Sager 3880 Power on problem

Ok am I missing something here or what... When I try to start my brand new sager 3880 when it is on battery the screen will not come on.

Example:

I was sitting in the hall waiting on my next class to begin. I got my laptop out of my bag opened it up and hit the power button. The 5 lights on the side blinked. The HDD light stayed on at that point and the power button light under the monitor was on. I waited 5 - 15 seconds for the "Sager" splash screen to come up but it never did. I hit and held the power button to turn it off. After it turned off I waited about 5 to 10 seconds and tryed it again. It did the same thing the lights come on the hdd light stayed on the power light under the monitor looked like it was supposed to but the sager BIOS splash screen never poped up. This happend 4 or 5 times. I finally took the battery out of the machine, waited a few minutes and then tryed it again. After doing so the machine started working properly. Any ideas on what is going on.

ok in another building waiting on another class and the thing did the same thing. It took me 5-7 tries before the thing ever come on. This time reseting the battery wouldn't even help the problem.

As far as all of your assumption on the laptop not running at its full speed on battery is a false assuption. The laptops require software to do this. Go install slackware/gentoo/mandrake/RedHat and look at the CPU speed it is running at. It will be running at its native speed until you install software that will declock the cpu. Why do you think when you turn your laptop on and you finally get into windows your CPU fan is wizzing away. The reason it because there is not any software telling the cpu to declock its self to save battery. Once you are in windows the problem goes away.

The battery is not bad. Once the machine gets working the battery lasts 4-5 hours. It just seems when the machine is doing a cold start it has the most trouble. It almost seems the machine needs to warmup before it will actually start.

I am going to email PCtorque and see what they say. I am sorry to say I am almost sick of this.

Waited 3.5 weeks to get it had it for 3 days had to spend 20 bucks to send it back. Supposedly the LCD panel was replaced but wasn't as I had a little red mark on the side of it but the LCD now works so I do not care. Now this crap happens.

So far I have had to ship it back for the screen. Now I am going to talk to them about this *Sigh*. Ima see if it does it tomorrow and if it does i am going to be pissed because I know its going to have to be shipped back.

you are probably right i have high hopes it will work. I just need the time to sit down and write it up a letter to pctorque. I am on this stupid thing all day and need the thing for projects and stuff and do not need to be out. I also have finals coming up in the next 3.5 weeks and anyone else that has been through a major top 50 ranked engineering course they know how hard it is muchless having to fix what you work on all day .*sigh*

Strange today it powered on perfectly fine. This is annoying as hell trying to figure out these sparatic problems.

Well today sitting outside it only took 3 times to start the thing today . Yay lol. :rollseyes:

I just send an email to pctorque. Lets hope something gets done .

The power button works as all the lights and stuff light up and the power light is on. If the power button didn't work then the thing wouldnt come on at all I would assume.