From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:13:13 GMT, Big Bill wrote:   
      
   > It turned itself off in the night, first time ever. It tried to turn   
   > itself back on but got stuck on the Foxconn screen, which didn't   
   > respond to the keyboard at all.   
   > A warm boot got it running again, at least for a time, then it   
   > switched itself off again.   
   > So, it won't turn on properly from a cold boot, it freezes on the   
   > Foxconn screen, but a warm boot from there produces that reassuring   
   > hard drive beep and the HD light flashes, and up she comes. For a bit,   
   > anyway. That worked a few times, then it started going back to the   
   > Foxconn screen before it had fully come up, and then die if I left it.   
   > Now it just reboots to the Foxconn screen several times, then dies.   
   > Interesting, huh? I'm hoping this isn't the hard drive...   
   >   
   > Ideas please people! Meanwhile I'm going to pull it out from under the   
   > desk and blow some compressed air into it to clean it out.   
      
   Safe mode?   
      
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