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s3knaf
Vista Ultimate installed on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60, All has been
working great for months.
However (and you knew it was coming, else why would I post
- about
a month ago an issue started.
**Only** after I left the machine on, and it has been idle about 30
minutes it locks up.
The screen has gone blank, and hitting a key will bring it back on,
but all I can do is
move the mouse pointer. No keys do anything, no ctrl-alt-delete,
clicking the mouse
has no response, all I can do is move the pointer.
If fact it's so locked up so the clock in the taskbar stops at the
point that it locked up.
I tried turning off UAC, as I had read in another post, but that has
not made any difference.
On 10/10 there were some Microsoft updates installed, but other than
that I have not installed
anything different - this is the only one that looks OS related:
Security Update for Windows Vista (KB933729)
Can have outlook and whatever running, or nothing running; same
situation.
I would really rather not re-install at this point. I am downloading
Knoppix (linux on a disc)
just to confirm it is not a hardware issue, which I do not believe it
is.
Any ideas out there ???
The laptop does not lock up all day, as long as I do not have that 30
minute idle time (maybe it's the boss trying to get me to skip lunch
and meetings
TIA,
- Knaf
working great for months.
However (and you knew it was coming, else why would I post
- abouta month ago an issue started.
**Only** after I left the machine on, and it has been idle about 30
minutes it locks up.
The screen has gone blank, and hitting a key will bring it back on,
but all I can do is
move the mouse pointer. No keys do anything, no ctrl-alt-delete,
clicking the mouse
has no response, all I can do is move the pointer.
If fact it's so locked up so the clock in the taskbar stops at the
point that it locked up.
I tried turning off UAC, as I had read in another post, but that has
not made any difference.
On 10/10 there were some Microsoft updates installed, but other than
that I have not installed
anything different - this is the only one that looks OS related:
Security Update for Windows Vista (KB933729)
Can have outlook and whatever running, or nothing running; same
situation.
I would really rather not re-install at this point. I am downloading
Knoppix (linux on a disc)
just to confirm it is not a hardware issue, which I do not believe it
is.
Any ideas out there ???
The laptop does not lock up all day, as long as I do not have that 30
minute idle time (maybe it's the boss trying to get me to skip lunch
and meetings
TIA,
- Knaf