T400 colors totally off after update

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T400 colors totally off after update

#1 Post by Czechnology » Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:49 am

Hi again!

I have a problem with my T400 screen. After some updates (and I suspect the "ThinkPad Video Features(AMD Switchable Graphics(M8x)) for Windows 7 (32/64bit)" causes the problem) through the ThinkVantage System Update, my colors are not displayed well anymore. Seems like it's maybe unable to display 32bit colors?

I tried to take a photo of it (since PrintScreen obviously cannot demonstrate the problem), this is what rgb(15,15,15) looks like now: photo.
I think it's shows the problem pretty well.

I was unable to find any settings that could fix this. Please please help!
Thanks in advance!

These are my recent updates:
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and adapter info:
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ThinkPad T450 (20BU-S02N00) [i5-5300U 2.3GHz, 16GB RAM, 14" HD+, Win7x64]
ThinkPad T400 (2764-CTO) [C2D T9400 2.53GHz, 6GB RAM, 14.1" LED WSXGA; Win7x64]
ThinkPad T43 (1871-F1G)
OnePlus X | Samsung NoteII | Dell Streak | Palm TX, Treo 600, m505, m500 | Psion 5 Series

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Re: T400 colors totally off after update

#2 Post by Czechnology » Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:33 am

To add more info, this happens only on the discrete graphics (but it did *not* used to), integrated graphics works fine.

I tried some updates from Lenovo (1, 2, 3) but none of it had any effect :(
What more could I do?

ThinkPad T450 (20BU-S02N00) [i5-5300U 2.3GHz, 16GB RAM, 14" HD+, Win7x64]
ThinkPad T400 (2764-CTO) [C2D T9400 2.53GHz, 6GB RAM, 14.1" LED WSXGA; Win7x64]
ThinkPad T43 (1871-F1G)
OnePlus X | Samsung NoteII | Dell Streak | Palm TX, Treo 600, m505, m500 | Psion 5 Series

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Re: T400 colors totally off after update

#3 Post by Czechnology » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:27 am

Another strange thing today - when I woke up, the laptop which was in sleep mode was extremetly hot! I was even unable to start it so after forced shut down and boot, TPFan showed 66 °C :shock:
Normally it's nicely cold in the morning.

What is going on??? Is this what I get for updating my system??

ThinkPad T450 (20BU-S02N00) [i5-5300U 2.3GHz, 16GB RAM, 14" HD+, Win7x64]
ThinkPad T400 (2764-CTO) [C2D T9400 2.53GHz, 6GB RAM, 14.1" LED WSXGA; Win7x64]
ThinkPad T43 (1871-F1G)
OnePlus X | Samsung NoteII | Dell Streak | Palm TX, Treo 600, m505, m500 | Psion 5 Series

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Re: T400 colors totally off after update

#4 Post by autostadt » Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:35 pm

It is probably due to the newest bios version (3.19). Try downgrading bios to the previous version, 3.18. I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it.

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Re: T400 colors totally off after update

#5 Post by Czechnology » Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:00 pm

Yeah, I did a BIOS upgrade shortly before this all started, could be it...

Or should I just wait for the next BIOS version?

ThinkPad T450 (20BU-S02N00) [i5-5300U 2.3GHz, 16GB RAM, 14" HD+, Win7x64]
ThinkPad T400 (2764-CTO) [C2D T9400 2.53GHz, 6GB RAM, 14.1" LED WSXGA; Win7x64]
ThinkPad T43 (1871-F1G)
OnePlus X | Samsung NoteII | Dell Streak | Palm TX, Treo 600, m505, m500 | Psion 5 Series

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