From my keyboard:
Just out of interest. In case someone has some experience like
this.
Just over a year ago bought a Dell Inspiron 3593 laptop
computer.
1.5.0 BIOS
610Hx23 service tag
Version BD 1-5-3
Running Bullseye.
I have a Dell Vostro 1510 born or bought in 2013 if I recall. Given
to me.
Only 3 GB of RAM but good enough, and running Bullseye as testing and
now stable. But I chose the Inspiron rather than the Vostro. which still
works flawlessly.
The Vostro sold me on trying Dell, though I had avoided them because of
past problems they had. I think at one stage many years ago fried the
hard drive or something when installed with a Linux operating system.
So gave them a wide berth.
The Inspiron was installed with Bulleye while testing from new.
Often when booting informed me the kernel has to be loaded first to
boot, and press any key to continue. However, brought up the same
message ad finitum no matter what key was pressed.
Required a hard reboot and then after one or two tries it booted with
ramdisk. I thought that would stop when Bullseye went stable. It
didn't. It still misses the boot for whatever reason? Flaky BIOS?
Now since Bulleye has gone stable. The Dell inspiration just stops
sometimes. I close the lid, open it up again. No power, no response from
any key or key combination. No lights, black, blank monitor.
Turning it on and off at the wall switch makes no difference because
it has a battery. Doesn't do anything, though the very first time it did
this, it did boot up again. battery was low I think? The last two times
it did not. This last time I took out the battery, so it would power up
when the power switch on the wall is turned on it would boot.
The temperature in the 4 cores are 42.0 degrees, for three, and one
43 degrees, I assume Celsius? Seldom runs much above this temperature.
I just wonder if anyone has found anything like this, and is it
Bullseye, or is it hardware. The latter will probably keep me away from
Dell again.
It would be good to know.
Just if anyone has time or is inclined to give me some of their
thoughts.
TIA,
Charlie
East Gippsland Wildlife Rehabilitators Inc..
http://www.egwildlife.com.au/
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