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Sunday, May 14th, 2006 07:18 pm
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.
Monday, May 15th, 2006 11:10 am (UTC)
I gave up on my ThinkPad A31 when I realized there was probably a broken trace in the motherboard - it would freeze up if I moved it even slightly. Probably got overflexed once too many.
Monday, May 15th, 2006 02:42 pm (UTC)
Yikes, that's pretty bad.

Normally I'm not hard on electronic stuff. In an age where people drop cell phones or run them through the laundry, mine is maybe six years old. I'm still using an original Palm Pilot. But I do carry this thing around a lot, so something like that is conceivable.