T61p bit the dust

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SAP_Pete · #1 Post by **SAP_Pete** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:18 pm

After one year, my T61p bit the dust.

Heaviest use I put it through is playing Warcraft, and it's been running like a champ. Often I also ran Citrix in parallel (both in windowed mode) to connect to my office and stay on top of emails.

Last week I got into Wrath of the Lich King beta (new Warcraft expansion), which ran fine by itself for hours. When I ran it together with Citrix, I got a BSOD "Page Fault in a non paged area" fairly quickly. I restarted, and everything was fine.
I use tpfancontrol, and the system was not running hotter than usual or anything. Didn't see anything in the log files, so I just chalked it off as Windows being Windows.

The next day, it happened again after a short time of WotLK + Citrix, and now the system doesn't come up at all.
One long and two short beeps, black screen. I tried all kinds of combinations with memory sticks and slots, and even picked up a new stick at the store, to no avail.
Threw the drive into a external SATA enclosure and backed up my data, and now it's off to the depot for repair.

Weird that it just happened when using those programs together.

IAmTheDood · #2 Post by **IAmTheDood** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:22 pm

generally page faults are hard drive issues ... sectors going bad.

glad you got all your data backed up .. you could've possibly tried a reformat and recover before sending it off to repair to save a few bucks.

sounds like that might be the issue.

I hope it gets fixed!

#3 Post by **carbon_unit** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:32 pm

If he was only getting post beeps he was not going to be able to restore it anyway. That is failing long before the system gets to the hard drive.

sktn77a · #4 Post by **sktn77a** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:55 pm

Have you had the motherboard replaced yet? There's a well known problem with the T61p crashing with 3D games if you have both memory slots occupied - it doesn't usually take a year to manifest but there's a very good chance that's the problem.

msb0b · #5 Post by **msb0b** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:52 am

Maybe your Nvidia GPU failed due to the recently discovered manufacturing defect. It was a pretty big news in the IT circles when it broke.

It will probably require the replacement of the system board. Hope you are still under warranty.

SAP_Pete · #6 Post by **SAP_Pete** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:31 pm

I tend to think it's the graphics card, since I've seen some suspicious behavior. When running a graphics intensive app like a game, watching a movie etc, alt-tabbing to another window would cause part of the screen to flicker occasionally. /shrug

It's at the depot now.

Status Date/time received Time zone Description
HF 09/23/2008 09:08:00 P Hold for customer information

What does that mean ? Hope they're actually working on it.

#7 Post by **Harryc** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:43 pm

Call Lenovo service and ask what information is needed.

Temetka · #8 Post by **Temetka** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:24 am

As a proud new T60 owner I can only say that I hope they repair your machine as quickly as possible so that you don't go through withdrawals.

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