Re: Gateway Laptop doesn't like the cold


"John B. Smith" <crasso@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not owning a wireless router myself, I wanted to find out if the
wireless receiver in my MD7822u worked. I was advised I could just lug
it into any Starbucks or a couple other WiFi places. So yesterday
morning I loaded it into the car along with my gym bag. Battery was
fully charged. Temperature was 9 degrees F. I stopped at the Y for
about an hour and a half (leaving laptop in car), then drove to a WiFi
place and parked in the lot. Turned on laptop, no screen available.
Keyboard lights were on and harddrive was doing SOMETHING, I couldn't
tell what. So I shut machine off by holding On button. When I got back
home it would boot to Vista, but when I went Start - Turn Off Computer
it hung. It wanted, at some point, to do a chkdsk, which
malfunctioned. Finally Vista would not boot. Gateways StartUp Repair
failed. Proceeded with Gateway's Recovery Management and recovered
back to default from the hidden partition. I spent the rest of the
afternoon getting Vista back in Classic condition preferred by
sensible people, doing Vista Updates, putting the 4 programs I'd
installed back on.

My question, (finally) do notebooks all hate the cold? Does it kill
their screens? What is the coldest temp that it's safe to use them at?
Any other tips for a brand new notebook guy?

Funny that you asked.
I read the other day about the condensation that forms in the LCD screen by
attempting to start a cold laptop that turns out to be potentially harmful.


http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/laptopstabletpcs/tp/coldweathertips.htm

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Jan Alter
bearpuf@xxxxxxxxxxx


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