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Ki Mendrossen
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Thu May 04, 2006 7:36 pm |
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I just got a sony vaio notebook that works great but when I restart it does nothing. I tell win xp to restart, win will shutdown but after that I get a dark screen. The power light stays on but the system acts dead. I have to manually power the system off and power it back on in order for it to work. Is there a way to correct this issue?
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Puckdropper
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Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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Location: Not in Chicago
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Thu May 04, 2006 9:08 pm |
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Could be a software problem. Are you sure everything's shutting down properly? You could try killing a bunch of tasks and seeing if any cause errors or take the much slower route of killing one, and restarting. Then kill the next. |
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Ki Mendrossen
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Fri May 05, 2006 2:16 pm |
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| Could be a software problem. Are you sure everything's shutting down properly? You could try killing a bunch of tasks and seeing if any cause errors or take the much slower route of killing one, and restarting. Then kill the next. |
This is clearly a hardware issue. If I boot into DOS and hit CTRL+ALT-DEL the system goes dead. The system will not go back to the BIOS screen like it should. |
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Puckdropper
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Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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Fri May 05, 2006 3:35 pm |
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I'm not sure then. Just a few guesses:
1) Bad BIOS flash
2) missing/disconnected CPU Reset pin |
_________________
>say "Hello sailor"
Nothing happens here.
>score
Your score is 202 (total of 350 points), in 866 moves.
This gives you the rank of Adventurer. |
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Erik
Joined: 28 Feb 2006
Posts: 127
Location: LI, NY
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Fri May 12, 2006 4:01 pm |
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I have a similar problem with my Linux ThinkPad, when it shuts down to halt it doesn't turn the power off (though the screen and everything are turned off). I still have to manually hold the button down for ~3 seconds to kill the power. But that's just because I haven't gotten around to apt-get installing apmd (advance power management daemon).
Perhaps you should check to see if Windows has the proper drivers installed?
...though I don't see how that would affect booting from a boot disk and rebooting... :\ |
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bear
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Posts: 205
Location: 57�59'N 15�39'E
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Sat May 13, 2006 9:17 am |
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Might be a stupid thing like the energy alternative settings in controlpanel. |
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