T60 Thinkpad overheating

Am trying to order a fan for my laptop - it's 3 years old - was very expensive.....T60 model......all of a sudden it's overheating and shutting down......I have repeatedly called the 800 numbers for IBM in the U.S. and have gotten a runaround for days now......all I want to do is order a fan for my computer.....one 800 number won't give out part numbers any more -as of 3 weeks ago ...told me to use the Lenovo website.....did that- impossible to navigate to find a FAN ........the other 800 number (sales)you get someone in the phillipines or somewhere - and they say they don't know the numbers of parts - and when I gave him a part number - and asked him if that was the correct number for a fan - he said he had no idea......and we got disconnected.....
Am totally frustrated......it seems as if they want you to buy a new computer...making it very difficult to find parts...
FYI - I took this problem first to a reputable IBM dealer in NYC and they told me they would fix it - but I would have to order the part - it would be "easier".....
So - HELP!!! please - if someone knows the fan number for an IBM T60......it's the part in the upper left of the motherboard.
thanks

blindump wrote:
I had the same problem with my 3 y/o T61. Take a bottle of compressed air and give *both* fan areas a good blow. They are located on the side and back of your laptop. This did the trick for me.
what you are doing is only a temporary fix, if you want to clean the fan assembly properly you would need to take off the palmrest and keyboard and blow out the dust from inside to outside. What you are doing is just loosening the dusts and blowing it back to the innards of the laptop, if the dusts settles on your electronics and water condenses on it (due to rapid temperature change in a humid environment, i.e. going from un-airconditioned area to an air conditioned), then it may cause a short circuit, which is something you don't want.
So if you want to clean the laptop properly, you should open the laptop up and clean the dusts off the laptop motherboard and use the compressed air to loosen any dusts, and use a microfibre or cotton tips to clean the dusts off the fan blades. This will ensure that laptop will maximise its service life, and you won't experience any electronics problem as it ages.
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Hi and welcome to the forum!
So technically speaking it turns on and goes to Windows startup where it gives you an option to press Ctrl-ALt-Del? I think your T60 is in need of re-installation of Windows, but try repair option from the Windows disc first (depending on the version of Windows you on it).
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Have a couple of T60 thinkpads which experience the same problem sporadically.
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What am I missing? (overheating, fans, tpfancontrol)

Situation:
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Hi.
What are the 7-digit type/model numbers from the back of each laptop? This will aid further discussion and the referencing of part numbers.
If the fan in "T60-B" is making any abnormal noise it means it may not be giving optimal performance. It could probably still use a fresh cleaning and lubrication even if you don't see any obvious buildup of dust or particles. In addition, the thermal paste (a.k.a. thermal compound) between the heatsink and CPU may need to be refreshed. The thermal compound aids in heat dissipation. Use a good quality product such as Arctic Silver 5, which always works great for me.
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Good day everyone:
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It doesn't matter in your particular case, either of them will work fine.
The latter one was for later machines that ran hotter, and has better cooling properties than the original one.
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T60 Wireless drops out randomly

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We have several Lenovo T60 Thinkpads in our company. Every now and then the wireless disconnects and users are limited to work locally. As we have all our documents on a server that is very annoying to our users.
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have you tried moving the hub as far from the pc as possible in case there is interference from the pc/power supply.
have you tried a new filter and if possible a different router - even borrowed just to try it. it is not impossible that there is a problem with the hub but need to try other things first
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Lennovo T60

Hi i have a lennovo T60 thinkpad, after a faulty backlight in my last screen i bought a used screen from a reputable dealer on ebay and replaced the screen which works well for a few hours then surprise surprise blacks out and fades so i have to look really closely in the light to see it, if i close the lid and re-open it springs back to life. It also has a pink ting down at the bottom left hand side of the screen. I dont want to go to the expense of having the screen removed and a new one in it's place if it isnt the screen. So far it has only done this whilst plugged into the mains supply and not while running on battery. The person i purchased the screen from has suggested it needs a little paste on the processor and graphics but i am not fully convinced. I really want my laptop to work as it's a great machine but i cant afford to throw endless money at solving the issue, any help please?
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Welcome to the froum!
That screen has a failing backlight - pinkish hue is a dead giveaway that NO OTHER defect produces - so return it ASAP and get a refund from the "reputable seller".
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Please help me to resolve this problem on my 3+ year T60 ThinkPad.
Suddently, my laptop couldn't reach any internet, either local area connection or wireless connection.
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I have a lenovo T60 thinkpad and last evening my batter suddenly stopped charging.
Now the only way I can work is when its plugged in.
When I look at the power meter, the battery charge shows up to be 0%.
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I am now sure its a problem with the battery. I replaced the battery with another battery that was available at work and it works fine. Let me see if I am still covered under warranty for the old battery.

