Al and others,
I have not yet had the chance to delve into the BIOS, however, I have noticed another issue which I hope might help Windows 7 users.
My Lenovo X201 seems to revert to certain power saving settings every time it restarts.
By going to
> Control Panel
> Device Manager
> Universal Serial Bus controllers
>
I can then see a tree with "Generic USB Hub" at the top and at the bottom "USB Root Hub"
The challenge seems to be no matter how many times I adjust the power scheme settings, repeat the Sweetwater routine etc....
In the Power Management tab of every "USB Root Hub" item,
the box "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"
is checked. This may not be the only, final piece to the puzzle, however, it seems to make a significant difference when I go through that entire tree and uncheck those boxes.
I otherwise love this laptop and Windows 7 has generally been pretty stable for me.
In our increasingly multi media world, however, I find it pretty ridiculous that I have to manually uncheck several boxes every time I dont want popping, stuttering audio?!
Oh...and one last extra credit question for the experts, please:
In the midst of all of this, I have totally lost track of DVD playback.
I sometimes "rip" my own DVDs to the hard drive, which using XP were easy to playback using Windows Media Player Classic and all the same audio settings I used for music.
Since migrating to Windows 7, however, I can now see the movie, but the only audio is a screechy, staticky, digital which somehow hasn't been decoded sound.
Thanks for all ideas and help.
