Power supply is no good, or about to die...
Ran through the scenario again.... what could have happened.....?
Plugged, unplugged, checked connections, pushed buttons, etc...
Half jokingly, I rapped on the power supply a few times with my knuckles....
Power!
Yeah!!!!
He's of to the computer shop for a replacement...
Thanks...
"James E Middleton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In a panic I shot the last post off, with some logical assumptions.
>
> The laptop was running from a power cable when this happened.
>
> The battery was, and always is in the laptop, so it remains charged.
>
> He returned to the office about 3 hours after he started the encoding and
> left.
>
> Running from a power supply, what shut the computer down?
>
> Did the computer overheat?
>
> If the battery in the computer is always there and charged, why no power?
>
> SO!!!!
>
> What if the power supply just died?
>
> Maybe it's a bad power supply?
>
> He left the office with the laptop running from the power supply (cable
> and brick), the power supply dies, the laptop shifts to battery power, it
> runs off the battery until it dies.
>
> No one is there to see a low batter warning, in which case we'd be able to
> say, 'Hey, it's plugged in and the battery is going to die, power supply
> must be dead!'
>
> We come back and the laptop is completely dead.
>
> No lights in the LCD panel, it's plugged in, the battery should be OK...
>
> Maybe the meltdown idea is a bit off; a machine should shut down before
> that happens...
>
> For now, we'll keep our fingers crossed for a faulty power supply.
>
> Thanks for your response, we'll dig out the manual and look for some reset
> procedures if that happens to be the case.
>
>
>
> "NewbieSupreme" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>
>> "James E Middleton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:uA6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>
>>> Fujitsu - Biblo MG70J
>>>
>>> Centrino 1.7 RAM 512
>>>
>>> One of my co-workers was converting large .avi files to mpeg2 on his
>>> laptop. Setup a 6GB .avi to encode and left the computer unattended for
>>> a few hours.
>>>
>>> When he came back, the laptop was dead... still is for that matter.
>>>
>>> The battery that is in the computer is charged, power cable seems to be
>>> OK, but no way to test it now.
>>>
>>> When we press 'power' nothing happens; no lights in the LCD, no HDD
>>> spin, no beeps, nothing.
>>>
>>> Could the load from converting the .avi files overheated the computer?
>>>
>>> *Usually, when the encoding program is run, it causes the computer we
>>> normally use, desktops with P4 2.8 to run at full load for hours at a
>>> time.*
>>>
>>> Just seems coincidental, but I can't think of anything else...
>>>
>>
>> James:
>>
>> Was the laptop running from battery power for the conversion? How do you
>> know it's now charged? Did you find that out by putting it in a
>> different laptop? Try putting a new battery in, or if you don't have
>> one, try removing it and just using cable. I've heard of the battery
>> dying and needing to be removed and run straight from cable until
>> replacement brick shows up. This was a while ago, but the technology and
>> route power follows might not have changed much.
>>
>> Any machine I know of built since '95 typically has some sort of
>> emergency power down to shut everything off before actual harm comes to
>> hardware in overheating scenarios. Not all of them have the same
>> procedure to reset, though. Some need contact points on the mobo
>> connected, some need CMOS battery taken out/put back in, some need jumper
>> reset on mobo, blah blah. Check the manual for that laptop model for
>> details of emergency shutdown, or whatever they might call it. If the
>> laptop has no details, try the manual of the motherboard (usually online
>> at mfg. website somewhere).
>>
>> HTH
>>
>
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