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    Low battery shutdown. Why is it classed "Disruptive"

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Mooly, Jul 9, 2009.

  1. Mooly

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    Have my critical battery level set at 5% and "shutdown" as the action to take. I reached this point yesterday and the laptop powered down OK, but I notice that the reliability monitor classes this as a disruptive shutdown.
    Why ? It's just doing what it's supposed to do.
    Is there any possibility of file corruption or anything. It seemed to shut down very smoothly.
     
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    I see that running battery packs down to the cutoff point is even recommended. So why does Vista say it was disruptive ?
     
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    Because it shouldn't be part of normal use.
    Any shutdown not initiated by user is classed as unintented.
    Like accidental death are classified as unnatural death?
     
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    Thanks,
    I haven't killed it just yet :)
    My main concern was really whether it could cause file corruption.
     
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    No it won't.
    When Disk is initialized it is checked whether it is cleanly unmounted or not.
    When it is in used it is marked as unclean.
    When shutdown or hibernate command is given all updates are synchronized to disk and disk is marked as clean before powered down.
    So no data loss.
     
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    Thank you, that's what I wanted to know.
     
    Mooly, Jul 10, 2009
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