Ideas why my T61 is displaying wild characters **PIC WARNING

[1111000110]

I'm running a dual-boot Linux/WinXP machine. The other day I working I'm MS Word in XP, and the screen/mouse/keyboard freeze up. I power down, and when the screen comes back up it's blank (after the Thinkpad screen) as such:

img]http://www.llebevad.com/img/bsod/photo-1.jpg[/img]

I dock the PC and Ctrl+F7 to bring up another monitor, and I get the crazy characters in the screenshots below, and the then the screen dies. I found a work-around: my GRUB version has a "memtest" option (the blue picture below), when I run that (I guess, I can't tell what the screen says), the display works when I next power cycle.

Second time this has happened, I'm not sure what triggers it either, as it's happened using both Windows & Linux. Any body seen anything like this? Any ideas out there on what to trouble-shoot or fix this? I'm not even sure how to google this.

Here's grub:
img]http://www.llebevad.com/img/bsod/photo-4.jpg[/img]

Ubuntu starts to boot:
img]http://www.llebevad.com/img/bsod/photo-3.jpg[/img]

As far as I get w/ XP:
img]http://www.llebevad.com/img/bsod/photo-5.jpg[/img]

The "memtest":
img]http://www.llebevad.com/img/bsod/photo.jpg[/img]

Another memtest:
img]http://www.llebevad.com/img/bsod/photo-2.jpg[/img]

What the heck is going on here?

[Harryc]

I am guessing that you have an nVidia Quadro NVS 140M or Quadro FX 570M GPU and it is defective. What is the machine type/model from the sticker on the bottom of the machine?. It will be a (7) digit alphanumeric like 2007-3CU

[1111000110]

Nailed it - NVidia Qudros NVS 140M

Model/Type: 7663-B15

[Harryc]

Yeah, you need to replace the systemboard. Lenovo is replacing these boards behind the scenes. Read through the linked thread, open a repair incident with IBM, and if they won't acknowledge it or fix it, contact Mark at that forum. Good luck.

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-pri ... td-p/46469

[1111000110]

Awesome - thanks a ton for the help.

[crashnburn]

Yeah, you need to replace the systemboard. Lenovo is replacing these boards behind the scenes. Read through the linked thread, open a repair incident with IBM, and if they won't acknowledge it or fix it, contact Mark at that forum. Good luck.

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-pri ... td-p/46469

Is this an IDENTIFIED issue that they are not publicly recognizing?
Are they doing this for people with extended warranties or everyone?

[Harryc]

Yes and no. You have to read the threads over at Lenovo forums to get the scoop. Yes it is offered to anyone with or without a warranty.