On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: > A more interesting question is why the laptop is now working. The only > thing that I did to it was leave it unplugged it for a couple of hours.
Not unusual for a mis-behaving mechanical thingie to behave when you take it into the repair shop. Since your laptop screen worked after rebooting before this morning's failure, I suspect that it will keep failing intermittently until it dies. Now that you have a way to work with the machine if it does fail, you can use it until you get the vendor to repair it under warranty. Intermittent failures are frustrating when trying to identify the source so it can be fixed. A couple of months ago I had intermittent wisps of white smoke coming from under the engine compartment on my Pathfinder. Only on two successive Thursday evenings, and only on the outbound leg of a round trip. The following Wednesday there was sufficient smoke when I opened the hood to see that oil was leaking from the valve cover gasket onto the rear of the exhause manifold heat shield on one side of the engine. Now that I knew the source, I tighened the valve cover bolts slightly and made an appointment to have the gaskets replaced (on the driver's side the entire air intake system needs to be removed to access the exhause manifold; not a job for the casual mechanic.) After 23 years and 205,000 miles I am not surprised that they wore down and leaked. But, trying to figure out why only once a week, on the same weekday, was quite distracting. Glad you have it working. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
