A little off topic but I hope someone can shed some light

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:16 AM, Matt Anderson wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
> <mailto:christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>> wrote:
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>     On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:08 AM, Matt Anderson wrote:
>      > I have an HP Pavilion Notebook model 6324US.
>      > The machine will not reboot.  What I mean by this, it shuts off,
>     powers
>      > back up, but never even gets to the BIOS stuff.
>      > I have to turn it off.  Close the lid, wait various amounts of time
>      > before it will start again.
>      > Now, I'm running 10.04.1 very successfully so there are not a lot of
>      > time I have to restart, but non the less, it is VERY frustrating!
>
>     I'd say hardware. Time to send it off to the repair shop.
>
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> Well, every hardware test I can find, does not find any issues at all.....
> I have eliminated heat by the way as the precipitating factor.

Hahaha, you must have been reading my mind or something because I had 
heat way up there before I decided to drop it. If it was a desktop, I'd 
be looking for blown capacitors.