As the title says, whenever I press Fn + F1-10 causes the machine to immediately receive a shutdown command and shut off. Any thoughts here? ::EDIT:: This thread can probably be locked. I determined that pressing Fn + F1-10 was sending a power button signal to Windows and the machine was just shutti...

I did not need to format as the hard drive in question is my backup hard drive from a USB enclosure. It was already formatted with NTFS and I just chose to leave the partitions alone (even though the drive already has data on it that I put there as backup). The copying files part of the install went...

The hard drive is being recognized. Otherwise, the first half of the XP install wouldn't have worked.

I've searched for a while now and can't come up with an answer to my question so here goes nothing: I picked up an old R40 from my uncle for use as a backup machine. Well my brother started using it as his daily and crashed the old 40GB hard drive. So, lucky for him, I use a 2.5in IDE drive in a USB...

No thoughts?

This is a picture of my left hinge: http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2906/dscn0687smallgb9.jpg I've used every kind of glue I can think of except welding glue. Can anybody give me any ideas of how to fix it other than replacing the hinge. I don't really have a problem replacing the hinge, but have...

Well, I'm in contact with a Customer Service Rep at Lenovo and I'll be sending my machine to Raleigh within the next few days. Hopefully this time it'll come back fixed 100% correctly.

I'm still trying to work on what they should do for me for being so inconvenienced.

I did replace the keyboard - no fly - that's why I sent it in the second time. I think it needed a planar card (replaced on the third time).

I always talk up how durable the IBM Thinkpad is but Lenovo's failing me! I just got my laptop back from ezserv for the third time and they broke something again! The first time it was because the CPU Fan died and the wireless switch was broken and they fixed that. The second time it was because the...

Their warranty service is good - when they fix your computer. I'll be sending mine back Monday or Tuesday to have them try to fix a keyboard problem I've been having. I just got it back today and the problem still exists (after I sent it back Wednesday).

Verizon DSL here. It's extremely reliable for being out in the boon docks. It's also cheaper than cable at $30 a month.

I reseated the connector to the keyboard and reinstalled the drivers - still no change.

I didn't drop it or anything of that nature. It worked when I got it back from the depot, but now it doesn't.

My keyboard's bottom row of letters does not work at all I am not able to use the letters from left shift to b and I am only able to use m if I press really really hard on the keyboard Also no periods or commas. (using on screen keyboard) I also have to press the enter button really really hard for ...

I sent my laptop to the depot to be fixed and I had it back in less than 2 days. Talk about fast work. DHL overnighted it both ways.

It is a software problem. That's why they won't cover it on your warranty.

Is SVCHost the leading cause of the CPU Usage?

gotconsultants wrote:Why don't you buy the IBM / Lenovo one??

Rob

Extremely expensive?

My system fan has started to really grind when it fires up. If I bang the laptop down (bad I know), it goes away. I really don't want to send it in for warranty work because my Thinkpad is my main system at this point (my desktop is fried). Is there anything I can do about it short of sending it in ...

I'll put in another vote for Linksys. Seeing as they're owned by Cisco Systems now anyways, it's just a badge change.

Go buy another computer. OC'ing won't do you any good. Your bottleneck is graphics.

My Z60m was made in August of 2006, but it does not have the Lenovo Logo under the LCD screen. It does however have the Lenovo Power brick and stickering on the underside.

I got similar messages on my Z60m. I've ignored all of them.

The dumped WinFS to get Vista out now. That's the biggest mistake they made. Had they kept WinFS, Vista could have been more polished and given developers more time to catch up with the process. Vista came out too early for a market just now getting used to XP.

sugo wrote:The no noise part is a god sent.

But I just love the sound of the arm swinging across the discs rearranging the magnetic bits!

carbon_unit wrote:There is no cable on a thinkpad. The hard drive connector pins go into a connector on the motherboard.

Well, this is a desktop and all.

That's an interesting conclusion. That cable is brand new, but inspection could be warranted.

Sounds like a failing drive. You better get you important info backed up right now. The only problem is that it only shuts off when trying to load into windows. I'm running a windows reinstall and it hasn't shut off yet (albeit, the computer has restarted like 10 million times). I smell a format co...

Running chkdsk with the /f parameter seems to have fixed the problem.

I put the HD back in the desktop and the PC boots right up..but the HD's shut off after 5 minutes

That won't convert the filesystem back to NTFS though - it'll just recover the data - not really what I'm looking for. Or, I haven't figured it out yet.

Get a Z60m with the MaxBrite Screen. 300nits baby.

One of the partitions on my desktop's harddrive went to RAW after a power outage. I do believe the boot sectors are messed up. I have yet to find something FREE that can fix this. Any ideas?