[ltp] Total lockup on a T40

[Hartwig, Thomas]

You should contact IBM for this. Do you hear a fan sometimes. Perhaps 
your CPU is overheated?! There are absolutely no lockups with mine here.

Greets
Thomas

pete hilton wrote:
> Hi there,
>         I have a T40 modul 58U ... 1.3GHz processor, 1440x1050 display
> I have a 40G drive and 768M of memory.
> 
> At random times the whole machine just locks up solid ... no response
> from any key combination .. big red switch time.  This happens using
> Windows 2000, Redhat 9, Slackware 9 and 9.1 .. with Linux it is always
> when I have Xwindows running.  It appears to be triggered when I am
> moving the mouse (the little joystick thingy in the keyboard) and when
> there is much CPU activity but I wouldnt swear to this .. it may be
> just that this is when I realise it has happened).  A (possibly)
> related symptom might be that when I get out of Xwindows and into the
> standard login shell the display is not reset quite right ... I have
> to logout and then log back in to fix it.
> 
> The lockup is happening often enough that it is interfering with my
> work but not in any way that I can predict.  Is anyone else seeing
> this or have I got a lemon ... it would be nice to know before I go do
> battle with IBM Service to try and get it fixed.
> 
> cheers
> pete
>