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Andrew Leith
I was doing some basic maintenance on my brother's ThinkPad T41p,
namely I ran chkdsk /f and then the system file checker. (SFC /SCANNOW)
chkdsk did find some free space marked a allocated in the MFT, and corrected
it, but that was all. SFC ran without reporting anything.
After this, certain programs started having display problems. WinDVD's screen
was black but the sound worked, Acrobat would show the borders of a PDF
document, but not the content of the document, and MS PowerPoint 2003 showed
a pink screen with dotted lines across it.
Another problem has also manifested itself, I'll let you read an excerpt from my
brother's email to me;
Normally when my laptop is asleep (suspend mode), only opening the lid will turn it back on.
Since that fateful weekend, my laptop now wakes up from suspend if I pull it off the
docking station or pull out the USB connector for my mouse.
Most annoying, since I then have to open it up, log on, and shut it down again!
We've freshened DirectX by downloading and installing directx_feb2007_redist.exe,
and installed an updated version of the video driver. Neither of which helped.
I suspect that SFC has changed a file for an incorrect version, but I can't be sure.
Does anyone know how to verify the changes made by SFC or CHKDSK?
I forgot, the machine is running Win' XP Pro with SP2 installed.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Andrew Leith.
namely I ran chkdsk /f and then the system file checker. (SFC /SCANNOW)
chkdsk did find some free space marked a allocated in the MFT, and corrected
it, but that was all. SFC ran without reporting anything.
After this, certain programs started having display problems. WinDVD's screen
was black but the sound worked, Acrobat would show the borders of a PDF
document, but not the content of the document, and MS PowerPoint 2003 showed
a pink screen with dotted lines across it.
Another problem has also manifested itself, I'll let you read an excerpt from my
brother's email to me;
Normally when my laptop is asleep (suspend mode), only opening the lid will turn it back on.
Since that fateful weekend, my laptop now wakes up from suspend if I pull it off the
docking station or pull out the USB connector for my mouse.
Most annoying, since I then have to open it up, log on, and shut it down again!
We've freshened DirectX by downloading and installing directx_feb2007_redist.exe,
and installed an updated version of the video driver. Neither of which helped.
I suspect that SFC has changed a file for an incorrect version, but I can't be sure.
Does anyone know how to verify the changes made by SFC or CHKDSK?
I forgot, the machine is running Win' XP Pro with SP2 installed.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Andrew Leith.