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re: ThinkPad 380Z Keeps Shutting Down! Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 3:24 pm Posted by Malcolm Fowler (1736 messages posted) Not sure this will help but have you tried going into Power Management and disabling Hibernate/Suspend and making sure that the laptop is set for AC only operation - not Batteries or Automatic On Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 2:24 pm, GH wrote: >The ThinkPad 380Z (running under Win 98 SE) that I inherited has a dead battery. >I had been running the laptop with an adapter just fine, when all of a sudden it >slowly shut down on me, and I couldn't re-start it until much later. > > After that, it wouldn't finishing booting up (even with the adapter plugged in), >and it kept shutting down on me. > >The Suspend Mode Indicator Light stays on for long periods, even when unplugged--does >this mean the 380Z settings cause it to shut down like that (in Suspend or Hibernate >mode)? > >While it’s shut down, hitting the Fn key does no good, nor does unplugging it for >60 seconds and plugging it back in. > >Thanks for any responses.... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ThinkPad 380Z Keeps Shutting Down! Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 3:55 pm Posted by GH (34 messages posted) The machine won't stay on long enough for me to go in and change the settings in Power Management--it just shuts right back down half-way through the power-up. (I did notice that the adapter for it I purchased had a surface crack in it; I wonder....) On Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 3:24 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote: >Not sure this will help but have you tried going into Power Management and disabling >Hibernate/Suspend and making sure that the laptop is set for AC only operation - >not Batteries or Automatic > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ThinkPad 380Z Keeps Shutting Down! Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 6:06 pm Posted by Malcolm Fowler (1736 messages posted) Could well be the power supply... have you got any way of checking it - voltmeter etc? On Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 3:55 pm, GH wrote: >The machine won't stay on long enough for me to go in >and change the settings in Power Management--it just shuts right back down half-way >through the power-up. > >(I did notice that the adapter for it I purchased had a surface crack in it; I wonder....) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ThinkPad 380Z Keeps Shutting Down! Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 6:16 pm Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) GH, Try this link, lots of IBM TPad info. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-51038 BW On Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 2:24 pm, GH wrote: >The ThinkPad 380Z (running under Win 98 SE) that I inherited has a dead battery. >I had been running the laptop with an adapter just fine, when all of a sudden it >slowly shut down on me, and I couldn't re-start it until much later. > > After that, it wouldn't finishing booting up (even with the adapter plugged in), >and it kept shutting down on me. > >The Suspend Mode Indicator Light stays on for long periods, even when unplugged--does >this mean the 380Z settings cause it to shut down like that (in Suspend or Hibernate >mode)? > >While it’s shut down, hitting the Fn key does no good, nor does unplugging it for >60 seconds and plugging it back in. > >Thanks for any responses.... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ThinkPad 380Z Keeps Shutting Down! Monday, January 2, 2006 at 10:21 am Posted by GH (34 messages posted) That's a good suggestion - I'll borrow a voltmeter from a friend of mine--Thanks! On Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 6:06 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote: >Could well be the power supply... have you got any way of checking it - voltmeter >etc? > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ThinkPad 380Z Keeps Shutting Down! Monday, January 2, 2006 at 10:25 am Posted by GH (34 messages posted) BW - Thanks for the link. GH On Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 6:16 pm, bob wells wrote: >GH, > >Try this link, lots of IBM TPad info. > >http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-51038 > >BW > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ThinkPad 380Z Keeps Shutting Down! Monday, January 2, 2006 at 7:39 pm Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) GH, Glad to help. Don't know if you caught this. If Laptop won't work on the AC adapter, without the battery, the problem is either the AC power supply or the Laptop. Try another Adapter, then look for problem in unit.. Good luck. BW On Monday, January 2, 2006 at 10:25 am, GH wrote: >BW - > > Thanks for the link. > >GH > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum