Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 07:16:31 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 110 questions
At 01:30 PM 4/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 22:24:21 +0100 >From: Zoltan Gyorgypal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Libretto 110 questions > >Hi guys, > >I'm new to this list, so first of all greetings to everyone from Hungary. Welcome! The usual initiation rite applies ... *gets out the mini skirt, hairy lightbulb and 'Unsubscribble' tattoo template* ;-) >(1) What is better for the Libretto in terms of machine/battery life span >when it is not used and shut down (e. g. overnight): if I leave the AC >connected (two LEDS lighting), or if I isolate it from all current (no LED >lights)? Well if the libby's battery isn't fully charged I leave it overnight on charge, if I think I'll be using the libby the next day but the battery is fully charged I take the battery out but leave it plugged in (I use it for some bedside music and set a program to turn itself off after an hour or so so it still needs power), if the battery hasn't been discharged for a while I leave the battery in, unplug it then run it overnight playing music until the battery dies then charge it up the next night (I had 2 batteries so I could use the other during the day). You probably only need to cycle the battery once every few months, I've probably been doing it more than I really need to. >(2) There are 2-3 pinkish-colored vertical pixel columns on the left edge of >the screen. Is this a permanent fault of the screen (the machine is 4 years >old), or something can be done with it? Its probably permanent unfortunately ... LCDs do that sorta thing. >(3) The machine _sometimes_ locks up when coming back from hibernation. The >screen remains black with the cursor blinking in the left upper quarter of >the screen. The only way to come out of this is to push the reset button. >This only happens sometimes, with no obvious reason. Is there any experience >with this? (I realize from recent posts that suspend/hibernate is a >"less-than-obvious" feature of the Librettos.) Well the only time I've ever had that on my L100 is when there was a major hardware change (such as hibernating, undocking then unhibernating). I do find that sometimes it takes longer to come out of hibernation/suspend than others (sometimes it wakes up in 10 seconds, other times it wakes up in a minute or so). I find sometimes bashing the 'ctrl' key (or any other key as long as the program that was open doesn't mind) hurries things up but that might just be co-incidence ... hehe >(4) My machine has BIOS 7.30, and I downloaded the 8.10 version. Is it >worthwhile to replace it? Anything particular to watch out when doing a BIOS >update? Can I save/restore the previous one in case something fails? Can it >be done safely on a fully installed machine, or better on a virgin one? I'd say replace it anyway. If you read the readme files you'll find that in fact even if you corrupt the BIOS flash, Toshiba is kind enough to give you a way to bypass the bad flash by booting and holding down F12 with the flash disk in the FDD. I'm guessing the F12 routine is hard coded into the BIOS chip in a location that can't be reflashed. Pretty fail-safe really ... >(5) Is there an Email address where Toshiba service engineers would answer >tech questions? (Guarantee is over.) Umm ... you could try the standard email addresses on the Toshiba website but no guarantees ... >Last words: I'm not a native English speaker, and one of my favorite >expressions is the "hairy lightbulb" - I adore it like the Libretto! :-) Hehe add 'unsubscribble' to that ... - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
