On 2014-11-28 16:51, vixsomnis wrote: > On November 28, 2014 9:08:16 AM EST, Rasmus Liland wrote: > > It is dead. > > > > Yesterday, as I tried to suspend to ram using systemd on old working > > kernel, supending did not work completely. > > > > So I tried moving up to new kernel 3.17.something to see if things > > worked out better there; as now I was more optimistic, since e.g. chrony > > were syncing the rtc based on statistical methods and not only NTP > > protocol. > > > > Suspend to ram was able to complete with new kernel, and everything was > > good for a while -- Until yesterday when I suspended on very low battery > > and after that I think the battery went flat during suspend. This has not > > been a problem in the past, but when I tried to charge the laptop > > afterwards, the charge LED did not light up even though the light on the > > charger said it was active. > > > > So, no power connection there, thus I guess most parts of the system are > > still working as before, something related to the delivery of power is > > broken -- probably a capasitor of some sort or other things that wear out > > over time, I have little knowledge on this, but I guess if this was a > > desktop I would probably swap the power supply unit for a fresh one. > > > > Honestly, I was hoping this laptop would last me at least four years of > > intensive everyday use, as the price tag was quite high. > > > > I am going to try to email the vendor to try to get a decent refund, as I > > think Norwegean law permits a three-year-warranty on consumer > > electronics, no matter what the Samsung company says. > > Have you done memtests? It could also be a failing drive. > > You should probably make a bootable mentest86 drive and run a full test. I am not able to boot the laptop at all as the battery is unable to consume power from the charger, thus I am not even able to run memtests as I am not able to boot anything, even entering bios is not possible. Nothing -- it has become a brick ... -- Rasmus Liland, jrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, jens.rasmus.liland@xxxxxxx
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