9.10 and sudden reboots on a Lenovo T60 thinkpad

[NoOp]

On 03/04/2010 05:55 AM, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Check your logs for a message which indicates ACPI thinks something is
>> over temperature and a shutdown was initiated.  I have had intermittent
>> temperature sensor problems on my T61 which has caused it to shutdown on
>> occasion.  Other folks have had the same problem and it appears to be a
>> rather odd ACPI bug.  The message in the logs is something like:
>>
>> Critical temperature reached...
>>
> 
> Nope.  Plus, this is not a normal OS shut-down.  Yesterday, for example, I
> was composing an email in Chrome/Gmail and the screen just when black and
> within a second the Thinkpad's BIOS splash screen displayed.  As if the
> machine was off and I just turned it on to start it up.    Nothing to
> indicate it was restarting or halting or anything in the logs I could see.

Still might be a temp issue. Had nearly exact same issue on one of my
old desktops. Finally did get a critical temp msg in bios; ended up
pulling the cpu fan etc., cleaning & reapplying new thermal
grease/heatsink compound. The old stuff was baked to the point it was
like clay. No issues since.