Pachydermitis wrote:
> On Jan 12, 10:00 am, "Terry R." <F1ComNOS...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> The date and time was 1/12/2008 8:57 AM, and on a whim, Pachydermitis
>> pounded out on the keyboard:
>>
>>> I have a laptop that had ...er... a considerable amount of liquid
>>> spilled on it. It seems to have survived with only one serious
>>> quirk. When I boot into windows on battery power, windows shuts down
>>> - right at or before the login screen. Battery is fine, system will
>>> run a linux kernel on batt power just fine, system runs winxp on ac
>>> power just fine. Warrantee repairman said I need a new system board
>>> to the tune of $750...so I think I'd like to just disable the power
>>> management shutdown in windows completely - and save often. This is
>>> xp pro with all the updates and drivers. I tried going into the power
>>> management settings, but I don't see a way to do this.
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> P
>> I would guess that a driver that is being loaded by Windows for a
>> specific piece of hardware is crashing and shutting down (maybe due to
>> hardware failure or damage). I would be curious, can you boot using
>> Safe Mode on battery?
>>
>> Possibly the Linux boot hasn't detected the faulty hardware, so it
>> doesn't crash.
>>
>> --
>> Terry R.
>>
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> I can boot into safe mode just fine. I tried it and the power
> management doesn't work in safe mode. I also tried disabling some of
> the power management features in bios and that let's me in. So if I
> can just get windows to not shut me down in regular mode, I am good.
Have you tried a boot with logging enabled to show where it it choking?
That might give you an idea where to attack it.
John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com
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