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Re: wireless drops

ajkula66 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:15:49 GMT

Welcome to the forum!

Could you please post the 7-character model number of your ThinkPad so we can assist you better?

ATI Catalist Control Center

peri — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:03:21 GMT

Hello every body,

I just succesfully installed windows 7 and it is running perfect so far. Nice new thinkvantage also. My only problem is that I cannot install or run the Catalyst Control Center. The driver is running fine though. Help on how to install the CCC.

Peri

Thinkpad w500/ windows 7 ultimate 64/ 4gig ram/250-5200rpm drive/

lenovo 3000 c200 not printing black text to canon mp600

tony39 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:53:50 GMT

Hi this is my first post.

I have had a Lenovo 3000 c200 8922 a26 for about 2 1/2 years that I have had no trouble with until I connected a Canon mp600 multifunction center. I cannot get the printer to print black text. When it prints test sheets it will print color graphics but no text. A text only document will give a blank sheet. The laptop will print normally on an older Canon BJC-2100SP

I also have a built up desktop unit running Ubuntu 8.04. The MP600 functions normally when connected to the desktop unit, it will also print correct copies from the scanner unit.

I was running Debian Lenny on the Lenovo but when this problem occured I installed Windows XP Pro. All the updates from Microsoft have been installed and the latest driver from Canon Aust. (mp600win111ea23.exe). I have upgraded the BIOS to 63ET62WW v1.08.

Attempting to print from the laptop to the desktop will give the same error, also the same when printing in the reverse direction.

I feel I am missing something but have run out of ideas. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Thinkpad T40 Won't Start

ajkula66 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:51:02 GMT

Open up the machine and start cheking up the fuses, one by one...

Good luck.

Re: Windows 7 Upgrade fulfillment discussion

duckys20 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:32:11 GMT

Lenovo isnt really that great with selling products, and their support isnt great either. Took me a month of being nice, gave up, then one day of using a bit more *persuasive* language to get things moving on a missing part order.

But if you happen to get the think family of products, (and once you get through Lenovo), support through IBM is truly world class.

Re: W500: ati2dvag infinite loop

lehors — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:34:22 GMT

Ok, I'm officially sick of this.

My computer keeps crashiing, several times a day, taking down everything I have underway. This problem has been reported for over a month and a half and we have yet to see a fix. This is just plain ridiculous and unprofessional.

This should be priority 1 severity 1.

One can only conclude that Lenovo doesn't care about their customers.

Lenovo g530 dvd decoder problem

mshusain — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:28:53 GMT

Hi. I purchased a lenovo g530, installed XP and related drivers from lenovo site. All is gr8 except that the dvd is not running either in real or ms media player. Same error is comming "dvd decoder not there"

Pl help. I dont see any subhead on lenovo site for downloading this. Does this come with any other bundle.

thanks in advance. tc

Re: T400s solid state drive

mrumka — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:45:01 GMT

Second harddrive is not a cure. I found that if you use Intel X25-M or X18-M then these SSD have MLC memory type. So each cell of memory supports up to 10,000 cycles of writing. This case that hard drive will die in first three or five days for me. Even it will die for regular work of web designer or technical documents writer in a month.

I have got that information from Wikipedia "Solid State Drive" topic from Disadvantages section:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#cite_note-CWorldLackluster2-37

Then I have opened Wikipedia "Multi-level cell" topic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell

The "Multi-Level cell" has section "External links" and link to "What is NAND Flash"

http://www.micron.com/products/nand/index

reading there:

Our Enterprise NAND is a high-endurance NAND Flash solution. It’s optimized for intensive enterprise storage applications where endurance is the top priority. It far surpasses standard cycle rates, delivering 30,000 WRITE/ERASE cycles for MLC and 300,000 for SLC. And it does it with an ONFI 2.1 synchronous interface.

I think you need to include option to choose HDD 7200RPM 160Gb or greater otherwise it is too risky to lose information or laptop will stop working and information also will be lost.

I have looked at that laptop only because of Moultitouch Screen option. So if I'm not able to get perfect and powerfull laptop for my tasks like ThinkPad T61 with long time of life of harddrive and Moultitouch Screen then I will be persuaded to find other solution but I do not want to do that. I hope we can find solution cause we are all people and good relation to people/clients is guaranty for well-being of business.

Re: Resolution: Ordered Windows 7, got Vista.

tsakhan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:19:27 GMT

Def

I like Lenovo build quality i think its better then dell's. I also liked the solution as they are sending out DVDs with the image , and the extra year of warranty . The only thing that they could work on is the time it took them to arrive to a solution. But over all i will def recommend Lenovo

Re: T42 problem to renew IP address

rchristopher — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:13:26 GMT

A "fix" that has to be applied over and over every time it occurs is a temporary patch. It seemed to stay fixed through a reboot, but later it re-occurred. This apparently has been known since 2006. (Our network connection was disabled, and we had to disable the device driver.)

There does not seem to be any way to even tell Lenovo about it.

