[ltp] ThinkPad 770 suspend/shutdown at random

[doowirb7@home.com]

I disabled the cover-closed suspend function in ps2, and since then it has
only gone to sleep on me once in several hours of usage (which I'm hoping
was just a fluke).  But still very often when I turn it on, right before
it's about to check for a bootdisk, it gives a long, low pitched beep and
shuts off.  Usually if I let it sit for 20 minutes it'll work again.  I was
also thinking it could be a BIOS problem... I tried upgrading it but it says
I need a battery (which I don't have).  Does the BIOS upgrade program
actually check the level of the battery?  If it doesn't, there's always
someone selling a dead battery for the 770 on eBay :-D

on 7/23/01 2:56 AM, Nicolai Nielsen at DUFVA@dk.ibm.com wrote:

>I had a similar problem with my 600E and it turned out to be nothing but
> the detect-when-the-lid-is-closed-switch<tm> that was broken.
> 
> You can test it by turning off the suspend-when-lid-is-closed<tm> function
> of the thinkpad utilities (don't know it it can be done from PS2.EXE).
> 
> 
>> After about 5 minutes since I
>> booted, while I was doing the package selection, it just suspended for no
>> reason.  I woke it up and resumed the package selection and about 10
>> minutes
>> later it just shut off suddenly while SuSE was installing! I tried the
>> install again, but this time after about 45 seconds, it suspended again.
>> With every attempt  made to wake it up, it would just show the screen for
>> a second then go back to suspend.


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