T61p suddently emergency halts out of the blue
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:43 pm
Hi!
Do you think this is hardware related or does this rather seem like a software issue?
I have a T61p (6457-Y6P) with a Core 2 Duo T9300 and an Nvidia Quadro 570m running on Windows 7 x64 and 4gb RAM.
(BIOS version is 2.27 and the Nvidia Quadro FX has driver version 8.17.12.7533 and BIOS version 60.84.51.0.0)
Recently, I started using the "extend"-monitor-mode again to use both my Thinkpad's display & an external TFT. (Before that I only used the "projector-only"-mode to use my external monitor and have the Thinkpad display disabled.)
While I'm working (editing documents on my primary screen and running a video stream on the secondary Thinkpad-screen) suddently the Thinkpad Active Protection system tells me it's disabled (no idea why), the system freezes, the displays go blank, the HD-led on my Thinkpad blinks a few times and then the Thinkpad powers itself off.
This whole process takes a few seconds to complete.
Holding my hand over my Thinkpad's keyboard over any place that could be / should be hot if either CPU or GPU overheats I wasn't really able to feel any hot places (it seems quite ok actually: the plastic hardly feels over the 21°C/70°F room temperature.)
I can't really reproduce this: it just seems to happen every now and then, and I'm at a loss as to why.
Could this be related to one of those damaged Nvidia-Chips? Do they need reballing or something? Is this a driver issue reporting wrong (e.g. sensor?) information to the BIOS making the Thinkpad want to emergency halt all of a sudden?
Thanks in advance for any help!
PS: If all goes wrong, I still have a TPP+NBD etc guarantee; but it'd be great if I could keep using my Thinkpad and not use that.
Do you think this is hardware related or does this rather seem like a software issue?
I have a T61p (6457-Y6P) with a Core 2 Duo T9300 and an Nvidia Quadro 570m running on Windows 7 x64 and 4gb RAM.
(BIOS version is 2.27 and the Nvidia Quadro FX has driver version 8.17.12.7533 and BIOS version 60.84.51.0.0)
Recently, I started using the "extend"-monitor-mode again to use both my Thinkpad's display & an external TFT. (Before that I only used the "projector-only"-mode to use my external monitor and have the Thinkpad display disabled.)
While I'm working (editing documents on my primary screen and running a video stream on the secondary Thinkpad-screen) suddently the Thinkpad Active Protection system tells me it's disabled (no idea why), the system freezes, the displays go blank, the HD-led on my Thinkpad blinks a few times and then the Thinkpad powers itself off.
This whole process takes a few seconds to complete.
Holding my hand over my Thinkpad's keyboard over any place that could be / should be hot if either CPU or GPU overheats I wasn't really able to feel any hot places (it seems quite ok actually: the plastic hardly feels over the 21°C/70°F room temperature.)
I can't really reproduce this: it just seems to happen every now and then, and I'm at a loss as to why.
Could this be related to one of those damaged Nvidia-Chips? Do they need reballing or something? Is this a driver issue reporting wrong (e.g. sensor?) information to the BIOS making the Thinkpad want to emergency halt all of a sudden?
Thanks in advance for any help!
PS: If all goes wrong, I still have a TPP+NBD etc guarantee; but it'd be great if I could keep using my Thinkpad and not use that.
