T500 freezes correlated with 'disappearing' DVD drives
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:32 pm
A few minutes ago, for about the 10th time since I bought a T500, the laptop suddenly froze for more than a minute (completely unresponsive, mouse cursor not movable and so on). Then it came back alive as if nothing happened. Until a few days ago I thought it was a buggy Active Protection System (like other readers have suggested on this forum) and I had APS disabled (the laptop is sitting on my desk anyway). However, now I had the inspiration to check the event logs immediately after the freeze and found the following entries (most recent at the top) showing two things: first, that the 'connection' with the DVD drive had been lost for a short while (corresponding to the duration of the freeze) and, strangely, log entries from the wireless software. After some googling I haven't found a good explanation for the latter.
The first one seems to indicate a real connection problem or an intermittent controller failure (I have other problems that seem to be caused by the HDD or the controller, rather, they are described at http://forums.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=76037).
At this point, I'm just posting this information as I've seen other people complaining about the freezes. I suspect it's not a cable issue as the laptop is pretty imobile, I've seen it freezing even when using an external keyboard and mouse so there was zero contact with the laptop.
The first one seems to indicate a real connection problem or an intermittent controller failure (I have other problems that seem to be caused by the HDD or the controller, rather, they are described at http://forums.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=76037).
At this point, I'm just posting this information as I've seen other people complaining about the freezes. I suspect it's not a cable issue as the laptop is pretty imobile, I've seen it freezing even when using an external keyboard and mouse so there was zero contact with the laptop.
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3528,System,Service Control Manager,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:27 PM,7036,None,The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service entered the stopped state.
3527,System,Tcpip,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:22 PM,4201,None,The system detected that network adapter Intel(R)...Link 5300 AGN - Packet Scheduler Miniport was connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation over the network adapter.
3526,System,Service Control Manager,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:21 PM,7036,None,The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service entered the running state.
3525,System,Service Control Manager,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:21 PM,7035,SYSTEM\NT AUTHORITY,The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service was successfully sent a start control.
3524,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:19 PM,5005,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3523,System,PlugPlayManager,ERROR,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:18 PM,12,None,The device 'Optiarc DVD RW AD-7910S' (IDE\CdRomOptiarc_DVD_RW_AD-7910S_________________1.D0____\4&29592030&0&0.1.0) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.
3522,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3521,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3520,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3519,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3518,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3517,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3516,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3515,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3514,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3513,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3512,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3511,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3510,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3509,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3508,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3507,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3506,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3505,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3504,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3503,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3502,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3501,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3500,System,NETw5x32,INFORMATION,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,5002,None, Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
3499,System,Cdrom,ERROR,MU,01/05/2009 10:02:17 PM,15,None,The device, \Device\CdRom0, is not ready for access yet.
3498,System,iaStor,ERROR,MU,01/05/2009 10:01:02 PM,9,None,The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.
3497,System,Cdrom,ERROR,MU,01/05/2009 10:01:02 PM,15,None,The device, \Device\CdRom0, is not ready for access yet.