On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Ron Young wrote:
I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop that seems to have just given up the
ghost. I was hoping to use it for my first slackware installation. Since I
have experienced some history with this machine getting hung out there in the
ether between suspend and hibernate I thought I could remove the power and
just wait a bit and it would just boot up again. NOT!
Now the laptop continuously powers on then resets before the screen lights up
and even with the lid closed! I have to remove the battery and unplug the
external power to get it to stop this cycling.
Ideas? Anyone need an anchor for a two man fishing boat?
Thinkpads have similar bizarre symptoms when their CMOS
battery dies. Batteries Plus had mine. They're about the
size of a quarter.
Joe
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