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    How to shutdown safely

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by cradle_emperor, Dec 11, 2011.

  1. cradle_emperor

    cradle_emperor Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry if this is a stupid question, but when your computer is stuck in a bootloop or a BSOD, is there like a key combo that you can press to shutdown? Or do you just have to hard-shutdown with the power button?

    And while were on the subject, whats the risk in turning your computer off hard with the power button?
     
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  2. SevenK

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    From my experience and understanding, I think there is only holding-your-power-button-down method or pulling the power cord. Both should only affect your hard disk with unsaved documents or maybe bad fragments. Do not think it will affect any other hardware (correct me if I am wrong).
     
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    I'd like some more opinions on that too. Never had BSOD on my P150HM, but its good to know anyway.
     
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  4. Anthony@MALIBAL

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    There isn't a shortcut that I know of without being in Windows. That said, holding down the power button for a hard shutdown won't do anything to the machine physically. The worst that could happen is hard disk corruption, but that's incredibly rare. If you're having BSOD's, the machine should shut down automatically after it dumps the buffer.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Dec 11, 2011
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