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    Your very own Pikachu! Banned Peegee's Avatar
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    Grin Okay..this mad me make yes! :aimmad:

    Did I post about this before? Anyway the laptop my uncle left in my care that kept rebooting is doing it waaaay too often. A recap --

    X30 thinkpad
    reboots during post as well as if I accidentally make it to windows
    I've removed and reset the dimm and the HDD
    I've tried to boot without the hdd installed -- still shuts off
    I'm mad/sad/givened up

    What is there left to do? Also the IDE HDD I brought from canada won't 'boot' when I plug it in using my usb device...-_-

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    Try the ram in another laptop, check the fans.

    And then there is Death

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    Check all the BIOS settings. My computer used to have the odd habit of magically turning on after shut down because I accidentally had "wake on modem" turned on.

    Other than that, try the RAM or check the temperature to make sure it's not overheating.


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    Chock up another vote for temperature/ram problems.

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    Yeah, give us your temp readout in BIOS. If your BIOS has an option to shutdown your system if it goes over a given temp, disable and see if it'll still reboot. Try out several cold boots where you've left the system off for a while and see how long before the system reboots again.

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