From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 00:07:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3382616A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:07:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.numachi.com (mail2.numachi.com [198.175.254.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F8FC43D41 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:07:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 46499 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2004 00:07:11 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by mail2.numachi.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2004 00:07:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 23155 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Nov 2004 00:07:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:07:10 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: David Wolfskill Message-ID: <20041112000710.GU264@numachi.com> References: <200411111737.iABHbpFp014244@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411111737.iABHbpFp014244@bunrab.catwhisker.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suitability of Sony VAIO laptop for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:07:13 -0000 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 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large