Re: [Thinkpad] Odd lock-ups

Hello,

Could the processor's heat sink/fan have become loose, or could the fan not
be spinning up properly? Based on the report, the problem sounds like an
the CPU might be overheating.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 10:17 AM 9/29/2006, you wrote:

>Message: 10
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:09:22 -0500
>From: Jon Etkins <jon@snikte.net>
>Subject: [Thinkpad] Odd lock-ups
>To: Thinkpad User Group <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Message-ID: <451D3722.80505@snikte.net>
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>
>My T40, which has never before suffered any sort of problem - not even a
>bluescreen - has suddenly started acting up. The first indication of
>trouble was that it simply froze on me while I was reading a Word
>document in XP. Frozen screen, no activity lights, no response from
>anything but a 7-second hold of the power button.
>
>I rebooted it and tried again, but it froze again after a couple of
>minutes, and this time it wouldn't even respond to a long power-button
>press; I had to remove the AC adapter and battery.
>
>On the next reboot, it froze during the XP boot sequence.
>
>The time after that, it wouldn't even give me a BIOS welcome screen. I
>removed the battery and power source again, replaced them, and it
>booted. I went into the BIOS and reset all to factory defaults.
>(Shouldn't be necessary, but I figured it couldn't hurt.) After that,
>it booted, but again froze after a short while.
>
>This time it wouldn't respond to a long button-press until I removed the
>AC adapter; with it running on battery, it did power off with a 7-second
>power button press. (The two-tone beep also sounded when I removed the
>AC, even though it was frozen.)
>
>
>The odd thing is that this all started happening after I removed the
>battery to check the serial number yesterday. When I did so, I left it
>running on the (genuine IBM 72W) AC adapter - a practice which shouldn't
>have had any detrimental effect, but I can't help thinking might be
>involved, particularly considering the different behavior with the AC
>source plugged or unplugged. I certainly don't believe it's an OS or
>application thing, because it's sometimes not even getting as far as the
>BIOS splash screen.
>
>I'm thinking that my next step will be to replace the CMOS battery, but
>I'm open to any other suggestions. (Of course, it's out of warranty.)
>
>Thanks,
> Jon.

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Received on Sun Oct 1 20:19:27 2006