20 Most Recent Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Notebook - Page 7 Questions & Answers

If it i9n warranty take it back. Screen or the video card is defective.

Have you tried a different power adapter? Is the fan working? I assume it is getting through the ram check? Also try with the battery out. Is it saving bios settings?

Hi Carol,
The three keys over your mouse pad are for the little nib mouse in the keyboard they are the Right and left click as well as a scroll in the middle. If you are referring to the FN key on the system they are function keys that are shown on the keyboard as blue lettering to use them you hold down the FN key and hit the one you need.
The accent over the e is a language setting i take it your on windows XP but the steps to go to the language settings are shown from Microsoft here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/winxp/yourlanguage.mspx
you can then go in to the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box as shown and remove the ones you do not use most keyboard are English US

go to put this in web tool bar- lenovo laptop main site then order parts from there site.

Hello.

Your system file is corrupted.

You could try to repair, if you have the Windows CDs:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058 See Option 1 and Option 2

If still a problem, try System Restore: Boot your system to Safe Mode (press F8 repeatedly). Go to System Restore and choose a date when your system worked and follow the prompts.

If still a problem, try Factory Restore, which would take your system to when you purchased it initially. Boot your system and press F11 repeatedly. Follow the prompts.

Hope one of these choices work. If not, you may need to reinstall the operating system from scratch.

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This manual would be located at the following link;
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67760.html

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if its new then take it back its there responsability to make it work. if its not you will need to reload or update the driver for the touch screen you can do that in the control panel under display.

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Hi I am Vortash ..... you can turn off the camera from your device Manager by disabling it , however your camera wont activate until you give it the command to do so . If you don't wish to be seen on cam merely remove the fact that others can See you have a cam and disable it in MSN or whatever other live facility you use it's all quite easy to do and help and instructions of how to do it are available by pushing F1 .... Regards Vortash

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Plug in the external monitor to the laptop and turn on the system. Wait for 3 mins and Press Fn and F2 to switch the screen to your external monitor.

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There's a $20 part of the LCD dislay that is called an "inverter" that has failed.
Take your computer to a qualified technician, for proper disassembly & replacement of that part, reassembly, and testing.

LENOVO X60 TOUCH SCREEN IS NOT WORKING. DOESN'T RESPOND TO TOUCH AT ALL! HELP!

Take it back to the store - it should not have a username and password when bought new.

Graphic Card is corrupt so no display on the LCD screen and the display on PC monitor is fine
Change the graphics card

To reset the BIOS password read the information from this link.

In case of your Lenovo laptop the easiest method would be using software from Hiren's Boot CD as it's pretty hard to open it up and reach for the CMOS battery or the jumper.

There are number of things that can cause an error like this. Faulty memory, a bad harddrive, a failing motherboard, or a corrupt OS.
If you get this error every time you power on your PC than follow the below steps
It probably meant the installation itself was corrupt, not the disk you were using.

To test your memory try Windows Memory Diagnostic Test
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

The Windows Memory Diagnostic tests the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer for errors. The diagnostic includes a comprehensive set of memory tests. If you are experiencing problems while running Windows, you can use the diagnostic to determine whether the problems are caused by failing hardware, such as RAM or the memory system of your motherboard. Windows Memory Diagnostic is designed to be easy and fast. On most configurations, you can download the diagnostic, read the documentation, run the test and complete the first test pass in less than 30 minutes.

Or you can try memtest

To test your hard drive for corrupt/bad sectors find the manufacturer of your hard drive and run their Hard Drive Diagnostics Utility.

This will give us a foundation to work on and will (should) eliminate two possible sources of your problem.

Automatic shutdown is always cause of overheating, busted heatsink/ fan/motherboard. if the fan and heatsink wasnt replaced yet though they check it fine i would still recommend replacing it. if the problem persists a mainboard replacement would be the last part needs to be replaced.

re-install sound driver.........................

I believe the T61 is like my T60.
The "Home" and "End" keys will act to brighten or dim the screen when you hit them as you hold down the "Ctrl" key.