[ltp] Alien Forces? Electro-Magnetic fields? My Thinkpad T42 is possessed.

[Bert Haskins]

FWIW
I have had alien forces take take root in the memory area.
Try reseating your memory chips.
If you are lucky enough to have two of them try swapping them
around to different positions, each one alone in each position etc.
Some distros, Fedora core for example let you boot up from disk
1 into memtest86 which should run for long periods of time and
never show an error.

Not too long ago I was installing memory in one of my 390x
boxes when it displayed similar  problems to what you are having.
I swapped the chips around and each one would pass the
memory test but seem to fail when they were used together.
I then tried "one last swap" and the memory test ran for hours with
no errors.
Being a natural born glutton for punishment I swapped the chips
around again.

I think that all of this memory swapping must have annoyed the aliens
enough to leave because the box has been completely dependable ever since.

Go figure and good luck.
At the very least, its worth a try.
...Bert

Alejandro Bonilla wrote:

>Hi,
>
>	Yes, believe it or not. This is my problem: T42
>I took my baby lappy to the beach this weekend and this is what happens.
>The PC would hard lock once in Linux, would BSOD in Windows and then not
>start again. At all.
>I have unplugged the PC, used another battery, unplugged everything and
>pressed the power button. bla bla... Wont' work.
>
>She won't start. The HD spins, Fans work, Disk Tray can be opened, but I get
>no video nor Hard Drive activity.
>
>The odd thing, is that this happen to me once before, I took the PC to the
>same place, same desk and gave me the same exact problem. 1 Week later, it
>simply booted and gave no more problems, until now that I was in the same
>place. I really want to know why this is happening.
>
>PC was not exposed to sand, or was even close to the beach.
>Temp was about 30C but I anyway turned it inside, so, no direct contact to
>the Sun.
>Humidity is HIGH, but I don't see how that affects.
>Power was OK, I even tried with different battery, so it was not really a
>power issue.
>I did notice the Battery symbol blinked like 3 times, which is something I
>have only seen once before, which was the last time this happened.
>
>I really don't know what could be the problem. I'm praying for things to
>work in about a week or some days.
>
>Any idea?
>
> .Alejandro
>
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