Thinkpad 240X upgrade to Windows XP

...I just acquired a Thinkpad 240x running Windows XP, SP2 in near mint condition, but the screen display is almost completely black. It powers on and off OK, with the dimly visible "Welcome" letters, and the musical notes at welcome and logging off, but no toolbars or menus are visible. After a while the screen saver "Windows" dimly reappears here and there on the screen. No keys have any effect, brightness keys, switching to external monitor key, standby key, ctl-alt-del, etc.
   Does XP install normally on the 240X with no upgrade to the screen driver, or did the person who did this installation ignore the upgrade advisor.
   Could a temporary external monitor be used to find out what software, the screen driver or whatever, could be installed now, that should have been done earlier?
   I would much prefer to preserve the XP, as slow as it may be on this machine, but if I run the recovery/restore disks for the original Windows 98 will the screen be activated normally? Would a procedure to "unstall" XP have to be done before the recovery could be done?   How could this procedure be done if no screen display is present?

Welcome to the forum!
You're looking at (at least) two different issues here:
a) The screen that hasn't aged well
b) An XP install without any IBM add-ons, such as hotkeys.
Default XP video dfriver works fine on 240 machines, and would not affect brightness in the manner that you've described. Therefore, the backlight (CCFL) in the LCD is likely on its way out - not suprisingly given the age of these machines.
You could try to access BIOS (press F1 on boot) and set the machine to boot on both external monitor and LCD, then proceed with any updates needed. You could (I believe - haven't owned a 240x in years) also set the LCD to "high" in BIOS and possibly get a little more life out of it. However, in the long run, swapiing the screen or changing the backlight are in the cards for your ThinkPad.
Good luck.
Cheers,
George
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Hello Yolanda,
a) I noticed that I can´t install MediaCenter on Win8, but just on Win8 Pro.
b) My problem is, as described, that installing "MediaCenter" on either "Win8 Pro" or "Win8.1 pro", though the "Media Center" key is accepted,
which I once 2 years ago downloaded on ANOTHER "Windows 8 Pro" computer, for free as it was a gift of Microsoft at that time - You could reserve = get up to 5 Media Center licenses per "Windows 8 Pro" computer for later use
on OTHER "Windows 8 Pro" computers - but never used ( i.e. NEVER USED FOR ACTIVATION ),
but after the first reboot, I am running "Windows 8 Pro with Media Center" WITHOUT LICENSE, as shown in the system screen.
Neither my "Windows Media Center Key" nor my "WIndows 8 Pro key" is then accepted to change the situation - I mean the keys I entered just before during the installation process of "Windows 8 Pro" and "Windows Media Center".
I am shure that I did not use the "Windos Media Center" key, as I have a list of personal keys I got for free from Microsoft, and I marked those 2, I used for other "Windows 8 Pro" computers.
So fact is, that with my brand-new computer, 32 Gigabytes of RAM, 4 Cores, "Win8 Pro" installed, I am forced to avoid the installation of "Windows Media Center", though I got valid licenses.
So your answer was not quiet helpful, as it does not change anything.
Sincerely
Rolf

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Welcome to the forum!
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Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
Windows 8.1 has enhanced basic features such as search, improved built-in apps such as the Mail and Better SkyDrive integration. On top of that, Start button is back, Performance improved, more ways to personalize your PC.
To understand more features that has been included in Windows 8.1, visit here.
I would suggest you to have a look at the Knowledgebase created by Mark_lenovo to have a better picture regarding the upgrade.
For installation details and instructions, visit here and choose the topics listed under ThinkPad.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Mithun.
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My W510 has always been 1920x1200 until I intalled Windows 8.1
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