn I seen them from somewhere saying they were CL4...

Got two sticks of 1GB of Corsair running on my X60.

It's been good all the while, except that the sticks are rated for CL4, and the X60 is fixed to run RAMs at CL5.

I very clearly remember that the problem didn't exist when I first got it.

It should be the newer drivers that resulted in this issue. I suppose this thread can be closed, until the next graphics driver release.

Don't worry about it too much, you will learn that the X60 is a good buy.

As for the IT Show over here in Singapore, there's nothing much worth going there for. Prices are rarely cheaper.

Welcome to the X60 club.

The trouble all seemed to begin when the L-company took over. I purchased my X60 a while ago, and a patch appeared a couple of months later on my screen. It refused to be cleaned away with a lint-free cloth and some isopropyl alcohol and distilled water in a 50-50 mixture (like they recommend in the...

But this shouldn't be the case.

I suppose we have to wait for a new version of PDCTR to come out, or a new version of drivers.

I wonder if the BIOS 2.07 might fix this.

Oh man, you are the saviour! I tried turning acceleration off and the problem was solved.

So it's a display driver issue...

gjg: Could you confirm this as well?

One thing to note is that the garbled display comes up right after 5 seconds have password. Not more, not less. 5 seconds.

Strange thing.

Tried rolling back to v1.02, didn't work.

Used a registry cleaner too.

Nobody else is having this issue?

Thanks boss. I will try that out later and post back here.

I think rolling back to an older version would be a possibility, but I can't find the link to the older versions.