x120e Owner's Thread

[cheaplikeafox]

If you're within your 1 year of warranty, you can call Lenovo support. They will ask to remotely connect to your laptop, and then they will check the battery health information in Power Manager. If it's really at 54% health (let them know you did a reset) within a year, they'll mail you a replacement.

Thanks for the info! Yeah I called them and they remotely connected for like 30 seconds. I had the battery power manager pulled up with the battery showing poor condition with 54% health. They are mailing me a replacement. It seemed like pretty good customer support. I just had to wait a long time before someone picked up the phone.

[MidnightSun]

Glad it worked out well for you!

[shan2129]

hey everyone ! X120e is a very well built, good performing device. As mentioned before in this thread, processor is a bottleneck. I am happy with this, but sometimes while typing documents the cursor freezes for a moment or two & then types all that the keys that I press in that period at once. It doesn't misses out on the key strokes, but a little hang is kinda annoying. Does anyone else has faced this issue ?

[Wintermute7]

Which SSD did you get? Is there that big of a difference in speed? I read that the lenovo only supports SATAII too, but I don't think it will make much of a difference.
Thanks

I put in a Crucial M4 128GB drive because I'd heard good things and the price was reasonable. It works fine; I did a fresh install of Win7/32 Ultimate, connected via ethernet cable to the web, and downloaded all the drivers from Lenovo. If I were doing it again, I'd put all of the drivers in a USB key BEFORE installing Windows. Then there'd be none of this "OMG! No WiFi" stuff :-)

[jaug1337]

@Wintermute7: I had the hibernation problem before, but the behavior disappeared at some point... I think it may have been fixed in a more recent BIOS update.

They did. Several of my laptops had this problem too. They disappeared last week when we updated the image of the burned BIOS and OS.

BIOS update it is

[cognus]

I have seen this sometimes. I tend to think this is more an application issue.
it can happen almost anywhere except notepad... txt. chrome, firefox, ms word, excel.... it can just show up and vanish with no notice. if you leave performance monitor open/running, you'll be hard-pressed to see any cpu bottlenecking other than the obvious [big fat high def videos, file conversions, etc].

speaking of Browswers: the new 64-bit beta-release Firefox "Nightly" is very good - the best Firefox ever and first one to rival chrome IMHO. it is my daily driver now even though its still very much W-I-P

hey everyone ! X120e is a very well built, good performing device. As mentioned before in this thread, processor is a bottleneck. I am happy with this, but sometimes while typing documents the cursor freezes for a moment or two & then types all that the keys that I press in that period at once. It doesn't misses out on the key strokes, but a little hang is kinda annoying. Does anyone else has faced this issue ?

[f8290]

Hey guys i've had this X120e for a month and i'm experimenting some temperature issues. My laptop is always around 65-67 C with minimal usage. When i start doing some tasks it goes up to 70 and therefore fans are always running.

I'm using TPFanControl with this levels (i customized them because i would like my laptop to be quiet)



Level=60 0 // Level=140 0
Level=67 0 // Level=150 1
Level=70 1
Level=75 3 // Level=165 3
Level=80 7 // Level=175 7
Level=90 64 // Level=195 64


Im also ignoring no5 and 7xd sensors (the last one because is always on 72C)

What can i do?
Are my temp sensors measures wrong ?

I really dont know what to do, i read all of you have your x120e on 50's when doing basic tasks

Should i change the thermal paste (avoiding the warranty)? or Undervolt it?

Please help me

Thanks in advance

[cognus]

f8290 - this isn't normal. what does it feel like to you near the vent, upper left corner? and feeling the bottom - that should be the only warm spot anywhere. Even when mine has really been taxed, like with a very long Flashplayer session on Hi Def it does not get "hot", only warm ... I would guess in tactile human terms its 100 deg F. Right now, the fan is inaudible [don't know if itson] and the vent area is at most 80 F.

how much ram? stock HD or ??? What is running in the background? it all matters a lot. too little ram + a bunch of clutter in the background means a thrashing disk drive: if its a 5400 rpm small-buffer drive, its worse thrashing.

[MidnightSun]

Which temperature sensor are you using?

[f8290]

First of all, thank you both for the responses

f8290 - this isn't normal. what does it feel like to you near the vent, upper left corner? and feeling the bottom - that should be the only warm spot anywhere. Even when mine has really been taxed, like with a very long Flashplayer session on Hi Def it does not get "hot", only warm ... I would guess in tactile human terms its 100 deg F. Right now, the fan is inaudible [don't know if itson] and the vent area is at most 80 F.

how much ram? stock HD or ??? What is running in the background? it all matters a lot. too little ram + a bunch of clutter in the background means a thrashing disk drive: if its a 5400 rpm small-buffer drive, its worse thrashing.

Look i was thinking about that, is really strange, i feel it very cold (i wake up from sleep, is cold here and the sensor shows 65C), i mean it doesnt feel LIKE 67C i'm warmer than that (im 36?) i think that it could be some trouble with the sensors, i dont know..

I've 6gb of ram (crucial 4gb extra) and the HD is the stock one. Im not running any specific app in the background, just "normal" windows' tasks

Which temperature sensor are you using?

I'm using all sensors, just 'bypassing" these:

IgnoreSensors=no5,x7d

Are you doing the same?

could it be a driver-related issue? I mean could the OS be taking wrong readings from the sensors?


UPDATE: Ive undervolted it and the temps (according to the sensors) dropped down just a few degrees 1-3C

UPDATE 2: Do you think i should buy one of these? http://www.ebay.com/itm/04W1380-LENO...-/160786567437 or maybe replace the thermal paste?