I had a similar experience w/ a T400s last year. wound up having system board replaced under warranty. Error logs were just like your - no real hint at what the root cause was. They initially just replaced the CPU fan, but were back 3 days later to do the whole board b/c it happened again after the new fan was installed.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Scott Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all, replying to several comments... > > > Bad power supply? Flaky power jack? > > I don't think this is it -- firstly, I have the battery plugged in -- > it has also happened when plugged into two different power supplies. > But if you meant an internal power, then that's different. > > > > I saw this on a T410 caused by a bad stick of RAM. > > I could try removing the RAM (though I've had the same RAM in this > laptop for about a year). Trouble is, it only seems to happen every 10 > days or so. > > > > faulty CPU fan > > I haven't noticed the fan not running -- but could it be that the fan > is running, but not communicating that to the laptop? If it shuts down > for that reason, would it record something in the Event Viewer? > > > > browse the logs under "event viewer" > > Thanks, I looked there, and I do see several recent "Critical > > Kernel-Power" events -- but they seem to say "The system has rebooted > without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the > system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly" -- > which leads me to believe these events are just telling me that I > crashed, rather than what happened? > > Thanks again to all -- it looks like this has happened 6 times in the > last 2 months, and never before. > > -Scott > _______________________________________________ > 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
