Possible bad battery. What kind is it? The Smart portion of the battery could be passing incoherant information to the OS. Far out but not the first time.
On Wed January 1 2003 19:09, you wrote: > Hopefully there wont be too many angry members with this somewhat non-linux > question. I have tried Compaq and Googling but no cigar. > > I have a Compaq Presario 1700 with RH 8 and Win2k Pro. Mobile Pentium 933, > 256mb. Under Win2k, the laptop will occaisionally shut down, almost like in > sleep/suspend mode, and at random times. The power light is still on but it > will not "wake" or recover unless I reboot. Needless to say it is VERY > frustrating not to mention the lost data. I have disabled power management > everywhere I can find any settings, and updated any bios or mb drivers from > Compaq. > > This never happens when running Linux, so it would "appear" to be more > os/driver related than uniquely hardware alone. > > > ________________________________ > Open Enterprise Solutions > Linux & Open Solutions for Business > > Johnny Stork, BA > Calgary, AB > Canada > > http://www.openenterprise.ca