We are not plugging and unplugging a wired LAN connection since we do not use the wired LAN connection on this computer. I am concerned whether this could affect the horrible problem we are having doing an AD HOC wireless connection to a wireless printer where the computer is supposed to generate a TCP/IP address for the wireless computer.

Can't Format DVD/CD Disks

RonaldB — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:11:36 GMT

Computer crashes with Blue Screen of Death when inserting a new unformatted CD or DVD into DVD Multi drive.

Error code: BAD_POOL_HEADER

Have updated Sonic DLA (5.21 build 01C) and Sonic RecordNow (ver 7.32.1 build 08e)

T60 - 8744-5BU computer with 3G ram

Anyone have any ideas what the problem is ?

Thanks in advance

Re: Cannot boot past LENOVO splash screen - S10e

rmurray7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:59:16 GMT

Hi Spirited Guy... thanks for the interest and for anyone else who wants to help me solve a frustrating mystery...

I have tried putting the HDD back and rebooting using the hard reset.... the same thing happens. Unless I am holding down the ESC key during the power up just prior to the flash screen saying "LENOVO", the screen and keyboard freezes. If I hold the ESC key down ( and continue to hold it) as the S10E powers up and displays LENOVO, the computer rapidly beeps until I release the ESC (and may beep a few seconds longer). While it is still beeping, I release the ESC key and press the F2 button which, after the beeping stops, shifts the screen to a POST routine (it is very difficult, because of the speed of the POST to see what is happening as it shifts immediately from the POST into the CMOS. I have full access to the CMOS to make and save changes and then exit it. The computer will appear to try to reboot only to freeze again on the splash screen. If I hit the ESC key as it is rebooting, I can again start the POST and by hitting F2 reenter the CMOS. Essentially, I am making a loop. There are no password locks on either bios or anything else...it appears to be completely clear. I am not aware of any problems with the HDD either...I have hooked it up to my desktop and been able to access it using a USB enclosure. I still think it is a bios problem, but it is really frustrating keep freezing at the splash screen and only be able to move beyond that with the ESC key, F2 key sequence. I have tried the F12 key also during ESC key sequence but get nothing because of holding down the FN key to access the F12 key... I am not sure the bios are reading it since there is apparently no way to access control of turning that on or off in the CMOS (that I am aware of).

Well...that is about it in a nutshell... surely someone has encountered this anomally and cured it??? Also the bios version I have been able to determine is 14CN57WW... the model number is 41872PU.

Thanks in advance for the interest and the help! It is 10:00PM in Texas...I'll check back for responses in about an hour or so...

Re: Windows 7 Upgrade fulfillment discussion

DownTownBrowne — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:56:56 GMT

I agree with you, whats free? I want to down load my "FREE UPGRADE" and be done wirh it. (Fu#$%^) HP is is charging $4 for the upgrade, all though they probably slapped the upgrade on the purchase price on the purchase price. I would have paid the extra $$$$ for better support options. I didnt know at time lenovo was ranked last on customer support by Consumer reports dot com. I Paid alot of money for this laptop, they shouldnt be racking me for more money. Sooner or later there will be a class action against them

Re: Thinkpad T40 Won't Start

tpad4042 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:50:45 GMT

I'm pretty savy on desktops but so-so onLaptops. I'm willing to try more things and fix this laptop (great laptop). The issue with the video card.....are you referring to the "ATI" card where it is alittle loose and you can push on it to get a picture (known issue with T40)? If so, I tried this and no luck.

Let me know what else I can do...I want to save the laptop by all means. I'm just wondering if getting a replacement MoBoard is the only way to fix it?

Thanks

Joe

Re: Power surge on hub port ..... T43 with Windows XP

ajkula66 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:47:36 GMT

The machine can last for years with the aforementioned chip failing. Try getting a PCMCIA USB card and running everything from there...

That does not include shooting the messanger.

Good luck.

Re: T43p Wireless Controller

ajkula66 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:45:45 GMT

Welcome to the forum!

This is the correct driver (your T43p has an Intel, and not an IBM/Atheros card):

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/license.do?filename=mobiles/6hwc05ww.zip

After downloading it, you must go into C>Drivers>Win>Wlanint and run the setup file from there.

Hope this helps.

Re: lenovo PC brought before 26 June

utahtea — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:32:31 GMT

I purchased my ThinkPad T-500 on June 6, 2009 so I missed the date by 20 days. Anyone else hear about getting a free upgrade that close to the official date? Any deals at all for us who were so close to June 26th?

video card for TC M51

aras — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:28:59 GMT

I installed a PCIe video card into my ThinkCentre and my desktop isn't very happy now. Any suggestions for good video cards that will work well with a ThinkCentre M51? The video card I am currently using is a Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 (512 MB DDR3).

Thanks!

Re: Power surge on hub port ..... T43 with Windows XP

tortman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:12:17 GMT

thanks just great news to hear your motherboard is going.

THANKS

wireless drops

2683 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:01:43 GMT

i started having my wireless drop out intermittently a few days ago. i worked with belkin and they determined my problem is with my laptop. i can't get on the wireless at all now. help!