[FC2] Toshiba Laptop Unexpectedly Powers Off

[Joe MacDonald]

I had the same problem with my Toshiba Satellite 1900. It is probably over
heating.

I am not sure how your fan and air flow/vents are laid out on your laptop
but I took some off and blew out quite a bit of dust. Especially around the
air exhaust. If you can get to the actual fan that would be best.

Don't get carried away and spin the fan at high speed using compressed air
as you will jsut burn out the bearings.

Ever since I cleaned mine out I haven't had any problems.

Let me know if this works.

Joe MacDonald
jamacdon at hwy97.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Brown" <xthor at xthorsworld.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: [FC2] Toshiba Laptop Unexpectedly Powers Off


> I am having a really weird problem with FC2, and I'm hoping someone here
> can help me think of other ways to troubleshoot this problem. I've got a
> Toshiba Satellite 1135-S1552 that I've been using under Fedora Core 1
> since it's release date without a problem. Recently I backed up my FC1
> installation and did a clean install of FC2. Things work great, except
> for one pretty major irritation: Under FC2, my laptop will suddenly
> power itself off, but only when running on battery power. I am unable to
> figure out exactly where the problem lies. So far, I've tried:
>
> * recompiling the kernel (source from kernel.org)
> * reinstalling from different CDs (mediacheck clears)
> * using a different window manager (gnome, KDE, enlightenment)
> * booting to Knoppix and testing there
>
> I've checked /var/log/acpid, /var/log/messages, and /var/log/boot.log
> for any possible clues, but I saw NOTHING that indicated what was
> causing the machine to power off.
>
> Initially, I thought that something must have changed in ACPI in kernel
> 2.6, but Knoppix 3.4 (booted to the 2.6 kernel) works fine. The laptop
> also has an XP Pro partition and a FC1 partition, and the problem
> doesn't exhibit itself on either of these operating systems, which seems
> to rule out the possibility of a hardware issue.
>
> If any of you have ANY ideas as far as other things I can troubleshoot,
> I'd love to hear them. Thanks for your help.
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