Staying in the family...

[maxinflixion]

Now that I am over my grand illusions that my T22 would be worth more to others than myself I have decided to keep it.

It will be a total walkabout machine so my wife will have to grin and bear it through another PC. I am very happy to have this sturdy little guy in (and out of) teh house. At 8 lbs., our current lappy is more of a desktop.

I do have a couple of questions.

1) What would be the max CPU I could upgrade to on a 2647-3eu?

2) I seem to have had a few instances of total freezing. I am not sure if it is an Ubuntu thing, a not enough RAM (at 256mb), a TP thing or a combination. Anyone else get freezing? I mean TOTAL freeze. No mouse movement even and a total power down becomes necessary...

[Kaervak]

2) I seem to have had a few instances of total freezing. I am not sure if it is an Ubuntu thing, a not enough RAM (at 256mb), a TP thing or a combination. Anyone else get freezing? I mean TOTAL freeze. No mouse movement even and a total power down becomes necessary...

Interesting, I though my T23 was the only one. I'm using OpenSuse 10.2 and the default kernel freezes on my system. I switched to a different kernel and there's been no problems since. Try running with ACPI disabled and see if it still locks up on you. I have no idea how to change it in Ubuntu though. If it doesn't lock up with ACPI disabled that's pretty telling of what's wrong.

[nikki605]

the max CPU speed for any T2x series TP is 1GHz. Look for an Intel SL53S. I bought mine on eBay for about $20 plus shipping.

EDIT: My above statement is not quite correct. The T20, T21 & T22 can run up to a 1GHz CPU. The T23 shipped with one of four CPUs - 866MHz, 1GHz, 1.13GHz or 1.2GHz. Sorry for any confusion

[Purcy]

......... and I'd up that RAM to 512MB too, the max for the T22. Glad you're keeping it

[maxinflixion]

2) I seem to have had a few instances of total freezing. I am not sure if it is an Ubuntu thing, a not enough RAM (at 256mb), a TP thing or a combination. Anyone else get freezing? I mean TOTAL freeze. No mouse movement even and a total power down becomes necessary...

Interesting, I though my T23 was the only one. I'm using OpenSuse 10.2 and the default kernel freezes on my system. I switched to a different kernel and there's been no problems since. Try running with ACPI disabled and see if it still locks up on you. I have no idea how to change it in Ubuntu though. If it doesn't lock up with ACPI disabled that's pretty telling of what's wrong.

I noticed that every time I get a freeze, I am running Firefox. I am going to play with Epiphany for a while and see if it cures it.

[Purcy]

I noticed that every time I get a freeze, I am running Firefox. I am going to play with Epiphany for a while and see if it cures it.

Firefox does like to eat RAM, have you ever fooled with the Firefox tweaks?? type this into your address bar on Firefox and all the user configurations come up:

about:config

[SaderBiscut]

I'm not sure whats up with the total freezing, but usally it's bad. The last time my laptop started doing that, I eventually had to replace the motherboard.

However, this was partly my fault I think, because only one programs, Tribes 2, was causing the freezing, and I kept trying to get it to work...and eh...

It didn't. Eventually it would freeze with a high-pitched whine and horizontal lines would appear across my screen. Eventually it would start randomly locking up (without running Tribes) and then it wouldn't turn on at all...

I replaced the motherboard, and no more crashes. Period. I haven't bothered trying Tribes 2 again, I don't think I'll push my luck. Although, it did work fine for several months before it started 'freezing'.

I think the lesson in this is, whenever your T series laptop starts locking up when you do a certain task, don't do that specific task.

It could have nothing to do with the other incidents, but I'm just sharing my story and offering a word of caution.

[maxinflixion]

Yeah, after a few freezes, I decided that I am going to part with this thing (the freezes seem to be Linux driver related).

I installed XP and dropped it on Craigslist locally.

This does NOT mean I am leaving the family though. I am now actively seeking a newer model Thinkpad...

[SaderBiscut]

I'm not sure if a driver caused it, but I suspect the GPU simply started to fail and it just went down hill, and would have crashed completly at some point no matter what I did.

But I dunno, does anyone have an insight on what causes this? In all honesty I don't think a game should be capable of breaking your GPU, that's sounds kinda stupid as an after thought.

And, I guess they could be totally unrelated. It's still disturbing to have your laptop randomly lock up.

[rkawakami]

System freezing could be related to several things:

Hardware:
- memory error
- motherboard timing issue
- CPU
- hard drive

Software:
- video driver
- corrupt file on disk drive

With the symptom of totally locking up I'd lean toward something I encountered a couple of months ago in this post:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 414#271414

@SaderBiscut: A broken connection to a crystal could result in a system freeze. Any chance you still have that motherboard?