Re: Weird: Inspiron 8000 switches on and off automatically

From: Jacob (lord-jacob-not-really_at_comcast-possibly.net)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:16:41 GMT

On 17 Jul 2004 10:29:11 -0700, a posting issued forth from jos...
> HI
>
> Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and noticed that
> my laptop showed some pretty weird behaviour: it switched on
> by itself, started booting, and 15 secs later or so it switched off
> again. One minute later the same happened and a minute later again.
> I finally had to pull out the battery to make it stop. When I
> tried this morning, everything was fine... What could
> be the cause of this? I have suse 8.0, and I think there is also a
> windows partition present still.
>
> jos

Things which have had similar effects on me:

1) Bad memory
2) Short in an IDE cable (very strange)
3) Overheating (does SuSE throttle your laptop's CPU?)
4) Cracker (granted, under Win98...)

HTH 

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Jacob
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