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Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. SOLVED

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win11 added because this is really a win11 topic after all. And partly
win10.  "After one hour of working fine, new to me refurbished laptop is
dead and nothing wakes it up."

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:06:03 +0000, Brian
Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:

>Have you done the usual holding the on button for 15 seconds thing to 
>force a complete power down?

Well, no, because I thought it *was* off.  The lights I had not noticed,
the one on the power key, the one in front that means it's charging, and
the lighted keyboard were all off.  No lights were on and the screen was
totally dark. 

But after trying a few more things this morning (well, really the same
things, unplugging and plugging in the charger and pushing Power), I
remembered what you said above and by golly, that worked. Maybe I
pressed Power again and the first thing I noticed is the keyboard lit
up. 7 points for you.  Heck, 500 points.   My next step was to call the
renewer!, couldn't call him on the weekend, and now I don't have to do
that. 

Where did you learn that this could work in this situation? 

AFAICT, it had checked for windows updates and of course there were some
becuase I hadn't turned it on for 6 weeks, and it had only been on an
hour 6 weeks ago.  Saturday night was the last time it checked for
updates, but this morning was when they were installed.  A lot of them. 

I haven't figured out yet how to enable Hibernate, and when I tried
Sleep, it blinked and woke up again each time, so I no longer remember
if I just closd the lid or if I tried to turn it off (I think I closed
the lid), but somehow it got stopped in the middle of windows update. 
>
>I generally totally disable sleep, hibernate and maybe also screen 
>savers on laptops. If they don't just immediately work perfectly it's 
>usually a nightmare trying to work out what's wrong with them. Often 

I guess I got a sample of that. 

And it seemed to do it again later today, Monday -- had to hold the
power button down until it turned off -- but since then it's behaved
itself. 

>laptops that could handle them on, say, Windows 7 completely fail with, 
>say, Windows 10.

I've had no trouble with any of themm and I use them "all the time".
Except that even though I set the mice to not wake the pc up from sleep,
sometimes they still do when I accidentally bump one of the mice on my
desk, but that's small potatoes compare to your complaint.  This new
win11 is not off to a good start with the confusion it gave me this
weekend, and it will take several days before I can enable Hibernate and
test Sleep, but if I have problems I plan to report back. 

You can redeem your points at the M&H Green Stamps Redemption Center in
Baltimore.  M-F 9 to 5:30 ET. I'll send address later.  Unfortunately,
you must redeem them in person, but we have some very nice prizes. Do
you need a FAX machine? 

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My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead.  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 03:59 -0500
  Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-26 05:52 -0500
    Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 11:03 -0500
      Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 16:19 +0000
        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. SOLVED, or Problem went away.  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-02 18:22 -0400
      Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2025-01-26 11:07 -0800
  Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 15:34 +0000
    Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 11:11 -0500
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        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-26 16:17 -0500
          Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-28 10:24 -0500
            Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-28 16:15 -0500
        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-02 18:21 -0400
  Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-26 17:06 +0000
    Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead.  SOLVED micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-27 22:55 -0500
      Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. SOLVED Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-27 23:42 -0500
        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. SOLVED Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-28 01:13 -0500
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