Re: Weird: Inspiron 8000 switches on and off automatically

From: fm (postmaster_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 07/18/04

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    Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:13:51 +0200

    jos wrote:

    > 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
    Is it connected to a network? Could it be Wake-On-LAN? How about the
    modem? Wake-On-Ring? USB peripherals? PCMCIA-activity?

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