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Laptop turns itself off
Name: Tomg44 Date: July 17, 2005 at 04:09:27 Pacific OS: WinXP Home Edition CPU/Ram: P4 Celeron
Comment:
Appears to be starting up normally. desktop appears, cursor moves, no messages to suggest a problem. Appears to be addressing the hard drive for another 6 minutes. Screen then goes black and it turns itself off. There are no message of any sort at any point in the process.
Name: blackbill Date: July 17, 2005 at 06:31:50 Pacific
Reply:
Usually when a laptop shuts down for no apparent reason, it's because it's running on low battery.
Check your power supply and make sure it's pumping out the proper voltage. Check the plug both on the power supply and on the laptop for secure connection
Take the battery pack out and see if the machine runs on the power supply alone while putting heavy demand on the cpu.
also check you power option settings and make sure they are correct.
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Response Number 2
Name: Tomg44 Date: July 18, 2005 at 03:06:51 Pacific
Reply:
Good call Blackbill. Started perfectly without the battery Many thanks TG
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