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Subject: Some tech questions to fellow owners

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Artur Shepilko

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Date Posted: 15:36:39 08/23/99 Mon

Now we all are really in the same boat ...

Previously I posted some questions here re USB and BIOS. So I was lucky enough to discover those problems in time, so I got my machine ( Vivane SE/266/64M/2M 655555 )back about 2 weeks before the collapse. And I discovered that, yes, BIOS had been updated ( R 1.01 1999/06/22 ), and USB is quite usable. I'm not sure whether this is a new unit, or just a fix, but it has a _new_ serial number while upper PC slot shows traces of use similar to my ones. But guess what -- I'm experiencing some new problems now ( am I lucky enough ??).

1) Suspend/Resume problem
==When I suspend machine to DISK it hibernates itself pretty smoothly, but when I wake it up it starts up ok, and loads to black screen, then it makes a clacky beep and finally loads into my previous state, but 2 sec after I got all my tasks back, it starts sounding high tone that last till I do reboot. And it apparently takes much CPU because touchpad becomes jumpy. In regular mode I don't have those problem , so far...
==When I suspend it to RAM it behaves even more mysteriously -- again it goes smoothly into sleep mode and gets back normally on my consequent pressing of suspend/resume button, but if I leave it sleeping for an hour or two it would not respond to the suspend/resume button at all i.e. it would stay silent (no usual beep), and wouldn't wake up so I have to cycle the power.
All of the above is valid in both AC and battery modes.

2) Battery meter glitch.
==Since I got machine back I can't make my (new ?) battery charge over 88%. It apparently works ( again, so far) and normally discharges, but then it wouldn't charge beyond 88%. I tried complete discharging, and learning to no avail. Battery gauge lights to 100%.

Sorry for the long description. But I hope we could make collectively a list of possible problems and some of the existing solutons.

Artur

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Some tech questions to fellow owners	Andrew	20:07:07 08/23/99 Mon
Re: Some tech questions to fellow owners -- Artur, 19:51:06 08/24/99 Tue
Re: Oops, another problem >:(	Artur	19:54:30 08/24/99 Tue