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Old 15-09-2008, 14:33   #6
kryogenik
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Re: Laptop fault - OS or hardware?

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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
Go into the bios and turn off the power management features then see if it shuts down.
Nowt there to do it Kymmy. Only power option is long life battery and LCD saving, both already disabled, but tried enabling too - still shuts down.
Battery indicator still says charging but it's clearly not.

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Originally Posted by Enuff View Post
Did it shutdown whilst in safe mode? Could be a corrupted hard drive?

It didn't the last time I tried, but I think it has done at least once? I'll need to test it again. Could that be it? I did (eventually, after 3 shutdowns during..) get Windows to run through a chkdsk at startup and reported no bad clusters or sectors. I'll look for a proprietary app to check it, if I can get the damn thing to stay on long enough. It's not making it to the desktop 9 times out of 10 right now. Sometimes it shuts down during boot.
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