On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Joe Pruett<[email protected]> wrote: >> Today after several days of just having this dead laptop not work at all, >> I tried to turn it on. The screen activated and the first screen that usually >> can up when it worked came up. It started to boot and then it all of a sudden >> went dead. >> >> I have a Knoppix disk in the cd drive, but while this was happening there was >> very little noise coming from the laptop. After it died I tried again and it >> almost went as long as this last time. I took out the battery and tried it >> again and it tried, but no go. >> >> Any thoughts out there. I think there is life here, how do I get it? > > if no noise is coming out, maybe the fan is dead and it is shutting off > from the heat sensors?
In which case, maybe you can boot into the bios. If there is a temperature sensor monitor you can see what is happening there. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
