X120e new: hard drive slowdown issues

Hi. I bought a brand new x120e last month and I'm experiencing intermittent stutters in video (but not audio usually). It plays fine for a few minutes, then I get massive frame drops and resumes after a few seconds. This problem can be seen with SD resolution mpeg 4 encoded videos. At first I suspected that my videos were corrupted but they are in fact perfectly fine (same video will stutter at different points. Also they play just fine on other machines). I tried at least 10 different videos and the problem can be seen in every one of them.
I tried VLC, windows media player, CCCP's media player classic, and they all exhibit the same problem.
When I look at the CPU usage history, there are no unusual spikes or drops in CPU usage during stutter (constant at about 20% or so).
I had the same problem with stock drivers. I installed the latest drivers and bios update from Lenovo website but same problem (I also tried more up-to-date drivers directly from AMD, but prompty uninstalled them because they seem to break monitor brightness. Unfortunately I neglected to try the video playback).
I tried turning off all video post processing options from the Catalyst control panel, but no improvements.
I'm pretty sure it's not malware or virus related - I have MS home security essentials running and I haven't downloaded any applications other than steam, chrome, and aforementioned media players.
Flash (youtube etc) and Netflix videos do not seem affected.
I suspected that maybe my hard drive is waking up from sleep after a few minutes of inactivity, but I doubt that's it. The power management settings are set so that my hdd goes to sleep after 15 min of inactivity, but the stutters happen more often than that. (besides I don't think video playback counts as inactivity)
Anybody experience similar issues?
Thanks.
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Hello,
Have you updated all of the X120e's device drivers using the ThinkVantage System Update software?
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Hi-
Sorry, I may have been a bit obscure....
To be precise, one should boot to the OS X install disc and use Disk Utility to repair the original hard drive and permissions.
You can't repair the boot drive while started to it.
Permissions, yes, but not directory repair.
After that, restart to the usual boot drive, download and install SD!, let SD! do it's thing.
SD! will erase the target drive for the new clone, so using Disk Utility again isn't necessary.
Once SD! is done, you can open System Preferences/Startup drive, and select the new clone as Startup volume.
Restart, and check that all is as it should be (there is no reason that it shouldn't, but DO check).
Once the clone has been verified for function and content, you're all done.
A full clone of a large drive can take a while, so don't do this when you're in a rush.
Maybe start SuperDuper! and go have dinner or something......

Cannot Install OS 8.1 on new hard drive, 233 G3 Powerbook

Ok, so here's the deal.
I have an old Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. 233 Mhz 13" screen.
I recently ran into a problem where I booted up, and the hard drive (original 2GB) was erased. Completely reinstalled, and as soon as it rebooted after the install, the hard drive was empty again. Weird.
So, I decide to reinstall OS8 on a new hard drive. I have an older 20 GB drive from a compaq Armada M700, which I had replaced with a newer 120 GB drive, so I used that in the Powerbook.
Anyway, I've tried lots of things. Fully empty nonpartitioned drive, single 8GB partition by using MacDisk in windows, multiple 8GB partions, what have you. Disk Setup does not see any hard drive I place in the powerbook. I tried both the 120 and the 20 GB.
Any suggestions? I only have a Windows machine to work with, as the G3 is my only Mac. (Well, I have a graphite iMac, but it's suffering from the screen shrinking/power down problem common to those units, so I can't really do anything with it.)

ShatteredOne,
When you have installed the OS and restarted, did you get the blinking '?' alternating with a folder? If so, try resetting the PRAM to possibly correct this issue.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Will the Wallstreet boot to the MacOS 8.1 CD? If so, try Drive Setup on the 8.1 CD again after resetting the PRAM.
The original Wallstreet shipped with a special OS 8.1 CD (green label) since the retail MacOS 8.1 CD will not have the necessary Powerbook G3 enabler file.
You do not have to partition the HD, but just make sure you are have formatted as HFS Extended although HFS Standard will work. However, on a large drive like the 120GB, you will have a lot of wasted space due to the block size.
If still having problems, install the original 2GB HD > boot to the 8.1 CD > open the utilities folder on the CD > Drive Setup and select 'zero all data' when you initialize; now run the Test Disk test and see if it passes. If it fails, zero/test one more time.

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