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    Battery Crash System? Maybe MediaDirect?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by 05Edge, Apr 16, 2006.

  1. 05Edge

    05Edge Notebook Consultant

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    Can your battery crash the system? This is what happened... I've finally got my new E1505 back to what seems to be a stable state, and I took it with me today to show my family. Of course, I get it out of my new backpack, hand it to my brother, and turn it on... It boots up, the windows sounds starts, and it crashes. It gives me the screen to choose whether to boot in safe mode...etc. I try and try, but it will not boot into Windows at all (this happened the other day). I unhooked the battery, plugged in the AC and it gives me the same screen, but this time when I choose "boot windows normally" It boots fine. Then I plug the battery back in, and unplug the AC. (By the way, I also try MediaDirect, which I had just repaired last night, before I plugged in the AC and it didn't work either). So my dad is checking out the laptop, and we open MediaCenter and after looking at a few items, the laptop shuts off and immediately comes back on (this is what it did before I ended up reformatting...multiple times). After that "crash" I leave it on battery power for a few hours, running SuperPi, Viewing videos and photos from within MediaCenter, defragging the hard drive, etc. It runs fine. Finally I turn it off, and press the MediaDirect button again. It gives me some messae about not starting properly or something, and says something about deleting the restore partition, or something else. I had read the day before about people having to go through some delete process after MediaDirect repair, so I chose the delete option and moved on... it worked nicely. Hasn't crashed since.

    So my question is, could something be wrong with the battery (forcing me to get a warranty replacement) or was it just that MediaDirect wigged out on me? Does anyone know?

    Thanks in advance for any help!
     
  2. 05Edge

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    Bump... No One Knows?
     
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    I dought its the battery could be media direct
     
  4. 05Edge

    05Edge Notebook Consultant

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    you don't think that maybe the battery has a bad cell or soemthing that would make it shut off, then maybe reconnect and turn right back on? I don't know. I just hope it doesn't keep happening.
     
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    40 views and no one else has any thought on this? Am I unique with this problem?
     
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    DCSE_1234 Notebook Geek

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    Ok, if you were having a bad battery the led codes on it would tell you... I really doubt it's a battery issue......
     
  7. 05Edge

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    What LED codes? If it was the battery, I thought maybe a short, inside? What made me suspect the battery is that it worked fine with the battery out, on AC power. What would make it do that? I'm sorry, I'm new to Laptops. I'm decent with computers... normally, but this thing has had me perplexed!