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    T61 New Strange Behavior on Lid Open

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ra990, May 28, 2008.

  1. ra990

    ra990 Notebook Consultant

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    I have started to notice something new happening on my T61 recently. When I open the lid of my notebook after an extended period of time (1+ hour), Windows XP will initiate the shutdown sequence and start closing everything including itself.

    I don't get it. I have my battery manager set to do nothing when I close the lid, and there is no action I can specify for lid open anyway. Why would Windows decide to shut down when I open the lid? This was not happening until recently and I can't recall making any major change to anything.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    RA
     
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  2. proxima_centauri

    proxima_centauri Notebook Consultant

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    This happened to me once. I woke up my T61p from sleep, and I got some sort of "System shutdown initiated by Authority/System" message and a countdown. Some preliminary research indicated it might be a virus, but I did a full virus scan and nothing showed up, did a windows update with the malicious tool removal, and it never happened since. So either it was completely random or the malicious tool got rid of some virus.
     
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  3. Axure

    Axure Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've seen that before on a desktop, although in that case the system would always eventually shutdown itself and not long after start. In that case that was a virus (sasser, if I recall correctly).
     
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    Assuming you installed it, maybe it's an SP3 "feature" ?
     
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    Does the Event Viewer give any hints as to what is happening?
     
    ssnseawolf, May 28, 2008
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