Joe Suttle wrote:
>From time to time, my wife's T60 gets black horizontal bars on her 
>desktop, but not when any program window is open. It gets a lot of use 
>sitting on her lap. We have added a Belkin cooler board to get more air 
>circulation, but those black bars keep coming back.

>Could this be just the driver, or a scrambled desktop graphic file? or?? 
>The bars run through everything on the desktop except the taksbar(s) at 
>the bottom of the screen.

Kind of sounds like a BGA problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_grid_array

I had a repair on a T4x done by http://www.superiorreball.com/ a few years ago; 
they did it and it's been fine since, but the machine came back with the BIOS 
reset (I had hacked it to use a different wireless card) and a STRONG smell of 
cigarette smoke. At the time, Bruce Markowitz found that a service contract on 
the machine would have been $259, which might be a bargain for you if it's out 
of warranty. Superior Reball was advertising on eBay at the time, not sure 
now...

...phsiii

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