T61/p generation was shipped with defective nVidia GPU chips. This issue had also affected Apple, HP and Dell.
Lenovo knows about this and many a times will replace the board even when the machine is out of warranty. Give them a call, you've got nothing to lose. Good luck. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Randy <[email protected]> To: tataslon <[email protected]>; chris <[email protected]>; thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 11:43 am Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery" And just like that, the GPU started failing its tests… either the faulty socket is causing this or it’s there’s more than just a socket problem… I do believe she’s dead. L From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 10:25 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery" It does sound like a bad slot... That being said, you have the ability of throwing a 4GB DIMM into the the healthy slot, which should be enough for most purposes. Good luck. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Randy <[email protected]> To: tataslon <[email protected]>; chris <[email protected]>; thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 1:19 am Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery" Thanks much! FWIW, I ran the results and it booted to the Diagnostics fine and I opened up the box to take a look to see if the fan was running (and it was). However, when running the diagnostics, I reliably get an error on Socket 1. I changed the memory sticks into alternate sockets but I get the same error. Anyone else agree that it sounds like RAM Socket 1 is hosed and only repairable via a system board replacement? Or is there a slim hope that new RAM sticks may fix this issue, even though swapping them around didn’t move the failure to Socket 2. Thanks much to everyone for the help! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 3:11 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery" Here you go: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-56222 Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Randy <[email protected]> To: 'Chris Schumann' <[email protected]>; thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 5:06 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery" Is there an ISO somewhere I can grab for it? I think Lenovo once offered this but it's been a very long time since I've had to do any maintenance on this box :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Schumann Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T61p no long boots and is very, very slow on "recovery" On 08/15/2011 02:54 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Try ... PC Doctor for DOS CD and let us know what happens. Yes, this is an excellent idea. Chris _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
