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Update...I have to enter the BIOS and select discrete graphics everytime I reboot.  It's kind of funny...billions of dollars were probably spent to produce the current laptops and operating systems that we use in 2009....and yet the same old driver issues from 1995 still plague us:-(

I would say yes - barely see the dim corner to the naked eye compare to old one.  However it may also proof that the place is indeed CCFL tube ending so a level of dimness is possible depends on the precision of the tube.   The light leak is magnitude worse than dim corner if you care to know.

Sorry...I am not an Electrical Engineer.....and I don't play one on TV....   By using your example, you also would not want a 230-watt system attempting to draw power from a 170-watt AC adapter.  The system would not get the power it needs and the AC adapter would probably get very hot.   In any case, the moral of the story is.....don't mix and match the wrong AC adapter with the wrong system.  

To the OP, thanks much. I had placed an order for a W700 last week with the Mini Dock 1.0 and the projected completion date was 11/23/09. I spoke with my sales rep today and explained my concern with the Mini Dock being EOL (End of Life). He checked with his contact and didn't know if that would cause an order to be cancelled but he suggested I reorder the W700 but without the Mini Dock. So I did and the new completion date is projected...

Thanks I will try that.

  Did you apply Lenovo driver packages in any specific order? Don't really understand what I missed?   My plan was to do a "clean" W7/64 install and after that run ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 for latest drivers.   In my case ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 could not start without Access Help for Windows 7 installed, that was the first dependency problem.   However, after that ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 run...

Found the solution, but no thanks to Lenovo tech support!  They wanted me to ship my computer back for warranty service thinking I had a hardware problem.  Instead, I found an updated video driver that fixes the problem. Even though this driver was released on Oct 13, tech support had no idea about it as of Nov 12 and the "Drivers & Software" page for the T500/W500 still lists the old driver from April.  I can't...

My W500 (4062-4JU) works flawlessly with the bios set to switchable graphics. The W7 X64 OS does the rest ...

Running a W500 Windows 7 RTM 64bit. This machine loses battery charge after only a few hours when it's unplugged. It's properly shut down and not in hibernation or sleep. When the battery is taken out after shut down and put back in, no loss. In device manager I enabled "allow the machine to shut down this device to save battery power" whereever possible and disabled  any device to wakeup the machine. Did anyone come...

I have seen blue screen a lot of times after got my w500   it said ati2dvag blahblah and infinite loop blahblah   can anyone tell me how to fix it?   Moderator note: Type added to subject line for clarity.   Message Edited by Agotthelf on 15-04-2009 09:31 AM