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Re: [PLUG] Laptop reboots -- Comcast or static or age?
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One thing not mentioned so far is the laptop's battery. I've found that a
laptop's battery usually needs to be replaced every two to three years. I
have also seen laptops do some really strange things when the battery
starts to go bad.
On the 1st day of December in the year 2002 you wrote:
> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 21:43:25 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mitch Maltenfort <mmalten@comcast.net>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Cc: cgw5@po.cwru.edu, Luke Schierer <luke@redjack.ninds.nih.gov>
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> Subject: [PLUG] Laptop reboots -- Comcast or static or age?
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> For the past week or so, I've had an annoying problem with my Linux
> laptop.
>
> The beast occasionally reboots. Usually this happens right at log-in, but
> now it's begun during operations in graphics mode.
>
> I figure there's three suspects, and any advice in tracking down which --
> and how to fix it! -- would be appreciated.
>
> 1) Comcast cable modem. This is my first time using this system with
> Comcast. It was fine with DirectTV DSL back in DC. Is it possible that
> somehow the Comcast cable modem is triggering the problem?
>
> 2) Sheer age. This system, with its configuration, is about three years
> old. Still, I had a good run with an older Tosh laptop and that still
> seems healthy.
>
> 3) Static shocks. Cold weather and carpeted apartment. I grasp something
> metal before sitting down to touch the computer, but still it gets jolted
> occasionally. I'm skeptical this is the case, because the problem is too
> localized. If I was screwing up my hard disk with shocks, I would expect
> more random misbehavior.
>
> So what could I configure, reconfigure, reinstall, etc. to square this
> away?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mitch
>
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