A few days after posting the message below, I went ahead and installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my X300.
I was getting set to follow up that it's working fine, when this evening I got my first lockup. I went away for an hour and when I came back, the notebook wouldn't come out of its sleep. Actually the screen was blank and when I swiped my finger on the touchpad (or when I hit the power button, sadly I didn't pay attention), I got a white arrow cursor and then nothing. So perhaps it technically froze up as it was coming out of screen saver/standby. I have a few apps installed so I don't know whether this is the start of ongoing problems again or if it's a one-shot (though like cockroaches, I figure there's no such thing as _one_ lockup). Had to do the 7-second thing with the power button and things seem okay so far. -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Sunday, October 25, 2009, 12:56:25 PM, you wrote: > Hello, > I posted before about the lockup problems I was having with my X300. > Lenovo/IBM wouldn't service it unless I could reproduce the problem > without a ton of extra applications (which I don't consider > unreasonable). I did a bunch of backups to various places, then > reinstalled Windows Vista Ultimate from disk. I didn't install > anything else, except Lenovo and Windows updates. > Of course I haven't been able to reproduce the problem. :( Though > maybe that means it's fixed. :) > Also of course, I haven't done much with the machine (no apps), though > I've got two USB-powered HDs plugged into it, since I thought I'd read > of some problems with the side USB ports (can't find the references > now). I even copied lots and lots of files back and forth between the > external HD and the internal SSD, with no problems. > At this point I figure I might as well install Windows 7, and maybe > start using the machine for non-critical things, perhaps with MS > Office and my email (The Bat!) installed, the latter leaving > everything on the server for now. > I have a license for Windows 7 Ultimate, though it's not > Thinkpad-specific. The MS Windows 7 Update Advisor lists some issues > with some of the Vista apps, e.g. Diskeeper and much of the Lenovo > stuff. Is it safe to do a clean install of this Windows 7 Ultimate > from DVD? Or do I need to track down a ThinkPad-specific version? I > assume the Lenovo apps will be downloadable from their site but wonder > if there are any other issues. > Thanks! _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
