From: "Julian Thomas" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2653170 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:50:36 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.randr ([192.168.200.201] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1OytgY-0005TL-6Q for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:50:35 -0400 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:1032) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OytgW-00023u-0w for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:50:32 -0400 Received: (qmail 5375 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2010 21:50:30 -0000 Received: from 24.93.31.28 (HELO asus) (24.93.31.28) by relay02.pair.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2010 21:50:30 -0000 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.4C9BCBA8.0117,ss=1,fgs=0 X-pair-Authenticated: 24.93.31.28 Message-ID: <100.b8460b00a5cb9b4c.022@jt-mj.net> To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:50:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: References: Priority: Normal User-Agent: PMMail/3.07 (os/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; i386; ver 3.07.38.1547) X-Mailer: PMMail 3.07.38.1547 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] T60 hangs in eCS boot On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:40:01 -0400 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >I was going to suggest clearing the CMOS, but it's likely that leting it= >sit drained whatever capacitor was keeping the junk floating around live= . > >Whenever things like this occur, it is good practice to pull the battery= >& AC, press and hold the power button for 30-60 seconds (or press it >repeatedly 10 times; it depends upon which tech you ask), then >reassemble and power up. Alternatively, pulling the CMOS battery can do = >wonders, as can enabling AMT in the BIOS, power cycling, turning it off = >again, and power cycling, and of course, the old standby: re-seat the RA= M. > >That said, it appears that what you were experiencing may have been as a= >result of some ACPI register not getting properly reset upon exiting >Windows. Carl's suggestion was a good one: be sure to do a clean power >off/on between boot cycles. In your case, though, it may not have been >enough without the extra delay. > This is still bugging me. If I boot the machine cold to eCS, it's OK. I= f I reboot, it will boot to XP or Linux, but not eCS. Today it got past the problem point but then hung opening the WPS. Reboo= t (power off - quickly on) and it hung. Later, after an off period and a boot to linux, it boot= ed up OK. I may have just discovered a key. If I shutdown to a reboot, and then po= wer off, it seems to be OK; If I shutdown to off (where I then have to turn it off by hand) I see= m to have the problem. -- Julian Thomas: jt@jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western New York State! -- -- Four wheel drive allows you to get stuck in places even more inaccessible.