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Hi All --

New to the forums -- I registered to see if anyone has had experiences similar to mine.

I've had a T60 for almost two years now, and it has never worked right. I got a new motherboard and fan about two weeks after I bought it (new from Lenovo), it has never been able to hibernate (even after installing the patch from Microsoft), it's had a new Ethernet card, the wireless card stops working (for no apparent reason) on a pretty regular basis, and I get loads of error messages during startup. Now I need a new battery (Lenovo site says I can't get a free one).

Once the OS (XP SP3) is loaded and I am logged in, programs take 3-4 minutes to start. I have a 2+ GHz dual core processor and 2GB of RAM.

Basically, the laptop is all but useless. Is my experience typical?

Thanks.

Matt

I think the obvious answer is no, your experience is not typical.

Have you tried wiping out the hdd and reinstalling everything? Maybe you have a virus lurking around.

rmendoza wrote:I think the obvious answer is no, your experience is not typical.

Have you tried wiping out the hdd and reinstalling everything? Maybe you have a virus lurking around.

Nope, no virus -- I'm pretty anal retentive about such things. Plus, this thing has had problems since the day I took it out of the box -- it hasn't worked correctly from day 1.

tmattevans wrote:Hi All --

New to the forums -- I registered to see if anyone has had experiences similar to mine.

Your experience is decidedly atypical. Let's consider things for a minute.

First of all, what is the nature of the "loads of error messages"?

Although it seems unlikely in a mass-produced installation setup, it appears as if something went wrong and you're flogging the proverbial dead horse. You have a machine that is essentially unusable to you. Do you have an XP product CD? Why not bite the bullet and do a full reinstall from scratch, or even a temporary parallel installation? (M$ doesn't suggest that to the same partition, but it works fine in my experience.) You should have previously loaded all the Lenovo drivers, etc. into the DRIVERS directory so that they can be methodically installed.

A self-performed clean installation is likely to prove or disprove that your T60 is fine and that the problems are Windows-related.

Art

Could the absurd amount of pre-installed IBM bloatware be part of the problem? I assume that a "clean" install using the CD that came with the laptop would still include all of the ridiculous bloatware?

Using Access connections has always been a pain for me - the app takes forever to find a connection. From time to time I turn up uninstalling the app and using windows as a connections manager. I try not to use location switching if I don´t need special ip configurations.

Recently the Eset NOD32 security/antivirus clogged my system considerably. It used at least 50% cpu. Adobe dlm seems to use a lot of cpu resources.

The fastest thinkpad so far for me has been the previous T41p with just windows and nod32, no IBM/Lenovo apps (just the drivers). Today I try to tweak my new T60p - uninstalled nod32 (trying avast! and defender), turned of automatic update downloads on every app and using manual config on access conn.