[PLUG] Unexpected shutdown

[Carla Schroder]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 1:42 pm, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Yesterday I went away for a few hours, but I left my Dapper laptop
> running. I usually do leave it running, and I have no automatic
> shutdown settings that I know of. For example, I leave it running when
> I go to bed, and in the morning it is still running. The only thing
> that kicks in is the screensaver.
>
> When I came home it was completely turned off. I immediately assumed
> something had gone flakey with the power brick and the battery had run
> down as a result. But when I restarted it the battery was fully charged.
>
> I would never leave it without being sure all open files had been
> saved, so I didn't lose anything. Nevertheless, it is disconcerting.
> This has never happened before. I'd like to know what made it suddenly
> decide to shut itself down. Does anyone have any ideas?

Do you have a cat? They do like to make mischief.

Maybe you had a power outage long enough to drain the battery? Then it charged 
back up when the power came back on.
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