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Have any Lenovo owners experienced screen flickering? This is fairly recent with my V100 for about the past week or two. The backlight on my monitor has been flickering for bouts of a few seconds here and there — sometimes getting so dark the screen goes black.

I did some research to see if this is common, and I haven’t yet found any support forums with the same problem. There are accounts of screen garbage and pixel flickering due to video drivers and software problems, but none seem to be a power or connection issue. There is no distortion or color haze, just lightening and darkening of the display backlight. I haven’t cracked it open yet to check on a loose connection, but the flickering has been increasing in occurrence and intensity that I’ll probably look at it this weekend.

Grrr…

seele :: Apr.05.2007 :: General, Technology :: 10 Comments »

It’s that time of the year again. The National Cherry Blossom Festival started this past weekend. The peak bloom period was estimated to be April 3 to 5, so a few of us met in town last night for a quick bit at Teaism and then a nice walk to the Tidal Basin.

Katie tells me that viewing cherry blossoms at night is a Japanese tradition — but mostly as an excuse to get really drunk and walk around in the dark. We didn’t drink nearly enough if that is the case, but the weather was gorgeous, and so it was a nice walk outside.

Here are a few of my pictures I took last night, Katie has her pictures posted as well.

  

seele :: Apr.04.2007 :: General, Life :: 1 Comment »