Written by Zealus on October 10, 2006 – 8:44 pm -
Just called Lenovo for the status of my old laptop repair. So far they only got the replacement fan yesterday and fixed the whole unit today and shipped it today as well. In the meantime, they moved to new software so now reps look up orders in two versions of support software, giving wrong trouble-ticket numbers and messing up other stuff.
Good news - I’m putting Vista and Office 2007 Beta2 on my old laptop tomorrow.
Bad news - need to sell the old laptop ASAP.
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Written by Zealus on September 28, 2006 – 7:16 am -
Finally my brand new toy has arrived and I am spending enormous amount of time on moving stuff from two old 60GB hard drives to one new shiny 100GB drive. So far the system looks much better with 1600×1200 native screen resolution and IntelĀ® Core Duo processor T2700 (2.33GHz) plus 2GB of RAM.
By the way, speaking of RAM. Laptop refused to hibernate, giving me a “Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API” error. Being a geek myself I immediately (as time permitted, ofcourse) googled the problem. One of the first results was this post that answered my question quickly and easily. It turned out that due to large amount of RAM installed (2GB) Windows kernel was unable to allocate enough resources to hibernate. Read it and weep.
After patching system seem to hibernate normally. 3:20am, I can go to hibernate myself for four hours. Finally.
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