automatic shutdown?

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gongo · #1 Post by **gongo** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:46 am

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?

sarbin · #2 Post by **sarbin** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:11 pm

randomly shutting down? or after what seems like a consistent inactive time interval?

gongo · #3 Post by **gongo** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:19 pm

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.

artic_squirrel · #4 Post by **artic_squirrel** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:44 am

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

sarbin · #5 Post by **sarbin** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:19 pm

thermal protection shutdown, maybe?

gongo2k1 · #6 Post by **gongo2k1** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:32 pm

whoa... another gongo!

awolfe63 · #7 Post by **awolfe63** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:35 pm

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.

adrianaitken · #8 Post by **adrianaitken** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:24 am

Bittorrent client set to shutdown after downloadings finished?

gongo · #9 Post by **gongo** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:17 pm

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

gongo · #10 Post by **gongo** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:32 pm

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?

sarbin · #11 Post by **sarbin** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:39 pm

what's it getting up to?
i think that the thermal limit for intel cpus is 100C.

artic_squirrel · #12 Post by **artic_squirrel** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:54 am

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

BetterBob · #13 Post by **BetterBob** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:17 am

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

henrikb · #14 Post by **henrikb** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:53 pm

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

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