Failure of T61p NVidia 570 m

Hi all

I turned on my T61p as usual last night and the status lights came on as usual but nothing showed on the screen. I then disconnected the battery, he left, reconnected it, same thing. I have reset the CMOS by unplugging the CMOS battery and letting only 10 hours, same thing.

This morning, I took it to a repairman. There they took in and diagnosed it as a video card failure (nothing appears on an external monitor when it connects). The tone sequence is (long, short, short) which, according to the website Lenovo Web is a video card motherboard problem (we have already tried to take out/memory, same result).

The video card is soldered on the motherboard, so that when the 570 m fails the mobo is to replace the whole. It costs $800. I spoke with a representative of Lenovo today and I was told that because it's out of warranty since August 2008, I'll have to replace the motherboard myself. However, I spoke with NVidia today and they confirmed that the 570M used in the T61p is part of the defective batch of mobile video cards (which hit the new end 2008) and it's (Lenovo) manufacturer's responsibility to address this issue.

I hope that Tim or another admin can help with this question.

Thank you.

-CG

Congfucious,

You seem to be descibing several problems related to the United Nations.   The first question looks like some sort of hardware failure in the video subsystem - GPU or otherwise.   In later messages, you reference the system problems all in game...

The T61p issue when some systems might encounter problems where the unit hang or crash when two DIMMs have been installed, AND the system was in 3D games or other 3D graphics intensive applications has nothing to do with the nVidia issues mediated.

The issue in these cases has proved to be a problem on some of the planars tolerance and was resolved by changing the value of a discrete component of resistance on the system board.  This would be done in a controlled environment, so the field, system cards have been replaced by versions that have the update.

As a general rule, the normal warranty conditions apply to these types of repairs.

If you have been affected by these symptoms under warranty and previously inquired, trying to resolve, please send me a PM with your contact information and the system type and serial number.

I'll see what can be done to help out.

Mark

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