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automatic shutdown?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:46 am
by gongo
So my power settings are set to never shut down when plugged in. Recently my computer has been automatically shutting itself down. Anyone have any ideas as to why?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:11 pm
by sarbin
randomly shutting down? or after what seems like a consistent inactive time interval?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:19 pm
by gongo
it seems random.. at times I'll leave a torrent downloading at night... sometimes the computer is still on in the morning, and other times the computer is completely shut down.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:44 am
by artic_squirrel
it happened to me the same thing, but only one time
at (in ?) the morning, i saw the laptop shut down
i absolutely didn't get it
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:19 pm
by sarbin
thermal protection shutdown, maybe?
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:32 pm
by gongo2k1
whoa... another gongo!
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:35 pm
by awolfe63
I had a T42 with a bad fan/heat sink that would do that. I could eventually make it happen by running games or CPU benchmarks. I used MOBmeter to watch the temperature and at 92C it would go black.
Try it and see if that is your problem.
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:24 am
by adrianaitken
Bittorrent client set to shutdown after downloadings finished?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:17 pm
by gongo
it might be a heat thing.. although the computer isn't folding or anything like that.. i touch it and it's really hot.. hotter than i think it should be... i'll monitor the temp and maybe get with lenovo or something
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:32 pm
by gongo
so i was just on my computer again surfing the net and my computer shut down.. 'm using real temp 2.70 to monitor my cpu temps... any suggestions on the range it should be in?
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:39 pm
by sarbin
what's it getting up to?
i think that the thermal limit for intel cpus is 100C.
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:54 am
by artic_squirrel
gongo wrote:so i was just on my computer again surfing the net and my computer shut down.. 'm using real temp 2.70 to monitor my cpu temps... any suggestions on the range it should be in?
you could try to reduce the heat with rightmark cpu clock
you undervolt your cpu in order to see if this comes from it
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:17 am
by BetterBob
If it's XP, I'm pretty sure the default system setting for system error is to restart.
You may want to set the system to "show bluescreen" and see if that helps.
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/bsod.php
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:53 pm
by henrikb
FYI, I've got an Thinkpad X60 w/ XP Pro that is now almost 2 yrs old and started to observe similar issues 6 mths ago. It has happened to me multiple times. The symptom is that XP puts itself in Standby mode. If you try to restart, it do the same thing again; it sometimes reaches the login screen sometimes it goes in standby after a few seconds.
This seems to happen when I computer is heavily used. To me it seems to correlate also to heavy disk access. I know that it did happen once when the computer was cool - it happened within minutes after it was started (after being off for hours). I cannot reproduce the behavior "on demand", which is also why I haven't bothered to bring it up with Lenovo (the catch 22 with warranty issues).
That's all I got for now.
/HB