[ltp] Dead R51

[Christopher Sawtell]

On Sunday 07 May 2006 06:35, Hunter Fuller wrote:
> On  06 May 2006, at 9:58 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 May 2006 07:01, Andrew Barr wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:40 +0000, Hunter Fuller wrote:
> >>> I learnt this trick from IBM. Yank your battery and AC adaptor, and
> >>> hold down the power button for two minutes. Let go, and plug in the
> >>> battery and AC adapter. Now try.
> >>
> >> I cannot express how grateful I am for that tip! I did as you said
> >> and
> >> now it has fired up four times without incident. It seems almost too
> >> good to be true but there it is...thank you, again, very much.
> >
> > How does this work?   i.e. What does it do?
>
> It completely drains the notebook's capacitors, thereby removing ALL
> electricity. I'm not sure what effect this has,
An absolutely cold boot I imagine. So when it reboots it will reset 
_everything_ to the factory defaults.

Useful tip.

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CS