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Brand new Lenovo T61p notebook (T7700, 4GB, 200GB, Vista Ultimate), both "as
delivered" from Lenovo and with a "Vista only" install of the OS, all
updates, followed by installing Office 2007 Professional, with all of it's
updates. Some minimal "extra" stuff - fingerprint reader driver, Intel Turbo
Memory driver, Intel ABGN Wifi driver. All seems well... Typing away in Word,
Outlook running... Then "not responding". Switch to Outlook. Send/Receive 66%
complete (wierd number with only 1 account configured...), then it stops
responding, too. 3-finger salute, task manager, ... well, it's icon showed up
in the system tray, but no other indication it's there. The icon shows
minimal CPU usage. The "auto-hide" task bar still does it's thing. Let it sit
for 10 minutes... No changes.
What gives? No diagnostics report any problems. I've done 3 re-installs of
the OS now and each time my sense is the machine isn't "stable" and I do it
again. But this time, I'm pretty convinced the problem is deeper, and much
more persistent.
delivered" from Lenovo and with a "Vista only" install of the OS, all
updates, followed by installing Office 2007 Professional, with all of it's
updates. Some minimal "extra" stuff - fingerprint reader driver, Intel Turbo
Memory driver, Intel ABGN Wifi driver. All seems well... Typing away in Word,
Outlook running... Then "not responding". Switch to Outlook. Send/Receive 66%
complete (wierd number with only 1 account configured...), then it stops
responding, too. 3-finger salute, task manager, ... well, it's icon showed up
in the system tray, but no other indication it's there. The icon shows
minimal CPU usage. The "auto-hide" task bar still does it's thing. Let it sit
for 10 minutes... No changes.
What gives? No diagnostics report any problems. I've done 3 re-installs of
the OS now and each time my sense is the machine isn't "stable" and I do it
again. But this time, I'm pretty convinced the problem is deeper, and much
more persistent.