{"id":4277,"date":"2020-01-29T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2020-10-09T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:49:18","slug":"thinkpad-x230-suddenly-turns-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/thinkpad-x230-suddenly-turns-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Thinkpad X230 suddenly turns off"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav class=\"tinytoc tiny_toc\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#h0\">Check and do first<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#h1\">Fix HDD\/SSD connection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#h2\">Supplement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n\n\r\n<body><p>Does your Thinkpad X230 suddenly turn off without any direct reason? It is not always a broken main board.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This problem seems to be very common for this model when you google this issue. I bought a used but refurbished X230 and ran into this problem a couple month after purchasing.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared sometimes rarely, sometimes a couple times a day independently whether it ran on battery or power supply. But it never turned off when it was docked in the docking station on my desk. It mostly appeared when I had it on my knees and then put it on the desk. After a couple seconds it turned off, not immediately.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on Windows as on GNU\/Linux. So it could not be a driver problem.<\/p>\n<p>I could not reproduce this error every time. Sometimes it turned off, most of the time it worked.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h0\">Check and do first<\/h3>\n<p>One reason for a sudden turn-off can be an <strong>overheated processor<\/strong>. The BIOS turns of the machine when the temperature of the processor is far more than 95\u00b0C. I had this problem with a former Thinkpad T410. Cleaning the cooling fan and renewing the thermal grease solved this problem. Sometimes just cleaning the fan is sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>A decent guidance for this task can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfixguide.com\/manual\/lenovo-thinkpad-x230-disassembly-clean-cooling-fan-remove-keyboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">myfixguide.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it <em>only<\/em> appears in <strong>battery<\/strong> mode check and change your battery.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing of the above helped it is probably the main board or more likely the hard drive or SSD connection. Later another issue was the deal maker: the cable connections. Refer chapter \u201cSupplement\u201d for details.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h1\">Fix HDD\/SSD connection<\/h3>\n<p>In a German forum post the user \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkpad-forum.de\/threads\/195366-X230-geht-unregelm%C3%A4%C3%9Fig-(aber-h%C3%A4ufig)-einfach-aus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gestern<\/a>\u201d pointed me to the hard drive SATA connection. I looked deeper into it. The HDD, in my case a SSD, was mounted without a caddy directly in the HDD-slot. So it had some minor play. I bought a appropriate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/gp\/product\/B00JO779DG\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">caddy<\/a> and installed it but the problem was not gone. It still turned of from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the SSD better in the slot, you need insulating tape, a scissors and a cross-head screwdriver:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_1-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-K63acFFo\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4376\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_1-480x280.jpg\" alt=\"Zubeh\u00f6r\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I removed the caddy, just mounted the screws on the side of the SSD to reduce horizontal play. In order to pull it out of the slot again later, I put a flap made from insulating tape on the front of the SSD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-K63acFFo\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4375\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_2-480x280.jpg\" alt=\"SSD mit Lasche\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I installed the naked SSD. After I cut off some pieces of insulating tape with the length of the approximate HDD-slot width and put 4-6 layers on top of each other. How many depends on the thickness of your tape. I pushed this thick strip crosswise under the built-in drive and clamped it therewith into the slot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-K63acFFo\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4377\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_3-480x280.jpg\" alt=\"SSD klemmen\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-K63acFFo\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4378\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/x230_4-480x280.jpg\" alt=\"Geklemmte SSD im Schcht\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has worked till now.<\/p>\n<p>There is maybe a reason that the refurbisher did not use a caddy for the SSD installation.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h2\">Supplement<\/h3>\n<p>The problem occur again after 2-3 weeks. I diassembled the whole notebook computer, except the display, and due to this I unplugged all internal cable conections and plugged them back in. You find illustrated help at <a href=\"https:\/\/de.ifixit.com\/Device\/Lenovo_Thinkpad_x230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ifixit.com<\/a>. I installed the SSD as described above. Since half a year the problem is gone now.<\/p><\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff shariff-align-left shariff-widget-align-left\" data-services=\"facebook\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/thinkpad-x230-suddenly-turns-off.html\" data-timestamp=\"1602283758\" data-backendurl=\"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/shariff\/v1\/share_counts?\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-round orientation-horizontal buttonsize-small\"><li class=\"shariff-button facebook shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#4273c8;border-radius:50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.hani-ibrahim.de%2Fen%2Fthinkpad-x230-suddenly-turns-off.html\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" role=\"button\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\";border-radius:50%; background-color:#3b5998; color:#fff\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"shariff-icon\" style=\"\"><svg width=\"32px\" height=\"20px\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 18 32\"><path fill=\"#3b5998\" d=\"M17.1 0.2v4.7h-2.8q-1.5 0-2.1 0.6t-0.5 1.9v3.4h5.2l-0.7 5.3h-4.5v13.6h-5.5v-13.6h-4.5v-5.3h4.5v-3.9q0-3.3 1.9-5.2t5-1.8q2.6 0 4.1 0.2z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span data-service=\"facebook\" style=\"color:#3b5998\" class=\"shariff-count shariff-hidezero\"><\/span>&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"shariff-button twitter shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#595959;border-radius:50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.hani-ibrahim.de%2Fen%2Fthinkpad-x230-suddenly-turns-off.html&text=Thinkpad%20X230%20suddenly%20turns%20off\" title=\"Share on X\" aria-label=\"Share on X\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\";border-radius:50%; 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