my T20 freezes up or gives me the blue screen of death

[repke95]

Six months back I started experiencing random freezes. I have formatted the drive multiple times. I also ran tests on my hard drive and ram without any errors. I tried installing linx thinking I had a driver issue but Mephis quickly froze too. I bought new ram, which seemed to help at first. Next after reading a post on this forum I bought a replacement fan. Sadly, lockups continued so maybe the damage has already been done.

The lockups got to the point where I could not even get to the IBM startup screen. After leaving the t20 in the closet for a couple months I was able to boot up so I popped the hd into my t42 and reinstalled xp pro. It ran well for a couple days then crashed. Over the past week the crashes have become more frequent and I’m now back to a couple minutes at best before it freezes.

Computers are a hobby of mine but I have no real tech training. Am I missing something obvious? Is there any software you would recommend to help diagnose the problem?

Thanks your input, it is much appreciated.

Chris

[Orevin]

If you have a miniPCI card (NIC/modem) installed, remove it and see what happens.
Do you get any error messages/codes?

Welcome to the forum

[BillD]

Six months back I started experiencing random freezes. I have formatted the drive multiple times. I also ran tests on my hard drive and ram without any errors. I tried installing linx thinking I had a driver issue but Mephis quickly froze too. I bought new ram, which seemed to help at first. Next after reading a post on this forum I bought a replacement fan. Sadly, lockups continued so maybe the damage has already been done.

The lockups got to the point where I could not even get to the IBM startup screen. After leaving the t20 in the closet for a couple months I was able to boot up so I popped the hd into my t42 and reinstalled xp pro. It ran well for a couple days then crashed. Over the past week the crashes have become more frequent and I’m now back to a couple minutes at best before it freezes.

Computers are a hobby of mine but I have no real tech training. Am I missing something obvious? Is there any software you would recommend to help diagnose the problem?

Thanks your input, it is much appreciated.

Chris

Remove all removable hardware, the battery, modem, PCMCIA cards, CDROM, etc. And then boot..Also try 1 RAM module in each RAM slot. 1 of your RAM slots maybe bad.

Good Luck