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Andrew
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Date Posted: 20:07:07 08/23/99 Mon
In reply to:
Artur Shepilko
's message, "Some tech questions to fellow owners" on 15:36:39 08/23/99 Mon
Sounds like you are having the same problem that I did with the suspend. Of the four machines that I had (1 purchase and 3 replacements), 3 of them had the exact symptoms you describe (the 4th suspended and resumed perfectly but the USB was bad).
For the battery, try removing the APM drivers and then rebooting (should detect and reinstall automatically. See my reply to Garett for the steps.
> 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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