Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:07:10 -0500 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suitability of Sony VAIO laptop for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20041112000710.GU264@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <200411111737.iABHbpFp014244@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <200411111737.iABHbpFp014244@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:37:51AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > Last Saturday, my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 5000e) apparently stopped > working for the last time. (Ugly mode of failure -- won't stay powered > up (even via AC adaptor) to complete a boot sequence; usually doesn't > even get as far as illuminating the screen. I suspect either thermal > stress on the CPU, a crack in teh system board, or bad RAM -- and I > tried swapping the RAM, to no avail.) My ancient Vaio PCG-C1XS is still cranking, running 4.10. :) On an aside: said Vaio was demonstrating the same symptoms as your current laptop. I found that it's a bad battery. If I remov the battery completely, and just use AC, the laptop will run just dandy... > Thanks! > > Peace, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org > I resent spammers because spam is a DoS attack on my time. -- Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large
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