Arrgh!

[jethrien]

That's the second time today that my computer has spontaneously shut itself off! No warning, no blue screen, it just suddenly reboots! One second I'm in the middle of composing an email, the next I'm staring at the little flying Windows icon as it starts up again! WTF?

Comments

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

Might be overheating... see if it feels hot. Alternatively, might be gremlins.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It's always run hot. It's my first laptop (and it's a bit on the elderly side), so I'm not sure what the temp's supposed to be. But it's not running any hotter now than it was six months ago.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

Also, if it IS an IBM laptop (and it happens to be from SCI your freshman year), we have the same computer...and you may want to back up all your data, just in case. Those laptops eat hard drives like crazy.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It is an IBM laptop. It isn't from SCI - this is my work laptop. Fortunately, I keep almost nothing on this harddrive - all my work's saved to the company servers.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. Yeah, if it's an older IBM model (mine is a T22), they do eat the hard drives...which could also be causing blips like you're experiencing.

Once, my computer froze on me and wouldn't boot for like, a month. I took it in to get fixed (and to get the data recovered, because I assumed that the hard drive got eaten again), and when I got it back, it was all intact. It just stopped booting for a month, for no reason...and was fine after they "reset" it which was probably just taking out the battery for a little while and maybe running it through some power cycles.