Ok, I am continuously experimenting with the problem and have almost concluded that it is a heating issue. I have kept the laptop in a upright position (the bottom vents completely open) without running any heavy processes like videos and it has been running for more than an hour now, the longest it has run in the past few days. The temperature remains around 36 - 37 C. On running any videos in that upright position the temperature rises to 40 - 42 C. Even if I keep it on the level surface, the temperature still rises because of closing of the vents.
I drilled in to the logs and found something which might give a hint to the problem. Everytime just before freezing, there's a message: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec On googling a bit, I found that hpet is some kind of timer chip by Intel and Microsoft and we can actually enable or disable it. Can anyone throw some more light on this hpet? -- Tanay Mathpal Assistant Systems Engineer Tata Consultancy Services Chennai http://twitter.com/tanamania -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
