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AWiggerInTime

X60 hangs randomly?

Question / Problem

Hi, I recently managed to get an X60 in a pretty good shape and I'm super stoked on it.

At least I was before I discovered that it likes to hang during IO (seemingly, it might as well be random). It mostly happens when I start clicking around during software downloads or loading something, no matter the OS. It even happened when during loading memtest, but second time's the charm (did a single pass so far, the memory seems ok).

With RAM mostly ruled out, I went after the BIOS (my ver is 2.07 and 2.10 promises some critical reliability fixes), but my batt is dead and I have to wait for a replacement one, just to be able to run the DOS updater.

In the meantime, has anyone encountered something like this before? Or is my X60 just screwed?

Posted Apr 12, 2021, 7:28 AM UTC

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WesterdutchW530, X230, Helix, X201, T400, T61, T60p, T60, T41...•

My number 1 suspect would be a dying harddrive. Boot from a live environment with the main drive physically removed to see how that goes.

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AWiggerInTimeOP•

I actually swapped the drive for a bigger one with OpenBSD and also tried booting both W10 and memtest from 2 pendrives. I got at least a single freeze with each method :(

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WesterdutchW530, X230, Helix, X201, T400, T61, T60p, T60, T41...•

Ouch, that does not sound very promising. Have you tried running any other diagnostics?

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AWiggerInTimeOP•

The first one I went with was the bios update. It says it should take about one minute. It has been 10 minutes already. I think I just nuked it.

EDIT: Nope? A reboot showed that everything still works. So I tried it a few times. It always freezes right before the operation. Weird.

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channex81•

As the previous poster said possibly HDD failure but also what are the temps like the X60 runs HOT as it is. When my X61 was new I thought it was broken as it got that hot it burnt my legs from the bottom and wrist from the palm rest! So old paste a naturally hot running CPU and an poor thermal case design / weak fan could cause these issues too. Im pretty sure you can still boot an OS from the SD card slot on the X60 series as I remember doing so on mine so try that to eliminate the HDD if you haven’t got another handy to test.

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