Re: my thinkpad just entered the twilight zone

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 16:55:20 EDT

first thing ALWAYS is remove add in memory..
or, in the case of the current T&A series, swap memory around and try try
again..
alway "reseat and remove..

then move on to more serious faults..

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hultquist" <ssh_at_accumedia.com>
To: <steven_at_samsara.csustan.edu>; <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: RE: my thinkpad just entered the twilight zone

> Anything in your logs?
>
> I would recommend running PC Dr, which you can get from the IBM support
> site. It will run checks on your entire system (and is the first step
> that support will ask you to do).
>
> ssh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: steven_at_tp240.athome.net [mailto:steven_at_tp240.athome.net] On Behalf
> Of steven_at_samsara.csustan.edu
> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 8:00 AM
> To: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: my thinkpad just entered the twilight zone
>
>
> Morning all
>
> I'm having a very strange morning. Until this am my A20P running Red
> Hat linux 7.2 has been solid - it just runs. This morning, for no
> apparent
> reason, the keyboard suddenly stopped working. None of the keys I
> pressed
> were acknowledged. I shut the system down via extended pressing of the
> power button, and then could not get it to restart until I had removed
> the
> battery briefly.
>
> I finally got it to restart, and it ran for about 20 minutes then just
> power cycled [without my assistance], and refused to start again. After
> removing the batter once again I got it to restart. Turned on the power
> on diagnostics, everything reports fine.
>
> Oops - darn thing just rebooted itself again, and the first attempt to
> reboot halted at RAM check. After removing the battery briefly again,
> it
> restarts and things report okay again.
>
> I'm a bit perplexed by all this - anyone have suggestions about what
> might
> be happening? Is this the sort of behaviour that RAM failure can cause?
>
> TIA
> S.
> ----------------------------------
> Sent by Thinkpad.........
> Steven Filling
> E-Mail: steven_at_samsara.csustan.edu
> Date: 06-Jul-2002
> Time: 06:32:44
> ----------------------------------
>
>

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