x200 wireless keeps disconnecting

[JaneL Community SuperMod]

Actually, it sounds like you've already solved the problem.  Now that you've disabled the power management on the wireless card, are you still having problems with it disconnecting?  When it was happening earlier, was it just when you were running on battery power and never disconnected when you were plugged in?

[reldar]

I am not sure yet. It only happens to me once a day or so, so it will take a while before I can tell if it works.

Either way - this sounds like a very bad solution, because power management is an important feature for extending battery time. Isn't there a way to really solve it?

[JaneL Community SuperMod]

If that ends up as really the cause and solution, then, I think it's pretty much an on or off situation since there doesn't seem to be any range of settings for it.  Power management is always a trade-off of one kind or another balancing how you want to use power-sucking features vs how long you want your battery to last.

See if andyP's message here helps.

Message Edited by nonny on 09-06-2008 06:27 PM

[albert789]

hi Reldar

Thank you for the suggestion, i have try what you suggest, and i happy that for the last 8 hours the wireless connection has not disconnected yet. I think that is the solution to my vexing problem, I will continue to monitor the connection, I think this is the correct solution, thank you

[albert789]

hi, sad to say at the 10th hour the wireless connection disconnect again, i have made sure that the computer will not turn off the wireless adapter when saving power, any ideas will be appreciated, thank you

[reldar]

Sorry to hear.

Does this also happen when the laptop is connected to the power?

What kind of router are you connecting to? 

Does it happen with any application or only when specific ones are communicating?

What is your computer configuration? What wifi card do you have?

[albert789]

my laptop is only connected to power supplies with the battery attached 

at first i have a linksys router, thought it was spolit bought another ZyXEL NBG334W wireless router, now only using this  ZyXEL NBG334W

i have many application on whenever i start my computer, firefox, msn chat, yahoo chat, skype, torrent, ie, 

using vista professinal with the intel wifi 5100 card 

 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.40 GHz (3MB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB) (Montevina)

Chipset: Intel GM45/ICH9-ME

Memory: 2GB DDR2 667MHz (1x 2048MB) (can support up to 4GB of DDR3 Memory @ 800/1067MHz)

Hard Drive: 5400RPM 160GB SATA

Screen: 12.1" widescreen 1280x800 LCD, 200 nits of brightness

[delevin1]

I have been having the same problem with my new X200 (type 7454-CTO). 

Lenovo support had me remove the wireless and power management drivers and re-install them.  This seemed to help for about 2 days and then the problem returned.  One way I can determine when the problem has occured is by trying to right or left click on the Wireless Network Connection icon in the system tray.  Normally this will pull up a menu with options such as disable, status, repair, etc.  However, when this problem occurs, nothing pops up when clicking on the icon (similarly, pressing fn F5 does nothing when this problem rears its head).

Shutting down the pc results in a number of error messages including, Connections Tray was unable to shut down.

As a possibly related issue, my Ethernet jack doesn't operate properly.  Connecting a Cat-5 cable (that works fine in a second pc side-by-side with my X200) results in the computer thinking there is nothing plugged into the jack.  After troubleshooting with Lenovo's "Gold Support" team (since the standard support team is not completely familiar with the X200 series yet), they have determined it's a hardware problem and I need a new motherboard.

[Supermans]

Man oh man, I still haven't recieved my X200 yet and I'm reading all these problems you guys are having and praying mine doesn't have them too.. I should be getting it next week so hopefully it works.. I also ordered the 5300 3X3...

[Agotthelf Community Moderator]

Hello,

did anyone use Access Connections to access to the router?

Then try to uninstall it and connect with Windows XP or Vista connection center. 

May be this help and it´s a fault from AC.

Greetings

Andreas