Re: "snow" on a Thinkpad T42 display & external monitor

[Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/13/07, qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Instead of overnight, what if you power up after only 30 seconds?
> ...after 10 minutes? How much time does it take before snow starts
> to clear under different circumstances?


Power up after 30 seconds would be no different than normal reboot.  I can't
recall whether I've ever had this laptop powered off for more than an hour
in the past several months, so I would have to test this to know for
certain.  In the end, I'm not sure it matters other than to satisfy
curiosity, as I'm sure my employer would just as soon replace it than try to
fix it, or more accurately, spend money to have it repaired.

I.e., capacitance, inductance, thermal expansion/contraction,
> various things can change over time. What changes, along with both
> quality and quantity of change, can be checked in different ways.
> Physical clues go a long way towards narrowing problems down.


Just *what* is it you guys do at PowerTech anyway?  I didn't think
electrical engineering was your specialty.  I guess the name fits, doesn't
it?  ;-)

(BTW, I won a PowerTech shirt at a conference a few months ago.)

- Dan