keyboard doesnt work after t60p wakes up

[liquidous]

if i close the lid and let the computer sleep, or it goes to sleep by itself (set to 3 minutes) sometimes when i use the fingerprint to log back in, i can not get the keyboard to respond for any program. the mouse works, but i either have to log all the way out and log back in again, or restart. this happens intermittently.

anyone else having this problem.

[Steerpike]

We're experiencing a variation on this, may be the same root cause.

I have my T60 set to blank out the screen after 10 mins when on wall power (never go to standby/hibernate). Sometimes, but not always, the screen won't come back when I touch the Synaptics glide mouse, or the keyboard. Close/open lid sometimes cures it (i've set my laptop to 'do nothing' on lid close, but it does blank the screen regardless), but sometimes I've had to force a shutdown (press/hold power switch). Once I cured it by using Fn+F7 (cycle through local/external displays).

My colleague here also has a T60, and she too set her screen to go blank after a short time, and she too cannot get it to recover from this. She's resorted to no longer blank out the screen on inactivity, as she had to keep rebooting to recover.

[RonS]

Steerpike,

You may have this problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/917332

The hotfix is available here:
http://hf.xable.net/

liquidous,
I've never heard of your problem before. If it were me, I'd be scanning my system for buggy keyloggers/spyware that may have worked its way onto your system.

[liquidous]

no keyword loggers or spyware on the lappy.
its a fresh install, updates, and locked down with spyware 1.4 tea timer, scan shows nothing.

i seemed to have this problem when i was getting aquainted with the lappy just after xp sp2 install and update / lockdown.

so no software is suspect at this time.

[claudeo]

Did you try to just hit the Fn key?

[Steerpike]

Steerpike,

You may have this problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/917332

The hotfix is available here:
http://hf.xable.net/
...

Awesome - that seems to have done it! Wonderful

[dsalyers]

Liquidous,

Try updating the INF files for the intel chipset. You can get them here:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts ... 0&lang=eng

I had a similar problem with my wifes T60p and my Z61p. Not sure why this fixed anything, just know that the problem went away after I did this.

[Steerpike]

Steerpike,

You may have this problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/917332

The hotfix is available here:
http://hf.xable.net/
...

Awesome - that seems to have done it! Wonderful

Spoke too soon; I'm seeing more system instability now and it may be related to this patch. Have others applied it successfully?

What I've seen now - three times today - is that my laptop will simply lock up and require a hard reboot (press/hold power button for several seconds). In all cases, it's after a period of activity. First time, it just 'froze' with the display on - mouse would not move. last time, running on battery power, display blanked out as it should, and touching the mousepad woke up the display, but - I could not 'ctrl-alt-del' to get the sign on screen, and I noticed the mouse pointer would not move. Can't remember details of second occurrence.

I have my laptop set to never go to standby or hibernate on a timer basis (on power or battery). It is set to go to hibernate when battery level falls to 3%, and to 'do nothing' on lid close. (I prefer to manually put it in standby or hibernate using start/shutdown/standby or start/shutdown/hibernate). It is set to blank out the screen after about 10 minutes on wall power, 3 minutes on battery. It's also set to 'lock' (require ctrl-alt-del to logon) after about 10 minutes.

My colleage also applied the patch, and is also experiencing more lockups.

Any thoughts? Thanks!