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Re: Heat buildup with lid closed?



On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:41:36 -0500, Jane Loyless wrote:

>have *never* had anyone report this kind of problem to me nor had I
>ever seen anything crop up on the list about it
Then I'm No. 1:
Yesterday I turned on my 760ED, started booting NT4, closed the lid and went for a coffee. 
When I came back (about 1 hour later :), I opened the lid (the whole TP was fairly hot, not 
to mention the PCMCIA cards, as I detected later) and saw NT's login screen, telling me to 
press Ctrl+Alt+Del in order to log in.

But when I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del, nothing happened.
The keyboard was totally dead.
So I wanted to turn the TP off and on again, but that wasn't possible! I only heard a beep, 
and it kept running!!
So I sat in front of my TP and didn't know what to do.
I can't reboot it since it has no reset button and NT uses Ctrl+Alt+Del not for rebooting.
I can't turn it off.
Unplugging doesn't work since it has a battery.

So I had to remove the battery while my TP was running (power cable already unplugged).

IMO this crash was due to the closed lid.
I hope this doesn't happen again.

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kind regards,
Rainer Feuerstein