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    Automatic Reboot?

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by msurf, Apr 9, 2010.

  1. msurf

    msurf Notebook Enthusiast

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    This forum is awesome. Thanks for all of the advice given by varoius members over the last year. I have had a strange problem plaguing me: Anyone ever had a problem with a CF-28 automatically rebooting after shutdown? I have been trying to figure this one out for a while now. I shutdown through the windows menu, the it reboots right back up. I usually wait until it shuts down and then hold the power swich down so it wont reboot. Any thoughts?
    Mahalos,
    Mike
     
    msurf, Apr 9, 2010
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    KLonsdale Notebook Evangelist

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    Sounds like something is crossed up in the power switch if you have to hold it down to keep it from rebooting. Try shooting some compressed air into the switch from the inside and see if that helps.
     
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    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    MSurf -

    If it's XP or Win2000, odds are something is crashed in the ACPI power management I/O stack. I've seen this before; usually requires a complete nuke & pave.

    If you have an old HDD, even a 10 or 20GB, swap it out & do a quick install of XP on it just to isolate whether it's hardware or OS related. You don't need to activate it; just get the d@mn thing to complete the install so you can see if it shuts down properly.

    mnem
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    mnementh, Apr 9, 2010
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    jtsiek Notebook Guru

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    I've seen this in old p4 compaq laptops before...they ended up having faulty batteries. You could try pulling the battery and see if it still restarts.
     
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    msurf Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the replies...It is definitely not the batteries...have had three different ones in there. I was contemplating wiping the machine and installing XP, (has 2000 now) but I dont have any of the panasonic drivers. Just dont want it to turn into a nightmare looking around for all the different things. Ill keep trying to figure it out.
     
    msurf, Apr 9, 2010
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