Sunday, November 15, 2009, 4:22:05 AM, Dominique wrote: >> I didn't install anything else, except Lenovo and Windows updates.
> Do you install System Update 4.0, ie. the Win7-specific one? Did you > apply everything it found? Sunday, November 15, 2009, 1:10:42 PM, Robert wrote: > Within the past few days, Lenovo posted a slew of W7 drivers (at > least for the X301). Thank you both for the suggestions. I did in fact install System Update 4 and applied what it found. Running it right now, it tells me there are 0 Critical Updates and 2 Recommended updates, one for Soundmax Audio Software and the other for ThinkVantage Active Protection System. In both cases it says there's "No previous version installed." which surprises me, and I'll go ahead and install them. When I had this freeze-up problem originally (a year ago), it happened sometimes when I was working, sometimes it would happen when it was asleep, and sometimes (among many situations) I'd leave it with TiVo Desktop running (copying files from my TiVo to my notebook) and I would come back to see the wireless light flashing madly on the X300, but no activity on the router. The TiVo thing wasn't the only situation, but it was weird the WiFi light was flashing so much on the notebook. Lenovo/IBM told me they wouldn't service it unless either the Hardware Diagnostics program reported a problem, or if the problem occurred with only the factory install loaded. After going back to my T41p and wiping the X300 clean, I installed from the Recovery Disks and left the machine running for days. There was no problem, though of course I wasn't doing anything. I had read a year ago that some people were suspicious of the side USB ports, so I hooked up a bus-powered HD and even then it didn't lock up. Yesterday when it locked up (and it did it again after I posted), I did have a USB-powered HD connected, though the lockup only happened when I tried to wake the X300 up after leaving it for a while. Not sure there's a connection. And not sure what to do, since I realize that if I can't reproduce the problem with only the factory install, chances are they won't be able to either. :( Thanks for the advice. -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
