A22M crashes

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#1 Post by **richk** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:45 pm

I have a friend's A22M that I volunteered to try to fix. I have never worked on an IBM laptop before. The problem looks to me like overheating. The crashing is intermittent - sometimes it runs all day; sometimes it runs for a minute. I opened the case to see if there was dust around the fan, but it looked clean. I pulled the fan and reseated the heat sink using Artic Silver, and according to speedfan, the temperature dropped 4 degrees (from 51 to 47 C) Speedfan, doesn't seem to be able to read the CPU temperature, because the only temperature sensor it reports stays constant, even when I run a piece of software to exercise the CPU. I have never heard the fan come on, and when I asked the owner, she said that she doesn't remember hearing the fan ever. (I am used to a Toshiba that sounds like a 747 when the fan comes on) Is there any way to test the fan? Do you think the fan is the problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Rich

Deb Suran · #2 Post by **Deb Suran** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:42 am

Read the sticky at the top of this section.

#3 Post by **richk** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:56 am

Sorry, I read it after I posted. Thanks for the reply.

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