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Just thought I would post this in case someone else gets the same thing happen to them and they might have further input. I just sent in my T60 to be repaired (still under warranty). It had been flawless for two years and I have never took it out travelling and took good care of it. It started two weeks ago while I was surfing and the pointer suddenly froze and then the screen of blue death showed up. Said windows had to be shut down to prevent damage etc..
Rebooted and now it stated that no o.s. and no drives detected?(HDD).
I panicked and tried to reinstall the o.s. thinking it might be corrupted. Tried rescue and recovery and the dang thing did it again during that process.
Then tried reboot and it said boot unmountable? Keeps rebooting with blue screen now saying unmountable.

Okay, so I read up everywhere I can and find that maybe the HDD is not seated properly? Tried that and same thing.

I decide to take my girlfriend's HDD from her thinkpad and install it in my T60. Behold it boots up fine and Windows appears!
So I pray to hell it's just the hard drive. Just to make sure, I test with pc doctor and it tells me everything is fine (RAM,HARD DRIVE,SYSTEM BOARD ETC...).

After half a day of thinking my problem was finally solved and that I would just need a new hard drive, BANG! The pointer freezes once more and the blue screen appears again!!!!

Sent it in with a note of everything that happened. I hope they just don't change the hard drive and really take a look into this mysterious intermittent problem.

Anyone think it's the system board?

Best regards,
Mario

P.S. I miss my thinkpad!

Yes, it may very well be the system board in which case, you'll get a new one, free, with free overnight shipping each way.

Alternatively, the hard drive might be bad, but it ain't the T60/p series. I've had mine over 2 yrs, and it's going nowhere. It's going to get a friend, though. A sick W700.

caponey wrote:Anyone think it's the system board?

It could be. It could also be a defective RAM module.

Just got off the phone with Lenovo. System board it is!

The ram was checked and was okay.

Thank-you for all your input.

Mario

My pointer just froze and I had to reboot it twice. HD area feels hotter than normally is.
I'm hoping it is not as extreme as a system board

Okay since my last post, it took a week to finally get my laptop back. The first phone call told me it was the system board. On the second call, the guy told me it was not the system board , but the hard drive. According to the work sheet, they changed the hard drive did a bios update/ embedded controller?
They also did a pc doctor check up and memtest.

I had another bigger hard drive here and decided to try it out on the laptop when it came back.
Brand new Western Digital scorpio blue 160g. Guess what??? it made the T60 get a blue screen again, this time stating Kernel stack inpage error?
I'm wondering why it does not bluescreen with this smaller 80g new Hitachi one they have installed? Could it be that they have the one up on us using strictly their HDDs?

See my original problem of my first post. I heard many use other hdds in their T60's but how come I can't seem to on mine?

I'm lost as to what causes this blue screen with another brand HDD and as to what was originally the problem to cause my original hitachi hard drive to die?.

In a way, I'm kind of hoping the new hard drive they've installed will cause the blue screen to appear in order discount this HDD theory.

Delmarco wrote:My pointer just froze and I had to reboot it twice. HD area feels hotter than normally is.
I'm hoping it is not as extreme as a system board

No, looks like it may just be your hard drive.