Re: [Thinkpad] 770ED Lockup When HD Booted -- Weird

Definitely sounds like a hardware issue. Any chance it is overheating?
  If it's not a heat issue then you're on the right track with
troubleshooting... just continue to remove parts from the system until
the issue goes away. Obviously that's easier to do with optical drives,
the dock, and memory than with a hard drive. For checking the hard
drive you could download the Drive Fitness Test from Hitachi and give
the HD a good flogging to see what shakes out.

Rob

Ronald W. Heiby wrote:

> Hello Thinkpad,
>
> I've got a weird one for the group.
>
> I have a ThinkPad 770ED that is sitting on the dock (the one with
> slots and mass storage bays, not just the simple port extensions). The
> system is set up for dual boot between Windows 2000 Pro and SuSE Linux
> 10.0. Until recently, both OS would boot and operate just fine (apart
> for SuSE wanting to spend a long time enumerating my empty SCSI
> chain at boot time).
>
> Recently, I find that whether I boot into Win2K or SuSE, the boot
> completes just fine and I can use the system for a few minutes, but
> then everything completely locks up. No keypress activity seems to be
> recognized (including num lock and Ctrl-Alt-Delete). No mouse activity
> registers on the screen. Frequently, the HD access indicator on the
> dock is active when the lockup happens. (I do not know whether it has
> *always* been active on every lockup.)
>
> So, so far, we seem to have eliminated an OS problem, since the same
> problem shows up in two remarkably different OSes. (BTW, it also
> happens with the SuSE "Safe" boot.) So, it sounds like a hardware
> problem, right? I ran the memory test that I installed with SuSE 10.0
> overnight. No failures in several full passes. No lockups.
>
> Now, the really weird part.
>
> When I boot a Knoppix CD, the system runs for hours with no lockups.
> Thinking maybe it was a disk activity issue, I fired up a job to do a
> whole lot of disk reads for many minutes at a time. No lockups. I
> suppose I could set up a disk write activity job.
>
> Any ideas on what might be going on or what I can try? Thanks!
>
> Ron.

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Received on Fri Feb 24 08:28:43 2006