[ale] OT: killing a laptop

[Fulton Green]

Hmmm ... it's probably not that great from the electronic components'
perspective, but it worked for me back when my laptop would lock up with
alarming regularity under Windows 95/98 (and earlier versions of Red Hat
Linux).

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:14:02AM -0500, John Wells wrote:
> Couldn't get any response from the machine...fans were on, power was on,
> but nothing.  Power button had no affect, and unlike my old Toshiba I
> couldn't find a HARD reset button.
> 
> So, only thing I could think to do was jerk the battery out.  It worked,
> and I'm now rebooted.
> 
> Wondering if this is a relatively safe way to recover from a situation
> like this, or do I risk causing serious damage to the laptop?
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