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After crashes every 2 minutes, I think I have found a solution - at least now I haven't had any crashes for 8 hours straight and I have had no problem with heavy typing or moving the machine. It still is necessary - sometimes - to start-up with the 6.7.Y. My problem was avoiding a frozen machine.

I reduced the power drain to a minimum.

Power scheme is set now for maximum battery.
Video card is set for 200/175
And perhaps most critical I set the color depth for 16 instead of 32.

I was premature in a solution. My machine just crashed again. I'll just have to install the new video card.

Sorry

I found that if I simply hold it down for 5 seconds with steady pressure it will always start up.

My x1000 is four years old. Two weeks ago it developed the dreaded video card failure. Machine froze after screen pixilating. The famous 6, 7 y treatment worked temporarily. A technician tried for two days putting pressure on the card to keep the fix permanent - but failed. I ended up buying a new card - which I haven't received yet.

However while I was waiting for the new card to arrive I realized that the machine was freezing even though I could stop the pixilation by pushing the keys. In other words the video card was sending out a signal that irreversibly locked up the machine.

I found a free program Shutdown XP on download.com which promised to prevent lockups. [It also requires another program - Neobooks to provide a critical file] After installing Shutdown XP  the computer has not locked up once. Even though prior to that it would lock up when typing or moving the machine. I simply have not been able to get the machine to freeze. In other words I have not had to use the program to recover from lockup because the machine has stopped locking up.