Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> I have a two-year-old ThinkPad T60. It recently developed some
> screen problems--the display was losing colors, and finally
> started to die completely, going to black shortly after
> startup--so I sent it back for a warranty repair. I pulled the
> hard drive before I shipped it.
>
> It's back now, but the machine is now locking up hard at
> various points in the boot process. The first few times it
> froze at "Setting the system clock"; then at "Activing
> swapfile swap". Now it is booting all the way and letting me
> log into Gnome, but then locks up soon after. Needless to say,
> it was working fine (aside from the screen) before the repair.
>
> They included a note saying that they had also upgraded the
> BIOS and embedded controller--to 2.23 and 1.07 respectively.
>
> I'm running Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.29-2-686.
>
> I'd be very grateful for any suggestion about what might have
> caused this, and for how to evaluate and fix it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower


Have you thought about testing it with a Live CD?

I would recommend the SimplyMEPIS version 8.0.06 it's based on Lenny 
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05447 and if it works ok, you can go to 
the Kmenu, System, Mepis, Mepis System Assistant and check and repair 
your partitions. It also has the tools needed for most computer 
maintenance like Testdisk, GParted etc and good to have in your toolbox.
--
Jimmy Johnson

Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A.
Registered Linux User #380263
K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid)