You may remember I went through a lot of gyrations to get my Acer Aspire One netbook to stop randomly shutting down. After OS reinstalls, BIOS updates, etc., it became stable when running on a/c, but then it started shutting down randomly even in that mode, so I finally gave up and brought it back to Liberteks in Albany (they'd repaired the d/c input jack that my daughter had messed up).
The point was I couldn't use it the way it was and was about to throw it out. I certainly didn't want to throw more money at it. Well, Liberteks came though. They opened it up and found one diode that had been touching another diode, with a brown spot on it. They replaced the diode, then changed the hibernate settings in both OSs so that it never turns off, no matter what mode it's in, a/c or d/c. They claim after this they had it running for 2 days straight in XP and 2 days in Ubuntu, and it never shut down either time. Plus they didn't charge me, either. Big thanks to Liberteks for coming through. The takeaway here is that sometimes it's is a hardware issue. I myself and capable of removing and resoldering a diode, but I didn't want to take apart something so tightly packed like a netbook, for fear of not being able to get it back together. PS. Last year we had an Arduino session at one of the meetings, but I couldn't make it. Any chance of a repeat this year? I'm just getting into it now and it's great fun, the perfect mix of hardware and software fun. It's a great topic. -- Frank L. "Cranky Frankie" Palmeri, Risible Riding Raconteur & Writer “The blues is my business, and business is good.” - Etta James _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra
