Convince me to get the T43...please!

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snabjab · #121 Post by **snabjab** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:25 pm

STRANGE:

the blips happened when I was downloading a file from www.yousendit.com. Why would this be? I checked task manager and the CPU was only at about 40%. I have 1GB RAM now. What explanation could there be for this? It's not as if downloading is a processor intensive operation. Something with the hard drive?

darrenf · #122 Post by **darrenf** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:34 pm

Does the audio problem happen with two different MP3 players?

-darren

snabjab · #123 Post by **snabjab** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:43 pm

yep. and it's only downloading at 200k. I don't see why it should be happening.

darrenf · #124 Post by **darrenf** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:41 pm

Could there be a second audio source? Perhaps interference coming in on the line-in jack? It's physically close to the ethernet port so perhaps it's picking up some crosstalk if you are using the ethernet port for your connection.

Open the volume mixer and choose Options->Properties and under Playback make sure all sources are checked. Then go back to the mixer and check the Mute on everything but Volume Control and Wave. Run the test again and see if the problem persists.

-darren

snabjab · #125 Post by **snabjab** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:04 am

Darren thanks for the tip. I tried what you suggested but it didn't help at all. It's very strange - it happens when downloading a large file. I don't know of any other situations it happens in - what else could I do to try to figure out where the problem is coming from? Is zipping some large files enough to test if it's a CPU issue? I would highly doubt that considering that downloading a large file isn't that processor dependent.

In other news, just called tech support and I'll have a NMB keyboard tomorrow! (anyone have the quick link to the T42 manual handy?)

Photoshopped · #126 Post by **Photoshopped** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:53 pm

Just a note on my D600:

Mobo went bad making the PC Card slots non functional
I get shocked sometimes when I press the left ctrl key!
The screen wobbles
Dell blocks iGo power adapters on the new Latitudes

darrenf · #127 Post by **darrenf** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:06 pm

I agree that downloading files should not be enough to slow down the playback of music. I don't know what to suggest. You might try killing other (non-Windows) processes to see if some other applet is being resource hungry. Does the problem improve when the laptop is on AC (or more specifically max CPU speed)?

The keyboard is a snap to install. Find the 4 screws on the bottom with a picture of a keyboard next to them and remove all four. flip the laptop back over into the working position and push/slide the whole keyboard 1/8" towards the LCD hinge (away from the palmrest). That should be enough to clear the tabs on the near edge of the keyboard and will let you pull it up at the near edge (where it meets the palmrest). Disconnect the keyboard connector by pulling on the white loop of plastic tape (you'll know when you see it) and you're done. The whole operation takes less than a minute. Install in the reverse and enjoy!

-darren

snabjab · #128 Post by **snabjab** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:03 pm

The NMB keyboard is a beautiful thing, as is IBM's ability to get it to me the next day no strings attached. Very nice.

Question - the quicklaunch icons on my taskbar are not there sometimes when I turn on my computer. Normally I'd assume this was just some quirky windows issue, but I've never had it happen before. I can just turn the Quicklaunch bar back on and my shortcuts are still there, but then the thing needs to be resized and reordered. What's happening here??

darrenf · #129 Post by **darrenf** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:29 pm

I believe these shell setting changes are saved on shutdown, so my best guess would be that your Windows session is not shutting down properly. Does the machine turn itself off at shutdown or does it crash and require a hard reset?

-darren

snabjab · #130 Post by **snabjab** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:17 pm

Thanks again, Darren. The machine has been shutting off properly so I'm not sure what's going on. It does seem that the preloaded IBM setup is pretty bloated so I'm tempted to reformat and start fresh, but I'm guessing that if I just reinstall all the IBM applications things will be just as slow the second time around. Are there certain things that should definitely be left off or included?

So I'm sitting here working where the room temperature is probably about 70 degrees and wondering why my T42 fan is constantly blowing. I have three programs open: 1) firefox 2) a random house electronic dictionary 3) MS word. If I close the dictionary and firefox my problems go away. Should this load really be causing my fan to run nonstop? This is one of the reasons I upgraded from my very old Dell and it seems that there really isn't much of an improvement in this regard, as hard as it is to believe.

STLEric · #131 Post by **STLEric** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:26 pm

Yeesh, this thing is taking awhile (of course, it was backordered).

christopher_wolf · #132 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:10 pm

Hmmmm, Fan *constantly* blowing? I thought this was the "issue" on T43s

I can say that the CPU won't be over 70 Degrees Celsius (160 Degrees Fahrenheit) most of the Time because my T43s CPU Temperature, and I run *many* applications and usually average around 95% CPU Usage at any given time, rarely, if ever, gets over 100-160 Degrees Fahrenheit. Right now, it is around 68 Degrees Celsius and I have been running it non-stop from 6:00 AM this morning. I can't say reduce the load on it because it doesn't seem like you are loading it much at all. My T43 has been pretty silent all day today (only one loud spool up for 10 minutes, then it came down to a very low level...which it has been at throughout the day), as it has been since I have had it.

Congratulations on your New Thinkpad; you will *Love* it

In other news: I got up from one of my, extremely rare, Naps to see yet another thread in the T43 vs. T42 Battle. Personal Opinion: The T42 doesn't
blow much hot air at all, why? Simple, it takes a very small portion of Users to do this function instead thus providing "Cooling" and obeying the Laws of Thermodynamics (it seems more like Entropy to me)...Same goes for the T43 "Camp"....Knock it off.

Has it *really* gotten this bad? So bad we are actually forming "Camps" and fighting about something that, as Mr.Morrow said, is not really an Issue? This is all within the T Series, so by now we are splitting technological hairs about "Fan/Heat/Noise/etc"

I can say, because the majority of my family are Engineers and have worked for IBM right up until now, that the design team is still *the same*.
No hand offs to Lenovo in the middle of a project, no quick "overhauls" of a design. As far as I know, the Z60 is the only Laptop designed under Lenovo Management thus far...please stop , this is getting old, can we not have a Nice Forum without constant flames about piddling things? I know that people want everything quiet, fast, and looking "Sexy." Come on though, there are some tradeoffs here as any Engineer would tell you, IMHO IBM/Lenovo has the least, and only the most sensible, when it comes to Thinkpads. Not only that, the majority of my friends, heck *ALL* of my Friends either own IBMs or Apples and use them as their main systems, I have yet to hear one "Serious" complaint about all the issues that have been brought up (i.e. Fan/Heat/Noise/etc) ; it isn't as though they are under light workloads either. I have seen them being loaded to the Gills with work and happily work away...that is way more than can be said for other laptops. Not to mention how Thinkpads almost always last years longer than most other laptops.

Anyway, back to bed and what little relaxation time I have left

#133 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:41 pm

If you want my opinion.
OK, so you don't want it.
Well you're getting it anyway.

This thread originated almost 2 months ago. It has been dormant for over 2 weeks.

1. Why bring up an old thread unless there is some new pertinent information to add, or a simular question to address?
2. Why bring up a shipping issue on a T42 vs T43 thread?

IMHO, generally speaking, all shipping issues (at least within a model line) should be on one thread.

Convince me to get the T43...please!

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