Is there a CMOS battery in the laptop. It is kind of small, looks like a watch battery. You may need to remove the keyboard to find it.
>>> "Gruss Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/02/07 12:15 PM >>> I've got a PC that's on the fritz and will randomly give me the BSOD with a memory fault, "trying to access paged memory in a non-paged area" after telling me it found new USB or PCI hardware even though I didn't touch it. Once it crashes I have to try to reboot about 10 times before it'll come up (I just get a blank screen otherwise). But here's the REALLY WEIRD part: Today I put the machine on standby. When I tried to wake it, it never came back so I hit the power button to shut it down. Then I removed the battery, pushed a bunch of buttons including the power button, replaced the battery and tried to reboot. It took about 10 tries before it actually booted, the other times displaying nothing on the screen. So finally it comes back up and looks like it's booting ...BUT! It asks me to log in, which I do. AND THEN IT RETURNS ME TO MY SESSION! All my previously opened apps, their state, everything. And I was able to work for about 5 min before the BSOD again. How can a PC do that? I thought that when you shut it down, especially if you remove the battery, that it clears RAM. Where is it storing my session? Is there some ROM session storage that's going on? I thought PCs read software from disk into RAM and held session info there such that when you lose RAM you lose your session. Apparently this is not the case? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237624 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
