System with Intel Turbo Memory and Hitachi HDD with older firmware may hang or restart - ThinkPad R60, R60e, R60i, R61, R61e, R61i, T60, T60p, T61, T61p, X60, X60s, X60 Tablet, X61, X61s, X61 Tablet, Z60m, Z60t, Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t
Symptom
iaStor.sys may cause a stop error message to appear or may cause Microsoft Windows to stop responding with an error message on a blue screen and the system may restart after the error message.
Affected configurations
Any of the following Lenovo systems running Microsoft Windows Vista with an Intel Turbo Memory and Hard Disk Drive firmware of FWSH07 or earlier and may be affected by this symptom:
ThinkPad R60, R60e, R60i
ThinkPad R61, R61e, R61i
ThinkPad T60, T60p
ThinkPad T61, T61p
ThinkPad X60, X60s, X60 Tablet
ThinkPad X61, X61s, X61 Tablet
ThinkPad Z60m, Z60t
ThinkPad Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t
Solution
Update to the latest Hard Disk Drive firmware for Windows Vista.