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I recently got my T61 and have been having pretty regular freezes. After realising that there were three anti virus programs installed/uninstalled on this guy I did a complete recovery without the norton trial and installed AVG. This seemed to help quite a bit, but I was still getting occasional freezes.

I just downloaded and installed the new Intel drivers as suggested elsewhere on this forum, but I've found conflicting posts as to which registry value to modify. Some posts say iastor and others say iastorv. The intel website has iastor(v) which isn't very descriptive either.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the great support everyone

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jcvjcvjcvjcv wrote:Both

ok, so that's a third option, haha. anyone else? I'm kind of afraid to brick this thing since it's only two weeks old...

Go to the Event Viewer and see what it reports. In most cases it is iastor.

the event viewer actually didn't have either of them.

ryengineer, I already took your advice after reading this post:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=45681

and followed intels instructions for iastor and proceeded to update the drivers. So far it's been faster and more reliable, but I still wasn't 100% sure.

When it was still freezing it never actually got to a BSOD. Programs would stop responding one by one until all I had was a frozen computer and a mouse cursor to play with and I would have to hard reset to get out of it. Because of this the only thing that would show up in the event viewer was improper shutdowns.


As a side note, I just went to the link that used to have which registry entries to change and now there's a new version of Intel Matrix Storage Manager, so maybe this will be able to help someone else:

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/i ... 025783.htm

Iceman404 wrote:

jcvjcvjcvjcv wrote:Both

ok, so that's a third option, haha. anyone else? I'm kind of afraid to brick this thing since it's only two weeks old...

I am serious!!! I did it myself too!!!