My wife says it goes to sleep, she travels quite a bit and I have not witnessed the behavior first hand, after almost twenty years of marriage if she says it went to sleep then it went to sleep!
Sfink On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Scott Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, mine has spontaneously shut down, and from what I remember I lowered > the CPU speed, and that seemed to help -- but I just looked, and it seems to > be back at 100%. I've also blown out the laptop, and less dust seems to > help. But I wonder if some Vista update might also have fixed the problem -- > I didn't chime in earlier b/c you said suspend, but mine would just turn > off. > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Steve Finkelstein" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:10 PM > To: <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] X61 with Vista randomly goes to sleep > > I thought it was very strange too, my wife says it has even happened while >> she is typing. Searching at the lenovo forum, I found a discussion of >> this >> laptop shutting down spontaneously from overheating, and even one or two >> mentions of the laptop spontaneously sleeping. This model has one cooling >> fan, though lenovo sells the same model with an embedded cellular card >> that >> then comes with a second fan. l am going to make sure all her power >> management/bios/embedded controller drivers are all up to date and hope >> that >> it will help. >> >> >> From: Felix Wolf <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:05:07 +0100 >> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] X61 with Vista randomly goes to sleep >> That sounds somehow strange, is this happening while anyone is typing or >> when not? Can you try to boot a Live-Linux System and see if it happens >> there? >> Felix >> Steve Finkelstein wrote: >> My wife has an X61 laptop configuration not tablet, with Windows Vista, >> and >> she can be randomly working even with laptop docked and it will go into >> sleep while she is working on it. She is definitely connected to the dock >> and AC Power. I have checked her power management settings and there are >> no >> profiles set up with sleep as one of the options. Could it actually be a >> failing battery causing this or is there some other place I should be >> looking. >> Thanks is advance. >> Sfink >> ______________________________ >> >>> >>> _________________ >>> Thinkpad mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >>> >> >> >> Sfink >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >> > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
