So I've jumped with great anticipation on the X201S bandwagon this past month, with an X201S Core i7 640M, along with a self-added Intel X-25M G2 160GB SSD running Win7 Pro.
It's a pretty sweet machine; if anything, it just outperforms anything I throw at it! However, I've been having some issues with docked power-on scenarios, where my external display just doesn't want to display anything.
I did some more digging, and I'm suspecting that this may be a firmware-related issue, since usually when the X201S feels 'happy', I get the power-on POST screen on my external display, and everything works-fine from there.
When I don't see the POST screen, I know I'm going to hit some trouble. At this point, I'm 'headless' until I flip-open the notebook's screen, but even that screen is dark, until I login with my fingerprint reader, then start using FN-F7 (switch display), FN-F7 (again), then ENTER. To switch display modes, and eventually OS will detect a device-driver crash on the display device, and then fall into display recovery mode (without AERO)
"Display driver igfx stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
Further analysis, leads to Dwm.exe which was at the latest display device driver version supported by Lenovo (v8.15.10.2025), and then I recently updated it from Intel's site, to v8.15.10.2085, and still no luck.
It's definitely not a device-driver issue; since I would normally get a POST screen that is before the OS loads. Anyone have any insights, before I open-up a case with Lenovo?
Cheers
