Re: 770ED Resets Itself

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 14:07:53 EST


check the memory..

"Ronald W. Heiby" wrote:

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> Hello ThinkPad Users,
>
> Lately, my 770ED has been annoying me a bit. A couple of times a week,
> I'm going along working with no apparent problems, when the system
> just decides to do a full reset -- black screen to ThinkPad logo to
> boot sequence. No "odd" behavior from Windows 95 (original pre-load).
> No funny noises. No shutdown or termination of programs in any sort of
> controlled or graceful fashion. Just *boom*. I have not been able to
> tie these instances to any particular activity on the system.
> Sometimes, I'm connected to the Internet via Ethernet, sometimes via
> modem, sometimes not at all. Sometimes I'm editing a file in Word 97.
> Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes it happens at about the same time as I
> fire up a new application. Sometimes it happens when I save a file.
> Sometimes it happens when I load a CD in the DVD drive.
>
> Naturally, my first suspect is Windows 95. But, I figured it might be
> useful to ask here whether anyone has seen this kind of behavior and
> whether it might correspond to a hardware problem.
>
> Thanks! Ron.
>
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Happy trails...

** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net


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