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Date:	Thu, 8 May 2003 09:17:03 PDT7
From:	GARY.WONG@sbcglobal.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: ThinkPad T20 freezes/locks up, continued

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Now I'm not so sure it's the hard drive. Here's why:

I booted the ThinkPad this morning (after not turning
it on all day yesterday), and it booted all the way
into MCP2! I then went into PMMail and read some e-
mails that I downloaded early Sunday morning but was
unable to read because the machine froze-up.

Then I booted from the MCP2 CD's and re-wrote the MBR
after some trial and error (syntax is LVM /NEWMBR:1,
apparently it wants the drive #, because "LVM /NEWMBR"
said it's missing a ":", then "LVM /NEWMBR:" said it
wants a drive #.)

I deleted and re-created BM (although it's not exactly
the way I wanted it).

Finally it appears to me that after roughly 1/2 hour
of being on, the machine froze while booting from the
MCP2 CD's.

At this point, since I was able to boot cold from the
HD, would you say maybe the MB is too hot and the
machine freezes (which may mean either the temp.
sensor that tells the cooling fan to turn on is bad,
or the cooling fan itself, or both)?

--- Original Message ---
From: "Steven Levine"
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: ThinkPad T20 freezes/locks up,
continued

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>In ZZ@www2.prodigy.net>, on 05/07/03
> at 04:37 PM, GARY.WONG@sbcglobal.net said:
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>>1) Sometimes BM comes up but then freezes (I can't
use
>>the up/down cursor keys to select between Win98 or
>>MCP2). Or for that matter hitting the Enter key
>>doesn't do anything.
>>2) If I do select Win98, it freezes at the Win98
>>splash screen, or after it goes black.
>>3) If I select MCP2 (the default), it freezes at the
>>white OS/2 blob in the upper left-hand corner, or at
>>the OS/2 Warp splash screen with the kernel revision
>>in the lower left-hand corner.
>
>I'm confused. If the cursor and enter keys don't
work, how do you select
>Winxx?
>
>>At this point, yes I am not sure if it's the
contents
>>of the hard drive, or some other hardware problem.
>
>Can you boot with the MCP CD or with the MCP install
diskettes? You can
>make a set of MCP install diskette on another
machine, if you don't have
>them.
>
>Steven
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