Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:09:59 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70CT shuts down closing lid? More problems?
>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>But just last night, after setting the hibernation mode, I closed the lid
>>to save the monitor, and then just picked it up again slowly to see how
>>far up it would go before the lid switch kicked in the monitor.
>
>The easy way to test this is just to press the switch with a pencil or
>similar...
Heh... well I wanted to confirm that the lid tab was actually hitting the
switch activater... plus it's justfun seeing devices do there thing ;-P
>>Instead of turning on the monitor, the system did a hard shut down!
>
>I'd be tempted to blame windows <grin> but then I blame it for most
>things...
I'd almost want to put money on it!
>>So it seems there's something else buggy about the system, maybe because
>>of that little dent in the back left corner by the replicator screw holes.
>>That's right about where that lid switch is located... but I can't think
>>what connection there may be there.
>
>If the system behaves as expected when you tickle the switch, but not when
>you physically close the lid, it suggests some mechanical movement that the
>greater forces from the hinge are causing. If the machine has been bounced,
>there could be all sorts of invisible cracks etc - though around that end
>of the machine, I'd expect the RAM to be affected as it seems very
>vulnerable -and that usually causes either failure to boot or intermittent
>hard crashing.
I'll try flexing the case a bit while I'm tapping... and then maybe opening
it up again and having a look around through a magnifier... but as lazy as I
am... this will probably only after the next time, if there is a next time.
>in the OTHERS section:
>
>o Power-up Mode: this should really be called power *down* mode.
> - Hibernation: save the ram and screen contents to hard disk
<snip>
Very informative... I doubt this stuff didn't come from the Libretto manual.
Did you write this out at one point Neil... or just add the 'nailed'
comments. ;-P
Matt
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