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    leaving a laptop turned off for a few days

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by shinakuma9, Dec 27, 2009.

  1. shinakuma9

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    Alright so i am going out of town again without my laptop. Last time i did though, for about 4 days i left my laptop turned off on a table, unplugged. I came back and turned it on and it would just sit at a black screen but the lights would go on and i would hear the fan, just nothing was happening.
    I turned it off and turned it on again and after a few minutes it would boot up normally.

    SO my question is, would leaving a laptop off completely for a few days have some similar effects like this?
     
    shinakuma9, Dec 27, 2009
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    ??? Computers are made to be able to turn on and off. If yours is not doing so properly, then you've got a problem.
     
    Lithus, Dec 28, 2009
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    what i meant was is it normal for it to take longer for it to boot up/turn on after being left off for a period of time. Right now its running fine but thats because i use it pretty much every day. After being off for 4 days, will it take some time for the internals to get going or something?
     
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    No. A computer is not human. They don't get lethargic just sitting around.
     
    Lithus, Dec 28, 2009
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    It's a good idea to remove the battery though (I don't remember exactly why), but either way it should work fine when you return to it.
     
    DemonicHawk, Dec 28, 2009
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    It should boot as it normally would. I have left my laptop off for a week when I went on a trip to an extremely isolated place, and when I got home, it booted as it normally does, in the time of 35 seconds.
     
    Amnesiac, Dec 28, 2009
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    weird...
    Any ideas why that might've happened then?
     
    shinakuma9, Dec 28, 2009
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    I have seen that happen some times with computers. Maybe some dirt and or humidity.
     
    Bullit, Dec 28, 2009
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    that shouldn't happen... it should turn on easily even when not used for a few days... Something must be wrong with the laptop....
     
    sean473, Dec 28, 2009
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    Well, as people above said - it shouldn't happen.

    Just make sure you shut it down properly - i.e. no crash etc. and else, well - it shouldn't take longer than normally to boot.
     
    DetlevCM, Dec 28, 2009
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    Was the battery in when you left it unplugged? Was the battery drained when you came back? Is it an old laptop or fairly new?

    If it's an older laptop, it could be the CMOS battery going bad, especially if it was left unplugged, and the batter was drained...
     
    hceuterpe, Dec 28, 2009
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    Come to think of it, I have had that before. When my desktop's motherboard broke, and it got fixed, during that period it hadn't been turned on in about a week, and it took about 3 minutes to boot up...
     
    Amnesiac, Dec 28, 2009
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    Are you perhaps comparing a cold boot to suspend/hibernate wakeup times?

    A computer will take the same amount of time to boot after 1 hour as after 1 month.
     
    plumsauce, Jan 4, 2010
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    Normally when I've experienced a problem like this it was the hard drive not spinning up that caused it, especially if the computer was left in a cold room.

    I would often times not use my old Dell Inspiron 5160 for several weeks (or even months) at a time and at most it might take a few extra seconds to boot up the first time after setting that long, but I never had to resort to turning it off and on again to get it going.
     
    PapaSmurf69, Jan 4, 2010
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