T23 hangs on Internet.

[Bruce Guttman]

I have a Thinkpad T23, 1.13GHz PIII, 768 MB, 30 GB IBM Hard Drive. Running Windows XP Pro SP 2. D-Link Air-Plus G PC Card wireless connection. Firefox or Safari are doing this:

After about 10 minutes of browsing, the computer hangs. No Ctrl-Alt-Del, no response from Trackpoint device. Only way out is a hard shutdown (via power button).

It didn't do this until recently. I've been using this combination for about 2 years to surf the Forum. It survived my changeover from one wireless connection to another.

I have 3 other computers sharing this DSL connection and they are fine.

I removed the wireless card from the T-23 and it (the T23) ran fine for 2 days. The wireless card is working fine in this computer, an older Thinkpad 770Z (also running XP).

I can only surmise that something went south with either my D-link drivers or with Windoze, since it does the same thing on two different browsers. I really don't want to have to rebuild my system, although I do have another hard drive to do it with.

Network experts, where do I start?

[RealBlackStuff]

How much space is left on that hard disk? 30GB might be getting full!
Empty the browser caches, delete your \Documents and Settings\[userid]\Local Settings\Temp files.

[Bruce Guttman]

Thanks, RBS. I had done a file purge and defrag about a month ago. Shouldn't have been too bad. I think I had 30% free after the purge and defrag.

But a new development. The laptop now freezes almost immediately, and the fan seems to not be working. Off to find a working fan; Ebay isn't too helpful. Can you recommend some parts people?

[tfflivemb2]

You can search ebay for T23 and fan. Just watch out for the ones that say "T20, T21, T22, T23 fan" because the T20-T22 use a totally different fan.

I'll take a look after my daughter takes her nap today, I might have a few spares...

[Davemci]

I had this same problem. I'm not at home right now so I don't remember what WIFI card I have installed, but it happened when I upgraded to .NET Framework 3.51 (I think). All was well when I went to a previous restore point on XP. Then again, I got upgrade crazy and mine is running SP3.

[Bruce Guttman]

An update:

I had bought another T-23 to keep going while solving the problem and in the interim bought a new fan. The fan fixed the problem fine. Thanks for the tip on the temperature program; that seems pretty nifty. Even works on the T23 (as well as the T40, R40, and T42).

I had a bunch of "junker" parts and discovered that there were a few "unsoldered" capacitors (how did they assemble these things? The bottom of the capacitor was corroded copper; should have been solder!) and one that had simply blown apart. By judiciously swapping capacitors (after tinning the bottoms) I was able to get two more working T23s. Anybody need a nice Thinkpad for cheap?