Thinkpad T420 Owner's Thread

[Hearst]

Originally Posted by shazam26

Your thoughts on the think-light...

So, this is my 1st Think-pad and 1st time using the think light. While looking at the screen, I am not used to having another light shine on it. Is this something that one get used to it overtime because currently I notice it time to time and it bother me a little.

thanks for your feedback.

Well the primary function of the Thinklight is to light up the keyboard area, not the screen. The downside is that if you tilt the screen far enough it will glare you instead. It's not unusual to hear some people's Thinklight to be out of alignment causing unnecessary glare, though you can rectify that by removing the LCD Bezel and readjusting it.

Personally I use my Thinklight quite a lot and found it to be a massive improvement over my previous T61 in terms of brightness. I guess it's a matter of getting used to if this is the first time you encountered such feature.

[Shamoke]

Ok I think I narrowed down my problem with the battery suddenly losing lots of charge after resuming from standby: It's losing charge quickly during standby. Any reason why this would happen? I see you guys saying SSDs have a problem with standby, could that be a reason? I'm using an msata SSD as the OS drive.

[rufotamales]

First of all, hi to all of you on this forum! I'am new on this forum and with my t420, i just got it a few days ago, it's a refurbished and i'am having trouble getting my factory recovery discs. I'm using the ThinkVantage Rescue & Recovery tool, it has win 7 pro 64-bit edition. The problem i have is that when i use the option "Create Rescue Media" it extract files and tkae s afew minutes, then a menu pops out to select a recording media and no options are available (it's blank) , same thing happens when i use de Lenovo - Factory Recovery Disks.
I've checked the drivers for my DVD drive and they are up to date and working, i 've already saw a movie using the dvd rom. Any help would be much much apreciated!! Thanks for reading c:

[John Ratsey]

Originally Posted by rufotamales

I've checked the drivers for my DVD drive and they are up to date and working, I 've already saw a movie using the dvd rom. Any help would be much much apreciated!!

Is your burner DVD-ROM (which is read-only) or DVD-RW? either check the model number in Device Manager and then Google the specs or run Nero Infotool which will give all the details about reading and writing capabilities.

John

[kwk1]

I used 3D Mark 11 for a stress test.
I'm curious too at what else to use.

[rufotamales]

Originally Posted by John Ratsey

Is your burner DVD-ROM (which is read-only) or DVD-RW? either check the model number in Device Manager and then Google the specs or run Nero Infotool which will give all the details about reading and writing capabilities.

John

Hi JOhn!, thanks for the tip on the infotool from nero, i've used it and it seems it's a read only device D: which sucks, maybe i can borrow my sisters dvd drive, or perhaps using magicISO, but i don't really know if it will create the iso's for my recovery discs, any hellp on that? thanks again for your help C:!

[Shamoke]

Do you guys have any battery issues (like critical warning @ 50+% charge) with tpfancontrol active?

[jashim]

Hi - can anyone tell me if the T420 has 2nd generation Expresscard or is still 1.0?? I use a ViDock graphics card which runs via Expresscard and is bottlenecking on my W500 due to it being Expresscard 1.0.

[kpresler]

Originally Posted by jashim

Hi - can anyone tell me if the T420 has 2nd generation Expresscard or is still 1.0?? I use a ViDock graphics card which runs via Expresscard and is bottlenecking on my W500 due to it being Expresscard 1.0.

All Sandy Bridge laptops that have an Expresscard (such as the T420) have Expresscard 2.0 (or so I've been told).

[jashim]

Thanks kpresler!