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My IBM ThinkPad X31 hangs when I unplug it. It may or may not dim the screen for a few seconds first (dimming the screen is in my power saver settings). Then the screen goes blank, the disk (as far as I can tell by ear and by the indicator light) shuts down, and the computer does not respond to anything except holding down the power button long enough to just plain shut it off.
It works fine on battery as long as it was booted on battery. It won't transition.
This has been going on for only a few days. For the first two years I've had it, it has never exhibited this problem.
Is there a way to make it STOP doing this?
edit: Dangit, I was going to try swapping batteries and removing the new memory and all, but now it HAS stopped. I can't get it to do it at all. Which means I can't trust it. ObSheesh: Sheesh.
It works fine on battery as long as it was booted on battery. It won't transition.
This has been going on for only a few days. For the first two years I've had it, it has never exhibited this problem.
Is there a way to make it STOP doing this?
edit: Dangit, I was going to try swapping batteries and removing the new memory and all, but now it HAS stopped. I can't get it to do it at all. Which means I can't trust it. ObSheesh: Sheesh.
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I don't THINK I brought it up in safe mode, but I realize now that one difference between "this morning" and "now" is I took some Windows updates. *sigh*.
It's not about it being flaky, it's about it betraying you...
Because it's a Windows machine, yes, that's exactly how I'd phrase it. O'course I also can't trust something that's merely flaky, but Windows is downright malicious.