James wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:53 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
>
>> Removing the battery from a laptop often cures things. I wonder if
>> pressing the power button for 30 seconds really does anything except
>> force you to wait 30 seconds for the charge to drain out of capacitors.
>
> I've had to EC-reset a few notebooks that refused to start, pulling the
> battery for five seconds always did the job. The firmware is never
> perfect, and in certain cases Linux's ACPI layer seemed to trigger bugs
> that got the EC in a right seven-and-eight.
There's inflation for you. In my day, the phrase was 'a right
two-and-eight', although the web[1] also mentions 'six-and-eight'.
:)
[1]
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/english/alternatives/890
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
