Re: Suitability of Sony VAIO laptop for FreeBSD?
Brian Reichert <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:37:51AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > Last Saturday, my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 5000e) apparently stopped > working for the last time. (Ugly mode of failure -- won't stay powered > up (even via AC adaptor) to complete a boot sequence; usually doesn't > even get as far as illuminating the screen. I suspect either thermal > stress on the CPU, a crack in teh system board, or bad RAM -- and I > tried swapping the RAM, to no avail.) My ancient Vaio PCG-C1XS is still cranking, running 4.10. :) On an aside: said Vaio was demonstrating the same symptoms as your current laptop. I found that it's a bad battery. If I remov the battery completely, and just use AC, the laptop will run just dandy... > Thanks! > > Peace, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill [email protected] > I resent spammers because spam is a DoS attack on my time. -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"