I don't think that I will try this at home.
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 07:59 -0400, Cranky Frankie wrote: > When last I reported about my Acer Aspire One netbook that had had the > DC input jack repaired, it was running OK on AC but would still > randomly shut down when running on either the original 6 cell battery > or a newer 9 cell battery (with both batteries showing up as fully > charged in the OS). I'd tried flashing the bios, reinstalling the OS, > and had it to Liberteks in Albany twice. Having it run without > problems on AC was fine but it is a netbook after all so it should be > portable. > > I was ready to just get rid of it when I decided to bring it back to > Liberteks one more time. Well, now it finally appears they fixed it - > it now, finally, runs on the battery and on AC without shutting down > randomly. The best part is how they fixed it: they claim they removed > the motherboard and baked it in an oven! The only thing I can imagine > is they wanted to reheat any cold solder joints, but wouldn't any heat > high enough to melt solder destroy the components on the board? Unless > maybe cold solder joints don't have to be reheated "all the way?" I > don't know what it was, I've never heard of doing this before, but > apparently it works. > > I really, really hope the damn thing just works now. > -- Mark Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra Jul 6 - Jul 2011
