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Hello,

Just received my T60 2007-AY6 last week from US.
It's refurnished 1 and still carries warranty.

Today I removed prebundled hdd and fixed my existing 160 gb hdd.
both HDD's are Hitachi make and both has 5400 RPM speed.

Problem is laptop suddenly goes off.
I am talking about 160 gb hdd which I used in my early T60 1953-DAU
I formatted system drive and installed Vista Ultimate. Laptop didnt reboot at all while Vista installation.
But after installation when I tried to rate my laptop it suddenly was off. It happened 4~5 times.
Now I fixed back preinstalled 60 gb hdd and laptop is running fine.

I tried to check Event logs. No HDD related error logs.
Also tried to repair Windows. But no luck.

Any hints?
I did Google and some people saying laptop fan problem but my laptop was on whole day today and no such thing happened. I am living in India and summer season started I agreed but weird behaviour of 160 gb HDD putting me in a puzzle.

Tommorow I am going to fix back 160 gb hdd and will put my laptop in cold server room to see results. But any 1 who had such problem can give hint?
Just hint even though if you never had this problem can be useful for me.


Thank you,
Regards,
Amey.

Hurrey!
After 3~4 hours of R & D it's solved now.
What I did is changed power scheme from "maximum Performance" to "Best Battery Performance" and now laptop is running smooth.
No more auto shut down problem.

It probably shutdown from a thermal overload on one of the motherboard sensors. Likely the GPU (graphics chip) IMO. A bad fan can cause this. There can be other causes as well. You can run a temperature monitoring utility to verify this. I believe NHC (notebook hardware control) can monitor several temperature sensors on the motherboard.

http://www.pbus-167.com/

I think it's time for warranty service. You are supposed to be able to set it for performance.

Thanx to both of you.
As now now no problem as I switch to power saver option.

I shall install that monitoring tool.

In this laptop I will need Maximum Performance option as it has ATi Radeon graphics and need maximum speed for gaming.

But I want opinion from both of you >>

Laptop should not shut down in case if I switch to Maximum Performance although when temperature is 35 degree celcius outside and no Air conditioned ? I never had this problem in my earlier T60 thats why wondering but ofcourse in that laptop also I never went for Maximum Performance option.


Update: I am running that hardware monitoring tool.
Please find snapshot as follows >>
>> It showing CPU temp = 63 degree celcius

>>> This shows detailed CPU temp. I think its too much?

I am right now sitting in office which is air conditioned but not so cooled. [ just for info. ]

Shall I contact IBM servicing center to change board or CPU fan?

Regards,
Amey.

Hello,

I sent my T60 to service center and they repalced CPU fan, Plannar, LCD cable.
Now I run that hardware monitor tool and CPU temp is around 55 degree celcius.
Still not so good. I have another DELL Vostro laptop of approx same config.
In that laptop CPU temp remains at 40 degree celcius in same environment in same temperature.

Shall I opt them to replace motherboard of my laptop? I havent tried to start many CPU intensive applications yet but I think my laptop might will turn off like earlier. CPU temp increasing once I start using more and more applications. I have formatted my laptop and installed Vista Ultimate with licensed anti virus with update. No way of virus I am sure on that.
Another DELL laptop I am talking about also had Windows Vista on it.

Any suggesions pls?

They already replaced the motherboard. Planar is how they describe it.

Brad

Thanx brad for very quick reply.

Brad wrote:They already replaced the motherboard. Planar is how they describe it.

Brad

Oh is it ? I didn't know that. I only assembled several desktops thats why may be.

Hmm...So now I shall try fully using CPU intensive applications.

I am disappointed with them. While submitting laptop caps lock LID was not glowing, now glowing but now wireless LID is not glowing how ever wi-fi works. I had to travel all the way 14 km single way to do that repairy. I will go some other day to get that wi-fi LED repaired.


Just a doubt: Can this due to unbranded battery which I have fixed? It's brand new how ever and make is SANYO.

I don't see any problem with 55 deg. C. IMO, if you were around 80 deg. C you would be getting up there. Critical temp is 99 deg. C or above.

I suspect your GPU temps are what caused the shutdown. Your first screenshot doesn't show the GPU temp. As far as what THM0 and THM1 are actually referring to, I don't know. I haven't used NHC in some time. When I experienced shutdowns on my T42, it was a high GPU temp that caused the shutdown. The fan was bad in my case. It was turning, but not cooling properly. I was getting a GPU shutdown at 99 deg. C. My GPU temps were higher than my CPU temps.

I believe I was having thermal issues with my T60p (20078DU). I was experiencing occasional sudden shutdowns while running in max performance mode... After searching this forum I decided to clean the cooling area by removing the palm rest and keyoard, and using canned air, blowing out the dust. I also installed TP fan control and Notebook Harware Control... My temps have dropped significantly... at least 10C, probably more...

C&P from TP FC as I write this (max performance) TP Fan Control in 'smart mode,' default settings. Wifi and BT 'on.'

1 cpu 60°C (0x78)
2 aps 38°C (0x79)
3 crd 34°C (0x7a)
4 gpu 65°C (0x7b)
5 no5 50°C (0x7c)
7 bat 32°C (0x7e)
9 bus 39°C (0xc0)
10 pci 47°C (0xc1)
11 pwr 44°C (0xc2)

How do these numbers compare to others? Should I try to tweak anything?