It does sound nVidious. I'm thinking extending warranties is a good idea all around (they seem pretty cheap from Lenovo, though so do the machines now).
-- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Saturday, December 10, 2011, 12:07:52 AM, you wrote: > If your machine has a build date prior to July of 2008 (and it > seems so, given the warranty that you've described) the nVidia chip is pretty > much a time-bomb. > Not all of them have gone bad. But quite a few have, due to a > manufacturing defect within the chip itself. > Send the machine in. You'll likely get it back with a new motherboard. > Good luck. > Cheers, > George > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Galender <[email protected]> > To: 'ThinkPad Mailing List' <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 11:43 pm > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Extremely Annoying Screen Artifacts > George and Steve, thanks for this info. > I've had this machine for over 4 years (and Lenovo just last month renewed > my warranty for a 5th--and they say final--year) and this has only started > recently. Is it possible that the faulty chip is only starting to "go bad" > after all this time? Might it be a sign of other issues (like the fan not > cooling sufficiently) that are causing the chip to start to fail? Maybe a > real good thing I got that extra year. :) I assume it would be a covered > replacement. > -Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of STeve Andre' > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 8:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Extremely Annoying Screen Artifacts > I get the feeling that George might be right. Nvidia, the gift that keeps > giving! > However, you should try using another video driver and see what happens. > I might rip the driver out and let Windows discover/find one. See what > happens. > That, and/or find Linux live CD that knows about the NVidia card, and see > what that does. > --STeve Andre' > On 12/09/11 20:47, [email protected] wrote: >> I believe that your GPU might be on its way out...do a little research on > faulty nvidia chips that T61/p (along with Macs, Dell, HP...) shipped with. >> >> Good luck. >> >> Cheers, >> >> George >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dan Galender<[email protected]> >> To: 'ThinkPad Mailing List'<[email protected]> >> Sent: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 12:20 am >> Subject: [Thinkpad] Extremely Annoying Screen Artifacts >> >> >> I have a T61p running Windows 7 (64-bit) and recently I started >> experiencing a very annoying thing happening. When I right-click on >> menu items in various applications (including Windows Explorer) >> certain menu selections remain on the screen (white text on a blue >> banner). This graphic sits on top of any other windows I open and the >> only thing that I have come up with to clear it is to restart the machine. >> >> >> >> Anyone else ever see this happen or know how to get rid of it? >> >> >> >> One other thing that may or may not have anything to do with this is >> that the Lenovo's Message Center periodically shows a flag and when I >> click on it, it tells me about a problem with the nVidia driver. >> However, when I click on the link to get a new driver, it tells me >> that I don't have a connection to the internet which is obviously not >> correct. This message about not being able to connect only happens on >> reports of nVidia problems and not on other problems that get flagged. >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> -Dan Galender >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
