[ale] OT: killing a laptop

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Wed Jan 8 09:22:58 EST 2003


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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