T60 - Standby problems with long in activity

Hi All,
Hopfully someone can point me in the right direction with a issue i'm having with one of the T60 Thinkpads.
Here's the run down:
We brought 3 T60's (type 6369-A56) last december (online web sale). 1 of the three is displaying problems when dealing with standby mode. If the laptop goes into standby mode for longer than anywhere between 30mins to 1hr the laptop doesn't resume from standby when you either open the lid of the laptop or use the Fn function key. When either action is taken to bring the laptop out of standby mode the cresent moon LED remains lit, the HDD LED lights up for a breif second and then turns off, the power indicator turns on and say's solid, the screen remains blank at all times. When this happens you can hear/feel the HDD spinning up and doing something and you can also hear the processor fan spin into action as if it were coming out of standby. Having mains power doesn't seem to make a difference with this problem.
I've already spoken to Lenovo support RE this matter and they believe it is a software related problem. I've done some further testing to try and determine that, this is what I've done...
I took a Norton Ghost image of one of the 2 working T60's HDD's (standby works perfectly on the other two laptops) and used that Image to ghost the HDD in the faulty T60, this gave me two Identical laptops (hardware and software). The power scheme for the laptop is as follows, Turn off Display @ 5mins, go into Suspend Mode @ 15mins. I left both laptops alone at exactly 9:05, 5mins later the screens when blank, @ 15mins later both went into standby mode. 45mins after standby mode had kicked in I came back to both laptops and used the Fn key to resume the laptops(at the same time) and the faulty T60 didn't come back from standby and the same symptons as mentioned eariler happened.
After that happen I decied to see what would happen if I switched the HDD's between the laptops (hdd from faulty laptop into the working laptop, hdd from working laptop into faulty laptop). After switching the HDD's over I ran the same tests as above. Again 45mins after standby mode had been active I used the Fn key to resume from standby and the laptop with the hdd from the faulty laptop worked straight off the batt, however the hdd from the working laptop in the faulty laptop displayed the same problems as mentioned above, thus ruling out the software as the cause of the problem.
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Thanks Cedric,
At the time the tests were done, both were using battery power (levels were as close as ai could get them at the time, but they were around the 85% mark when the first test was carried out), however as mentioned in my OP the problem is still there when using Mains or Battery power.
Hibernation is disabled on both laptops (it was disabled before I created the Ghost HDD Image, I have checked that both still have it disabled)
Just to satisfy your curiosity, the faulty T60 already had the latest BIOS updates installed as apart of some intital testing that I had performed (its running System BIOS version 7IET32WW), however the working laptop was running the previous version. I've since updated that system and both are now running the same version.
Since upgrading the BIOS so that they both match, I decided to Load BIOS defaults (F9) with only 1 change (that change is to the SATA Mode from AHCI to Compatibility) to both machines.
I ran the same tests as before, but this time using mains power and the problem is still present on the original laptop displaying the symptoms. There also seems to be a second issue which is related to this problem, if i shut the laptop down and try to reboot 9 out of 10 times i get the following message:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
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Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair
No sometimes I can restart the machine again and it will boot into WindowsXP, however most times I cannot. And a repair will resolve the issue but not always.
In regards to any BIOS settings, there aint that many options in the bios that deal with power management (nothing that I can see that deal with standby mode), whats the problem you've seen with the hibernate function?
Cheers
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T60: Windows 8 hangs on BIOS thermal setting!

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After setting things up, I went back into the BIOS to change the drive back to SATA. While there I also changed the thermal setting (which controls the fan) from High Performance to Balanced.
Subsequently Win8 hung and would not load. It tried to repair itself but went nowhere. So I went back into the BIOS and undid those two changes, and voila Win8 was back.
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Hey,
Same here. I installed Win 8 on my T60... well, I spent 2 hours trying to install Win 8, and 3 days trying to desperately downshift to XP, also without success, but that's beside the point. I have been experiencing a really difficult time, particularly during a "warm" reboot. Cold reboots are fine. W8 works great, except for when it unexpectedly shuts down. Originally I was thinking I had a hd problem, but after realizing that startup was fine on cold reboots, I installed Core Temp to see what temp range I was operating in.
Wow! I have been using CoreTemp on my T60 with XP for about a year, and I've never seen such swings in temperature. It can be 56degrees one second and 88degrees just a few seconds later. I'm in a warm climate, but still, the temperature swings are huge. The fan is working constantly, but keeping the system in the 50-60 range as long as I'm not executing any programs. If I run one program too many and push the temp past 89degrees, I'm cooked, laptop shuts down and I have to wait for it to cool off. That can't be good for system life.
I just replaced my original noisy fan (after 6 years!), so the fan is working perfectly. I regularly ran in the 80s on my old settings with no shutdown problems, so this must be specific to W8. I will try to change BIOS for my fan to High Performance. Hopefully that will resolve the issue. I need this machine to work another 9 months minimum, for a total system life of 7 years. Hang in there baby!
If this keeps happening I may have to go back to XP, or I'll try W7. At least now I know that as long as I keep an eye on the temp the system won't break down on me.

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