Computer shuts down on its own

[1999NBK]

What does your laptop do in bios mode? What I mean is, boot to bios and observe temps while sitting there. Most bios's have a "PC Health" or monitoring section where you can observe temps. Mine also has fan speed controls. If the laptop heats up while sitting on the bios screen, it's not your OS causing the problem.

ok i went to bios, and the fan worked!!! it like pulsated, so its the OS, and there was no Health thing

[SteveRiley]

It may be time to enlist the aid of Google, then. Perhaps there's something architecturally different about your ThinkPad compared to most other machines?

[oshunluvr]

OK, so it's an ACPI problem most likely. Odd (as Steve pointed out) that no other users of that lappy have reported the problem - at least as far as I searched.

I had a similar problem quite awhile ago that solved itself with a kernel update.

I propose you try other distros and/or kernel versions to see if one or the other makes the fan work. Also, search kernel boot options regarding ACPI and our laptop model. You may find a fix out there.

[1999NBK]

OK, so it's an ACPI problem most likely. Odd (as Steve pointed out) that no other users of that lappy have reported the problem - at least as far as I searched.

I had a similar problem quite awhile ago that solved itself with a kernel update.

I propose you try other distros and/or kernel versions to see if one or the other makes the fan work. Also, search kernel boot options regarding ACPI and our laptop model. You may find a fix out there.

Ok, I will do that, I'll try other distros

[1999NBK]

Ok, I will do that, I'll try other distros

any recommendations?

[oshunluvr]

I would try Ubuntu first - this would eliminate KDE as the source of the problem. Then try Gparted. It's very stripped down and useful in the future to have handy.

[GreyGeek]

Allow me to recommend KWheezy 1.5.

[1999NBK]

I would try Ubuntu first - this would eliminate KDE as the source of the problem. Then try Gparted. It's very stripped down and useful in the future to have handy.

just did that, I'll see in a sec

[1999NBK]

Allow me to recommend KWheezy 1.5.

if ubuntu won't work then I'll try that

[1999NBK]

ok I tried different distros, but nothing really helped, now I'm running 12.04

[1999NBK]

Hm...I'm still a bit curious about the fan.

What's the output of

cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

Let's also check a few other things. What's the output of

lsmod | grep think

sudo find / -iname 'fan'

e@x:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
status:         enabled
speed:          0
level:          auto
commands:       level <level> (<level> is 0-7, auto, disengaged, full-speed)
commands:       enable, disable
commands:       watchdog <timeout> (<timeout> is 0 (off), 1-120 (seconds))

and the second one

e@x:~$ lsmod | grep think
thinkpad_acpi          81819  0 
snd                    79041  18 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,thinkpad_acpi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
nvram                  14413  1 thinkpad_acpi

and

e@x:~$ sudo find / -iname 'fan'
/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
/sys/bus/acpi/drivers/fan

I noticed that now I'm getting different results, what does that mean?