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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2003 12:38:23 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: ThinkPad T20 freezes/locks up

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In <200305050421.h454LRFZ083234@pimout4-ext.prodigy.net>, on 05/04/03
at 09:21 PM, "Gary Wong" said:

>I ended the phone call with IBM where they feel the contents of the hard
>drive (i.e. Boot Manager, Win 98, OS/2) are corrupted enough to cause the
>machine to freeze. They suggested wiping out the hard drive and then
>reloading Win98 from a recovery CD that came with the ThinkPad.

Don't you just love the simple solutions?

>What do you think? (especially Steven) Is it the contents of the hard
>drive, or is it the motherboard, RAM, or something else?

It really smells like hardware.

You can rule out BM without much pain. Use LVM to:

- rewrite the MBR
- delete and reinstall BM
- restore the settings

Steven

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