Nasty Problem with Tpad 600

[Retro67]

I have noticed a nasty problem with my Tpad 600.

At times, if I havent used it for say, 15 mins or more, the video will simply dissapear. When you press a key or the mouse to try and get it back, nothing happens, in fact the hard drive light stays off.

To reboot, I have to take the battery out and THEN restart, nothing else works!!

Help!! Has anyone else had this problem?? Is the laptop toast?

ANY help would be appreciated.

thanks.

[BigWarpGuy]

I am having a similar problem. I am working to find a solution for it. Perhaps some one else has one (the solution?)?. I am hoping the problem might be hard ware or cmos related (I am looking for a hard drive for it and I have already replaced the cmos battery).

[Retro67]

Well, with my machine, the memory is all new, the cmos battery is new, the main battery is new, the bios has been upgraded, etc.
The only thing thats "old" is the MB and the original hard drive.

If I knew the probem was the hard drive., I'd buy a new one right now. Its only 4 gig and its old besides.

[Laptop_wizard]

Yeah I had that stupid problem. your laptop is fine, it's just a stupid glitch,
microsoft should have a patch for it, otherwise goto power options and turn off sleep and crap. I have XP on my 600E.

[Retro67]

Where is Power options located?

Thanks....

[Mantas]

Never use stan by or hibernation when video, game, or audio is playing back. I've tried it with audio and it worked, but strictly NO VIDEO AND GAMES!!!

Maybe you have timer set to hibernate?

[pkiff]

Where is Power options located?

Control Panel -> Power Management

Have you installed the IBM ThinkPad Configuration Utility and the "Battery Maximizer and Power Management Features" software? If not, then this might cause issues with your power management settings.

What OS are you using? Good advice on power management is not easy to provide without details of your operating system.

Also, when you are trying to get the laptop to revive after the screen goes blank, is the "suspend" light on the top of the machine lit (the one with the crescent moon)? And you can try pressing the blue Fn key, ESC key, and RETURN key repeatedly in various sequences when your computer appears dead and see if that brings you back.

Phil.

[DRHamp]

I have a Thinkpad 600 running Windows 2000 Prof.

I run a slide show application on it which needs to run 1+ hours. Currently, the screen goes blank at 10 minutes. Hitting any key will restore the screen and continue the slideshow for another 10 minutes.

I have used screen properties to have Screen saver = none

I have used the Thinkpad configuration utility to set the Power Management to: "Always On" with "Turn off Monitor" = Never, and "Turn off hard disks"=Never

Any ideas about anything else I can do so that the monitor doesn't blank after 10 minutes.

*Another note: The screen goes blank during the slide show where the slides are changing every 15 seconds.

[DRHamp]

Ok, not sure I understand why, but I did find a setting to stop the 10 minute screen blank.

In the Control Panel - Power Options.

Under the Advanced Settings tab:

"PCI BUS Power Management"

The options are Automatic or Disable with the recommendation to use Automatic.

Changing the setting to Disable will stop the 10 minute screen blank