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post #1 of 4
4/3/05 at 8:24pm
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book power failure with battery at 100% and ac cord attached? any ideas..
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post #2 of 4
4/3/05 at 8:26pm
Please be more specific, I have no idea what you are saying?

Are you saying you laptop powers off for no reason even though you are plugged in and battery is at 100%?

If so I would check your heatsink and fan.
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post #3 of 4
4/3/05 at 8:55pm
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complete power failure on solo 2550 laptop

oh sorry bout that man, yeah it turns off by itself,,,,the thing that gets me
is that, it could go days ok, but other days it turns off even after i just
log on, or i could used the net for hours but after trying to change the
wallpaper it dies out. i try reintalling windows, new ac cord, and on battery setting even set all to never. Also i downloaded the battery learning software from gateway but it's the same, finnaly im running the knoppix live cd booting from the d; drive to see if it was the hard drive but guess what same deal......thanks for your help
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post #4 of 4
4/3/05 at 10:34pm
That type of symptom sounds like it could be the thermal interface paste in between the heatsink and cpu core. It may also be caused by having the heatsink fins clogged up.

If it was my laptop, I would yank the heatpipe assembly off and clean it real good and reapply some new paste.
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