[ale] OT: killing a laptop

[Keith Morris]

you may have tried this, but on the laptops (and some of the desktops) I 
support, if the complete lockup happens I hold down the power button for 
several seconds (10 - 15) and that would trigger the bios hard power 
down....

don't know if that will work for you or not.

Keith


Fulton Green wrote:
> 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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