Thinkpads Forum

Hi! I am the happy owner of a one-week-old T60. I have installed a few programs and patched up the system, and just noticed two things:

1) The processor speed is not reported when I view the system properties; this happens on battery and plugged in. I believe this was displayed correctly when I received the laptop.

2) The battery life on the six-cell battery has all of a sudden gone down to just about 3:45, whereas before it was closer to 5 hours. When I first received the laptop, I was getting between six and seven hours with the 6-cell and bay battery in.

What does this mean? How do I fix it? I don't know how to even troubleshoot this issue; I've never seen anything like it before. I tried reinstalling the Thinkpad power management driver, but that didn't change anything. As a last-ditch effort I will try restoring from the hidden partition, but I don't want to lose several days worth of effort installing stuff.

Thanks a lot.

P.S. I have antivirus installed, have no malware, etc. The machine is clean-- I just have some development tools and a couple of games installed.

try install notebook hardware control, then you will able to see the CPU speed and the wattage it is drawing.

You can try Windows System Restore to revert to a time when your ThinkPad was working properly. Start > Help and Support > Pick a task > Undo changes to your computer with System Restore

I've decided to just revert back to the factory install, install my programs again, and take a backup first thing. That was my plan this time, but I just wasn't done!

For what it's worth, I have a funny feeling that Bootvis screwed things up for me. I never got it to work, and it was after installing it that I first noticed that things weren't up to snuff. I uninstalled it, but that didn't fix things. I'll let you know how things are after the reinstall, minus Bootvis.