On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:48:16PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:39:36PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> > Huh -- this happened to me yesterday, out of the blue.  It's never
> > happened before, but all of a sudden, while I was using my Compaq
> > Armada M700 (with NetBSD 1.6ZC), it just shut off, with no warning.
> > It was connected to the mains at the time.
> 
> Compaq armada users at work also reported the same problem, with
> both windows or linux. mains connected or not doesn't change the problem.
> 
> I don't know what's going on yet. We have a dozen armada, only 2 seems to
> have this problem for now.

How long do the batteries last on the problematic Armada units? My
battery only held about a 10 minute charge when I was having the
problem. Since I replaced the battery, I have not had any trouble. Maybe
this is a Compal problem or something. I don't know about the Armadas
but the Dell Inspiron 5000e is actually a Compal 38W2 rebranded as a
Dell.

Bryan