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T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#1 Post by khary23 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:52 am

My machine has really started to act up the past two days. I had three blue screen crashes yesterday and one today. Todays said it was a BAD_POOL_CALLER. The temperature has been running up between 70C and 92C depending on what I have running and I have noticed that when the temp gets around 90C that's when it starts to freeze up. I bought a new battery a week ago, but the freezing and crashing only started yesterday so I don't know if they are related. I ran a hardware scan using the ThinkVantage tool box and every thing passed. The fan is running quietly and seems to be moving a good deal of air. I would like to ask what I can do to pin point the problem(s). Thanks in advance.

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#2 Post by sarbin » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:34 am

might be good to pull the fan/heatsink assembly and refresh the thermal compound with some arctic silver (or similar), and really blow out all the dust bunnies. pretty easy job without too much tear-down. if you don't already have it, here's the link to the hardware maintenance manual: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... 844_04.pdf

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#3 Post by khary23 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:08 pm

I will give it a try thanks!

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#4 Post by Neil » Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:29 pm

While you are in there, check that the fan still works at all. They do wear out and just quit.
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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#5 Post by khary23 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:38 pm

Opened it up and cleaned out the colony of dust bunnies and reapplied some thermal compound. It ran for four hours then froze up again during a back up . I was unable to see what the temperature was because my screen saver was up at the time it froze. For the first two hours while I was working the tems were between 63C and 80C. the fan is working, but I don't know if it is moving as much air as it should.

Are there other reasons that it could be freezing so often and how can I trouble shoot?

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#6 Post by pianowizard » Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:42 pm

Turn off the computer, remove the battery, power it back on and run it on AC. See if this problem persists. If it's gone, then the battery is the culprit.
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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#7 Post by khary23 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:48 pm

pianowizard wrote:Turn off the computer, remove the battery, power it back on and run it on AC. See if this problem persists. If it's gone, then the battery is the culprit.
I will test it but, would this happen with a brand new battery?

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#8 Post by Temetka » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:37 pm

Is it an OEM battery?
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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#9 Post by khary23 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:49 pm

Yes it is

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#10 Post by ajkula66 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:05 pm

Just run the machine with no battery for a few hours and see what happens...
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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#11 Post by khary23 » Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:03 am

Has been running since about 12:30 on A/C with no freezing temps even getting as high as 90C at times.

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#12 Post by ajkula66 » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:17 am

Install ThinkPad Fan Control and see what that does for you.

While no freezing is a good sign, 90C is a lot unless you were gaming or stress-testing the machine.

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Re: T60p running hot, freezing, and crashing

#13 Post by khary23 » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:10 am

My Zone Alarm found the Heuristic Trojan.Win32.Generic and Packed.Win32.Krap.hc viruses which were removed. It has been running afterwards with out freezing. I also contacted the retailer that I purchased the battery from and he suggested that I update my BIOS. I did so and the machine has been running in the 45C to 78C range since.

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