Thinkpad X32 went to sleep, woke up as space heater

Thinkpad X32 went to sleep, woke up as space heater

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

I did suspend-to-ram yesterday on thinkpad x32, while docked in
docking station.... I do  not think I've done that before, because
docking only works for a few weeks. This morning I wake up okay,
unfortunately that thinkpad woke up as a portable, battery-backed-up
space heater :-(.

I can turn it on, it blinks keyboard leds and starts CPU fan, but
that's it. Tried removing battery and AC power for a few minutes, but
it made no difference. Tried pressing various keys during power on, no
reaction. Not even keyboard light reacts.

That machine may stil be covered by warranty (but I'm not sure if
that's good news, I primarily want my data back...)

							Pavel

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Re: Thinkpad X32 went to sleep, woke up as space heater

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:51:49AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I did suspend-to-ram yesterday on thinkpad x32, while docked in
> docking station.... I do  not think I've done that before, because
> docking only works for a few weeks. This morning I wake up okay,
> unfortunately that thinkpad woke up as a portable, battery-backed-up
> space heater :-(.

Ouch, that's gotta hurt plenty.

> I can turn it on, it blinks keyboard leds and starts CPU fan, but
> that's it. Tried removing battery and AC power for a few minutes, but
> it made no difference. Tried pressing various keys during power on, no
> reaction. Not even keyboard light reacts.

Did you try pressing Insert(?) on bootup? AFAIR this is supposed to setup
factory defaults on some BIOSes. Maybe there are some other special keys
for certain BIOS versions... (do an internet search, especially for Phoenix
BIOS since many notebooks are Phoenix-based).
But of course the machine may easily be as screwed as not even executing
a single BIOS instruction any more...

> That machine may stil be covered by warranty (but I'm not sure if
> that's good news, I primarily want my data back...)

Is opening the drive box and connecting to a 2.5" adapter on a desktop
within safe warranty ranges? Perhaps not, but if it is then I'd do it.

Andreas Mohr

Re: Thinkpad X32 went to sleep, woke up as space heater

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I did suspend-to-ram yesterday on thinkpad x32, while docked in
> docking station.... I do  not think I've done that before, because
> docking only works for a few weeks. This morning I wake up okay,
> unfortunately that thinkpad woke up as a portable, battery-backed-up
> space heater :-(.
> 
> I can turn it on, it blinks keyboard leds and starts CPU fan, but
> that's it. Tried removing battery and AC power for a few minutes, but
> it made no difference. Tried pressing various keys during power on, no
> reaction. Not even keyboard light reacts.
> 
> That machine may stil be covered by warranty (but I'm not sure if
> that's good news, I primarily want my data back...)

With vojtech, we were able to disconnect CMOS backup battery,
reconnect it and machine recovered. But be warned that that connector
is very fragile. In fact I do not have connector there any
more... just few pieces of broken plastics.

						Pavel

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Thanks, Sharp!