New T400 Problems

[Czechnology]

I'm sad to be asking these questions here, as I've expected somehow better performance from my new machine
So, if anybody knows what to do with any of these things:

- Start-up is just too slow for a new fresh system. What could it be?
- Laptop sometimes (pretty often) doesn't shut down and stays on the "shutting down" screen. Reset required.
- Hibernating takes extremely long. I know that 3GB RAM is somehow more than the 1GB I've used to have in my old T43 but now I also have the 7.2k HDD so I wouldn't expect to be waiting *so* long.
- Problems when switching the graphics: When switching from "energy saving" to "high performance", the screens starts to blink and stays like that, reset required; when I tried it then vice-versa, nothing happens.
- Sometimes (in game) the screen freezes, after while blackens out and comes back again. Windows show then the notice that the display driver collapsed and recovered.
- Is there some utility to find out what application accesses the HDD? Just now I've started the laptop, doing nothing on it (i'm typing from a another one) and the HDD usage is crazy up. Is it the indexing...?


I would like to install fresh Vistas but I haven't got the installation DVD with my laptop. (not that it would matter because just a few days later, my whole travel bag got stolen - inclusive all the documents, xp-downgrade DVDs, docking station, cables,...)

I would appreciate any hints to these points (maybe I'll add some more later, I'm sure I've forgotten something).
Thanks!

[Marin85]

I´m sorry to hear about your troubles and I hope that you will restore your loss without much of further troubles!
Regarding system start-up and shut down times your install is new, but not really fresh... All this Lenovo preloaded software is well-known for causing troubles like these (God, my experience with Lenovo preloaded XP install was a nightmare...), so in a sense it´s normal what you experience , but not normal for a new machine in any case (my opinion). From my experience, "tweaking" the OS in a Lenovo image won´t really solve your problems. As you say yourself, you need a fresh Vista (or XP) install. And as a mathematician to a mathematician let me know if you need a Vista install DVD (only 64bit though)

Marin

[Czechnology]

Problem is, I cannot get any english Vistas from my friends here in Austria. I could buy (grmpf, why do I have to buy again something that I already have?!) a student-version of vista but I'm not sure if I would get the same system (for ex. if it's even possible to put a normal license in the OS installed from the student media)..

[Czechnology]

Just got my first BSOD: "No more irp stack locations"
What the hell does that mean? Happened just after new start of the system, trying to open total commander...

[Harryc]

Unplug your USB flash drive or USB hard drive and reboot.

[Czechnology]

The only plugged USB device is/was a standard mouse...