CF29N, losing my mind.. Random freezes and bsod..

I'm soon to loose my mind, got a fairly nice treated Cf29 mk5.

It started by freezing up, and got extremely laggy, then the random shut downs and a occasionally white out of the screen.. Blue screen of death happens alot now.

First I tried was to remove and replace RAM, when that didn't do squat, I bought a new hdd. And now even during the installation of xp with original recovery discs it freezes up randomly and blanks out..

Bought this laptop hoping it would last, guess I was wrong.. It have not been roughly used at all by me. Mostly been stationary on a corner table in the workshop. Got about 6000hrs.

Could anybody help me sort this out?
I got a donor Cf29 with the 1.3ghz.

 

Overheating, I think.
You have to disassemble this laptop and check if CPU has a contact with it's radiator.

 

I've had to use a digital camera to capture the info from a bsod screen because it was only there for a split-second. I expect there's a better way but I don't know it.
I also don't know enough always to understand the info on the bsod or in the event log for myself but googling the results has helped me to diagnose problems in the past.
There are people here who don't need google though
Good luck with it, TB's definitely are more reliable than others, but nothing's 100% is it?

 

I think BaRRmaley might be onto something. Remove your battery, all drives and then your bottom plate. Look for a brown spot on your CPU pad. They shrink sometimes. You can replace it, try to gently push it back into the area it needs to be and/or add a small amount of CPU silver or ceramic paste to the pad.

Other than that.... Could be the wifi card... I doubt it... But it could be.

 

Barrmalley, could it be so simple as overheated?

The bsods are quite random. And sometimes it will not even get past bios when restarted..

 

did you try it with no memory installed....just the onboard memory ? I would pull out the cd-rom, wifi and memory and see what happens.

 

Tried with only the inboard memory. Have not tried without the cdrom and wifi.

 

look for a program cputhermometer and or any other program that will let you monitor the temps you're running. if the heat dissipation pad is dry, cracked or not all there your temps will force the cpu to throttle down and or just shut down. there are heat pad materials like from frozen cpu you can purchase to replace or as one guy says just smoosh it back together and put some of the artic silver ceramic to get it cooling right. I'm sure you know these cf-29's don't have a fan( other that us guys) that cool it. it is heat sinked to the base thru a cooling fork arrangement that works well. hopefully this is all there is to the problem. good luck..Driller

 

Thanks, will do that.

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To quickly determine if a problem is hardware or software I recommend a Ubuntu Install CD. Do not install it but run the Operation System from the disk. This will bypass your installed OS and tell you real quick if the problem is hardware or software. The Ubuntu Install CD is an item that is nice for any Tech's toolbox, no matter if they like Linux or not!

 

Overheating for sure. Random slowdowns would be the CPU throttling. Does the bottom get warm at all? I bought the best thermal pads from frozen CPU, the pink ones, and don't get the throttling issue any more, but the base does get quite warm.

 

I have one question. Would you happened pluging in a PCMCIA card into it? I ask coz I have one customer that almost the same symptom that you are in now. The guy purchased the custom toughbook from me almost a year ago when it happened. I told him to send it back to me to check it out eventhough it is way way beyond the warranty but as customer. I'll alway do the best I can do. Unfortunately, he didn't tell me that he is plugging some PCMCIA card into it. When I received it and check it all out and yes! it gives BSOD after a while. I even test with a harddrive from my known good system and it do the same thing. You know what I found out? There are multiple pin shorted on the PCMCIA port and it pushes backward and the base plastic connector is crack and broken.

Well! as i said I do my best to my customer. I've changed the whole mbo. with out a charged. But you know what after a week! he bought another one from me for his friend as he is saying I'll better buy from you again rather than to the unknown.


Sorry! guys If I am making drama here,


ohlip

 

you truly are a noble man.. as many of the gurus here..Driller