Hello. I just bought a used Thinkpad T60 from a well-rated seller on Ebay, and in the two weeks since I got it it's totally frozen up on me multiple times. The screen totally freezes, CTRL ALT DELETE doesn't do anything, hitting the power button doesn't do anything, I have to unplug the computer to restart it. (The old battery the laptop came with is dead, so it loses power the second it's unplugged.) There have also been various incidents where the cursor seems to freeze for 5-10 seconds or so, but then gets over it.
It's happened at random times, when I'm online, when I'm offline editing videos, once even during shutdown. The Ebay seller insists he had no problems with it, and like I said he has very positive ratings. I'm guessing I screwed up the registry somehow trying to get rid of some of the programs that were pre-installed on this machine. I don't need Itunes and Realmedia and other things that eat a lot of memory, but uninstalling them may have screwed me up. In at least one case I uninstalled something and when I rebooted the computer it had obvious caused a problem, I was getting pop-ups about dlls and stuff like that. I did a system restore and fixed that problem, but the machine is obviously still having bugs.
One possible clue to what's happening here... Yesterday my laptop froze up again, and when I rebooted it I looked at the SYSTEM in the event viewer and saw two errors, both right around the time the computer crashed. The first said that it was EVENT ID 7026, and had this message: "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: IBMTPCHK" Then over the next couple of seconds there were 12 "information" messages (not errors) culminating with a message that Windows Search Service had entered a stopped state. That was followed by the second error, event ID 7024, saying: "The Windows Search service terminated with service-specific error 2147749155 (0x80040D23)." Both errors (and all of the "info" messages) listed their source as Service Control Manager.
I've tried multiple system restores, but I don't have any restore points to a time before this problem started. I've run Ccleaner, I've run Avast, Malwarebytes, Security Essentials and chkdsk, I downloaded and ran various programs to examine the registry, to look at the computer's heat, to test the RAM. Everything comes back normal, I get rid of viruses, the hardware seems fine, etc... And then my computer freezes up again. This machine has two gigs of memory, but apparently about half of it is already taken up with these programs I don't need or want, but can't seem to get rid of without causing more problems!
I do not have much money to spend and I'm really hoping I can salvage this thing. (And no, the seller won't accept returns. I took his good seller rating as a sign he wouldn't knowingly sell a lemon.)
I'm running XP professional, Service Pack 3, on a 32-bit system. I am not super tech-savvy, but I can usually solve my own problems... And this time I'm just stumped.
I already posted about this another forum, and the people there had me run Speccy and Minitoolbox but so far I haven't heard back from anybody about what's going on. Here's the Speccy url it produced:
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/BiQgWefvXYVUKm7gfqSVA2p
I can also post the Minitoolbox results if anybody wants to see them, but they're really long so I'll hold off for now.
It's happened at random times, when I'm online, when I'm offline editing videos, once even during shutdown. The Ebay seller insists he had no problems with it, and like I said he has very positive ratings. I'm guessing I screwed up the registry somehow trying to get rid of some of the programs that were pre-installed on this machine. I don't need Itunes and Realmedia and other things that eat a lot of memory, but uninstalling them may have screwed me up. In at least one case I uninstalled something and when I rebooted the computer it had obvious caused a problem, I was getting pop-ups about dlls and stuff like that. I did a system restore and fixed that problem, but the machine is obviously still having bugs.
One possible clue to what's happening here... Yesterday my laptop froze up again, and when I rebooted it I looked at the SYSTEM in the event viewer and saw two errors, both right around the time the computer crashed. The first said that it was EVENT ID 7026, and had this message: "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: IBMTPCHK" Then over the next couple of seconds there were 12 "information" messages (not errors) culminating with a message that Windows Search Service had entered a stopped state. That was followed by the second error, event ID 7024, saying: "The Windows Search service terminated with service-specific error 2147749155 (0x80040D23)." Both errors (and all of the "info" messages) listed their source as Service Control Manager.
I've tried multiple system restores, but I don't have any restore points to a time before this problem started. I've run Ccleaner, I've run Avast, Malwarebytes, Security Essentials and chkdsk, I downloaded and ran various programs to examine the registry, to look at the computer's heat, to test the RAM. Everything comes back normal, I get rid of viruses, the hardware seems fine, etc... And then my computer freezes up again. This machine has two gigs of memory, but apparently about half of it is already taken up with these programs I don't need or want, but can't seem to get rid of without causing more problems!
I do not have much money to spend and I'm really hoping I can salvage this thing. (And no, the seller won't accept returns. I took his good seller rating as a sign he wouldn't knowingly sell a lemon.)
I'm running XP professional, Service Pack 3, on a 32-bit system. I am not super tech-savvy, but I can usually solve my own problems... And this time I'm just stumped.
I already posted about this another forum, and the people there had me run Speccy and Minitoolbox but so far I haven't heard back from anybody about what's going on. Here's the Speccy url it produced:
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/BiQgWefvXYVUKm7gfqSVA2p
I can also post the Minitoolbox results if anybody wants to see them, but they're really long so I'll hold off for now.
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