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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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Call Lenovo service and ask what information is needed.

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.