[Nottingham] Netbook dimming

[Martin]

On 19/09/14 08:28, david at gbenet.com wrote:
> On 19/09/14 07:28, Ron Wilton wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a 4 year old netbook that has started to act strangely. The screen dims and becomes
>> unresponsive (though sometimes I can move the cursor around). After a few minutes the screen
>> brightens up and I am able to continue using the computer. I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening?


> Perhaps your connection to your power supply is getting lose - you ought to take the back
> off and clean your internal fan - and check to see if the power connector's not loose.

Or even that the mains power adapter plug/connector is loose and the
netbook is attempting to go into sleep/hibernate powerdown to then
immediately boot back up again when reconnected...

A 4 year-old netbook could have batteries that are now old enough to no
longer survive the mains power adapter not being connected...


Hope that might give some clues,

Cheers,
Martin


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