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LCD Flickers off
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:37 am
by CHoPSTICK89
I have a 2.5 yr old X60s and lately on battery my LCD will flicker (maybe once every 30 mins) and occasionally it will turn off entirely and only a reboot will turn it back on.
Anyone have experience with this?
Would you say LCD or battery problem?
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:30 am
by gunston
heard this is due to the latest video driver, some said roll back to the old video driver may help to eliminate the issue..
the prob is, i am still looking around the old video driver for my X60s !
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:19 pm
by tilneford
I have a 2.5 yr old X60s and lately on battery my LCD will flicker (maybe once every 30 mins) and occasionally it will turn off entirely and only a reboot will turn it back on.
I started having this problem last month. Are you sure a reboot is required? When I go into Standby mode, then wakeup, the LCD returns.
I hope the driver is the issue, cz I was thinking it was some little box going bad which feeds the lcd (my x60s is about 2 years old), like a ballast feeds flourescent lights.
2 months ago I started having problems with windows not letting the laptop enter hibernation. I forgot about it, put it into hibernation then stuffed it in my waterford sleeve. The computer woke back up and fried my hard drive. I have also thought my lcd problem may be related to my burning up something else. So again, I hope it is a driver problem.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:42 pm
by CHoPSTICK89
Yeah, standby does fix it also. I hope its a driver problem, but I also don't have the older drivers.
Sent it in to warranty. I'll let you know what happens
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:05 pm
by gunston
what is the status?
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:39 pm
by CHoPSTICK89
Got it back. The tech's told me it was a battery problem. I'm not so sure about that.
Did anyone manage to nab the old video drivers so I could test it out?
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:48 am
by plukke
Same deal here on my X60S. Had an additional problem with it. They first replaced the system board, and now they are in the process of changing the LCD....
Very happy with the service and effort IBM is putting in to their after sales. Reminds me why I bought an expensive machine over any Acer or Apple...
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:00 pm
by surg
plukke wrote:Same deal here on my X60S. Had an additional problem with it. They first replaced the system board, and now they are in the process of changing the LCD....
Very happy with the service and effort IBM is putting in to their after sales. Reminds me why I bought an expensive machine over any Acer or Apple...
Trying to fix a software problem with swapping hardware? Doesn't
sound too smart to me!
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:44 am
by plukke
It's not just the LCD flickering (also reboots when connected to external monitor) and the flickering is not a software issue, it happens in the BIOS and under Ubuntu as well....
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:01 am
by surg
Does it happen on battery only or when connected to mains too?
Mine flickers on battery only so I doubt it is a hardware issue.
Could be a faulty bios.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:00 pm
by CHoPSTICK89
I think its the video drivers. I googled some old video drivers and it hasn't happened since. I want to post it but can;t find a way to attach it.
Anybody have some more recent drivers?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:05 pm
by surg
CHoPSTICK89 wrote:I think its the video drivers. I googled some old video drivers and it hasn't happened since. I want to post it but can;t find a way to attach it.
Anybody have some more recent drivers?
Glad to hear that! Can't you post a link?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:10 pm
by sparta.rising
@CHoPSTICK89
http://rapidshare.com/
http://www.megaupload.com/
But if you want to just try non-IBM drivers, try the Omega drivers
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:25 pm
by CHoPSTICK89
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A3TZUB8L
Brings back the 60hz option. Maybe that is the key.
@Sparta.rising
I don't see omegadrivers for intel chipsets. Care to help?