T61 is very unstable...
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:53 am
Just wondering if you guys have seen this problem before:
I've had my t61 since August with no problems (using it for college). Yesterday, I was just emailing in outlook, and lines started turning purple, and then winxp began to freeze every few seconds (although there was not a heavy CPU load at all), then it would unfreeze, freeze, unfreeze, etc. Meanwhile, I minimized outlook and my desktop background started looking all pixelated, then it froze with a black screen, so I just hard reset it. It worked fine for a few minutes and then started doing the same thing, so I did a hard reset, and then it was fine for several hours.
Today, I left it on all night, used it this morning. Then after taking a final exam I came back and the screen saver was all pixelated and frozen, so I did a hard reboot, it then went through the bios passwords fine, but got some randon black screens with zeros and white spots before the windows boot splash.... then when it gets to the user screen it will accept my finger print, then freeze with the screen all pixelated or out of order.
My first guess was maybe a faulty graphics card. Thankfully, I only have exams left for school, and I have everything backed up.
Has anyone else had these problems, and what was your solution?
Thanks
CT
I've had my t61 since August with no problems (using it for college). Yesterday, I was just emailing in outlook, and lines started turning purple, and then winxp began to freeze every few seconds (although there was not a heavy CPU load at all), then it would unfreeze, freeze, unfreeze, etc. Meanwhile, I minimized outlook and my desktop background started looking all pixelated, then it froze with a black screen, so I just hard reset it. It worked fine for a few minutes and then started doing the same thing, so I did a hard reset, and then it was fine for several hours.
Today, I left it on all night, used it this morning. Then after taking a final exam I came back and the screen saver was all pixelated and frozen, so I did a hard reboot, it then went through the bios passwords fine, but got some randon black screens with zeros and white spots before the windows boot splash.... then when it gets to the user screen it will accept my finger print, then freeze with the screen all pixelated or out of order.
My first guess was maybe a faulty graphics card. Thankfully, I only have exams left for school, and I have everything backed up.
Has anyone else had these problems, and what was your solution?
Thanks
CT