T61 screen problem

[wuyun]

Thank you, ajkula66.

I also searched more information online, and it shows  the problem is from the graphic card "Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M".

I actually opened the laptop again to see where's the graphic card, and whether I can just replace this with another one.  However, the graphic card is fixed on the motherboard as I see, which makes me disappointed. 

And my machine is just out of warrenty. What should I do?

It costs me over $1000 last year to get this laptop, and it can only last for 1 year!!  I didn't upgrade the warrenty just because I believe the quality of lenovo, especially for T series, and I'm also confidence with myself.  I used one desktop and one laptop before, and both of them last for over 5 years without major problems ( I only changed one harddisk for that laptop).  And I expected this T61 can also last for at least over 3 years that's why I spent so much on it.

Now, I don't know what will lenovo do if I call them. But I do believe it is their responsibility for using that defective graphic card.  I hope they can do something with that.  As more and more people use T61, this problem will be more popular.  I didn't see any official response from lenovo to resolve this issue.  

I also wish I can see some reply from Lenovo  here.

[Mark_Lenovo Administrator]

Wuyun,

Please see my PM.  Sorry this wasn't resolved previously - will see what can be done.

Locking this thread as there are two active threads on the 1 long and 2 short beep, and the garbled display symptoms.  Let's keep the discussions grouped together.  This one pre-dates, so I'm not going to merge.

Mark