T60 randomly turns off

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T60 randomly turns off

#1 Post by hoax32 » Sat May 11, 2013 3:07 pm

Hi ThinkPad community!
My ThinkPad T60 randomly turns itself off for no appearent reason.
It doesn't shut down - the screen just goes black and next thing you know it's off.
I just press the power button and it's back up.
I don't know what is causing this.

2007-5TU
Windows 7 Home 32bit
2GB RAM
Latest Bios and Updates
Tried different HDD, Battery and clean Installation
Temps are also all good.

Appreciate any help <3
IBM ThinkPad X22
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CPU: Intel Pentium III-M Tualatin @1.13GHz
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon 8MB DDR [OC'ed] CORE: @213MHz - MEM: @200MHz
RAM: 640MB 133MHz SD RAM 3-3-3-6
HDD: 30GB ATA 5400RPM 8MB Cache
OS: XP SP3

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Re: T60 randomly turns off

#2 Post by hoax32 » Sat May 11, 2013 7:13 pm

problem solved - it was a bad heatsink - one of the screw holders was loose causing the CPU die to only be in half contact with the heatsink.
On idle temps would be normal but after only 5 minutes of 1080p I found myself in the 90s.
And TP FanControl updated temps to slow - I just found this out using Core temp.

Well....problem solved :)
IBM ThinkPad X22
-----------------------------------

CPU: Intel Pentium III-M Tualatin @1.13GHz
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon 8MB DDR [OC'ed] CORE: @213MHz - MEM: @200MHz
RAM: 640MB 133MHz SD RAM 3-3-3-6
HDD: 30GB ATA 5400RPM 8MB Cache
OS: XP SP3

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Re: T60 randomly turns off

#3 Post by TuuS » Sun May 12, 2013 5:37 pm

That would have been the first place I looked, but you said temps were good so it seemed like you might have a thermal defect somewhere else, however your description did sound like typical thermal shutdown.

Glad it's resolved.

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