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ian · #1 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:19 am

Just a quickie to say my beautiful 2372-CWU is here, she's very black and new and I feel sure I'll be writing a full report soon - and so far NO DEAD PIXIES !!!!!

Long live Thinkpads dot com and God bless all who sail in her...

n3il · #2 Post by **n3il** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:31 am

Ian,

Congratulations on a fine purchase. May you have many years of great use from her.

But remember - just because there are no dead pixies - you have to watch out for the ones that want to escape - a flying pixie can be difficult to catch!!!!

ian · #3 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:33 am

N3il - I can finally change my signature (up with the BIG boys now) - and I'm looking forward to lottsa fun with the machine!

PS. I PM'd you but the messages don't seem to be getting thru

G-Man · #4 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:40 am

Congratulations! I'm sure you're not going to sleep much tonight. New Golf, new ThinkPad, (maybe a new wife

)... Can you handle all these?

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #5 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:20 pm

Well, I think I could probably 'drague' a bit with the Golf, but I'm pretty sure any self respecting woman would know when to give up - confronted with a Thinkpad they just wouldn't stand a chance ! Seriously though, it's been a while (on the woman front that is) and I'm not altogether sure I'd know what to do...they seem to be missing the Ctrl-Alt-Delete button...

G-Man · #6 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:30 pm

ian wrote:...they seem to be missing the Ctrl-Alt-Delete button...

Yeah, and the Power button.

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #7 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:40 pm

Ain't that the truth...

ian · #8 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:06 pm

Ok guys - now here's a serious question. Had the beast about 5 hours now, and I've spent a little time playing - inbetween obligations like 'work' etc. and I've noticed something that I'm not at all happy about.

While loading Norton (a full version) everything just hung - not disk, full display but no noise - zilch.

While searching for a network connection - same thing. This has now happened about 5 times - and I don't think it's normal. Should I ask IBM to send me a new hard disk, do a recovery and see what gives? Or is this indicative of worse problems - seems a shame as the screen really is perfect.

Any clues for sudden hangs? Any diagnostics useful to run? (Not being used to modern Thinkpads...)

lilserenity · #9 Post by **lilserenity** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:32 pm

G-Man wrote:
ian wrote:...they seem to be missing the Ctrl-Alt-Delete button...
Yeah, and the Power button.

Regards,
G-Man

*chews delicately on end of her whip* Power, button, you say...

Floppy disks eh?

Vicky
(you didn't see that one coming....

wild stallion indeed)

G-Man · #10 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:32 pm

Did it hung when the system was virgin (with the original programs, no additional softwares installed)? Also try to turn off or decrease the level of the hard disk "Airbag." Does Ctrl-Alt-Del work? Can you see what program is using the CPU?

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #11 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:38 pm

When the system was virgin - yes
Ctrl-alt-del DOES NOT WORK
By the same token, I can't get into the device manager to see what is running...

Virgin - yes, virgin on the ridiculous (Sorry Vics, couldn't resist that ...)

G-Man · #12 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:40 pm

Vicky,

Of course you are an exception. I would never use Ctrl-Alt-Del on you, and I would never turn you off... but turn you... you know.

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #13 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:49 pm

Can we stick to the subject here - namely me !!

lilserenity · #14 Post by **lilserenity** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:50 pm

G-Man wrote:Vicky,

Of course you are an exception. I would never use Ctrl-Alt-Del on you, and I would never turn you off... but turn you... you know.

Regards,
G-Man

Oh you scamp you, I know you'd turn me upside down, twirl me around all at the same time as sucking on a chupa chups lolly and push pop.

You know I forgot all about Push Pops until the other day when I saw them at the counter of a local shop, [censored] I've not seen those since I was a kid.

http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/shopexd.asp?id=269 - me want

Sounds like I need to find my Ctrl Alt Delete button and sort out my Task Manager... seems it's running a bit haywire

Vicky
Can I say that?

ian · #15 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:56 pm

G-man it's just gone again - this is MORE than wierd - any particular diagnostics available?

lilserenity · #16 Post by **lilserenity** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:05 pm

You say about the ethernet connection and it hanging then, possibly an issue with ethernet driver or the ethernet subsystem itself?

Vicky

ian · #17 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:09 pm

Possible - but would that really hang the system completely? I've never had that happen on the T21 (admitedly with it's DLINK PCMCIA, not built in) or my daughters 600e...seems a bit radical - more like a hd freeze.

The HD however, has just passed the PC doctor tests with flying colours - I'll run it a few more times...

Till then, I'll scan the network gubbins - why not !

G-Man · #18 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:51 pm

Sorry, I was working. What if you leave the Task Manager always on, so you can see what's wrong when the system hangs again (since the Task Manager won't come up when it hangs). I think (and hope) it's a software issue and not hardware. I told you that you won't sleep much tonight.

What Norton is that?

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #19 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:02 pm

Working? Wots that??

Norton Systemworks - don't really like it, but there's a copy of Antivirus 2004 so I use that.

Not bad, after I've finished a scan I'll start the Task manager...

As for it being software, I'm inclined to think so to as the Access Connections can't seem to get their collective heads around my wireless home network (DLink DI-614+) while directly coding on the network connections seems to hold - very wierd. When the AC finally get a grip, it only lasts a few minutes before dropping off again. And there I was thinking IBM's a/b/g card was better than the Intel one.

G-Man · #20 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:27 pm

Also make sure that Window's Wireless Zero is turned off when you use AC.

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #21 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:34 pm

Wot and more to the point where is that??

G-Man · #22 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:39 pm

http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/2000.html

Update (had to find a machine here running XP):
1. Right-click the My Network Places icon on your Windows desktop.
2. Choose the Properties option.
3. Right-click the network connection for the wireless network adapter.
4. Choose the Properties option.
5. Click the Wireless Networks tab.
6. Uncheck the Use Windows To Configure My Wireless Network Settings option.

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #23 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:18 pm

G-man

Firstly the wireless; since turning off the Wireless Zero config, A/ the wireless comes on fine - connects and seems to stay put and B/ I seem to have lost the Wireless Networks tab ! (not that I wanted it anyway - it causes me no end of problems on my machines at work)

Secondly, I think the problem of the system hanging is PROBABLY due to the second bar of 512 Mo of RAM I bought - again, I've had similar problems at work so I took it out and so far so good (Yeah I know, I'll probably have my mouth full of hat soon...)

I'll see how things go tomorrow - many many thanks for your input.

G-Man · #24 Post by **G-Man** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:53 pm

Oh yeah, the source of (almost) all problems: memory module. I completely forgot about it. What brand is it?

Regards,
G-Man

#25 Post by **erik** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:32 pm

ian, dump norton and pick up AVG. you'll be much happier in the long run.

-erik

ian · #26 Post by **ian** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:01 pm

G-man - Bill sent me a stick of GoldenRam - to be honest I've never heard of it, being a Kingston/Crucial type of guy (!!)

Erik - sounds interesting - my company buys me Norton, which is the principle reason I'm using it, but I have no particular 'passion' for it - we'll have to see - heck a new car and a T42 - gotta make economies SOMEWHERE !

G-Man · #27 Post by **G-Man** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:07 am

Then I guess you need to change the 1gig RAM to 512Mb in your signature.

Regards,
G-Man

ian · #28 Post by **ian** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:15 am

Smartass ! (But I did it anyway !!)

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