[Gllug] Spontaneous shutdown of laptop

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:31:23AM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> My laptop - a Lenovo 3000 N200 - did something rather odd this morning.
> 
> I left it doing a long compile (OK - it was a kernel compile) which usually
> takes it about 35 mins.
> 
> When I came back it was powered off.  Not just crashed - switched off.  It
> had clearly shut down uncleanly because the file system journals had to be
> replayed when I turned it on again.  I've checked the battery and that's
> fine, and in any case it was running from mains power.
> 
> My only thought is that it might have been switched off my some sort of
> thermal protection device built into the laptop.  It's a couple of years
> old, and I've never opened it up to check for dust build-up.  Is this
> something which a laptop is likely to contain?  Can anyone think of another
> reason why one would spontaneously switch itself off?
> 
> I didn't have time to investigate further this morning, but will probably
> open it up tonight.

When you will look at it diligently for 20 minutes and it will shut down in
the 45 seconds that you disappear for a pee!

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