On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:22:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have more something of a hardware problem. My laptop works PERFECTLY. > (Dell Latitude XPi P133ST) It runs Woody for some days now, which is a nice > thing too. But yesterday the thing started to do strange things. It turns > itself off and can't be switched on again. When I try to switch the thing > on, the power and two battery LEDs blink (and also the keyboard LEDs IIRC) > but nothing else happens. But when I remove the cover etc and try again, the > thing works like nothing happened... Sounds like some sort of electricity > failure, but that doesn't explain the blinking LEDs. At least not to me. > (They don't blink when there is no battery/AC..) > > Anyone else knows this weird behaviour? :-/
My Dell I3700 started doing something similar a couple of months ago -
symptoms included:
- sudden unexplained freezes - sometimes even while in the BIOS setup
at boot (!)
- often failure to boot - but keyboard leds were trying to communicate
*something*.
I believe it was something to do with the screen, as I could
*consistently* get it to crash/hang/reset by attempting to shut the lid
- just moving it a few mm seemed to have a nasty effect. Running with
the lid completely open seemed to help somewhat :-( Dell wanted 200 UKP
just to do a diagnostic (past warranty), and repeatedly pointed out to
no avail that Linux was not supported, while I was trying to explain
about the hardware problems...
I never got a solution (apart from a brand-new laptop from my company),
but I'm going to send it in to a local guy for attempted repairs.
Be sure that you have backups - sounds like your hardware is going
bad...
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>
> Wilmer van der Gaast.
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