Unexpected Shutdown

Guys, do you think the problem could be with hibernation, because that's what my laptop is supposed to do when the battery reaches critical level.

Anyway, I changed the critical level to 15% for now, and set it so that the laptop goes into sleep mode instead.

Just tried hibernation on its own, and it works. Must be some kind of power problem... = /

richc46 said:

They seem fine to me. 60 upper limits of acceptable.

It's kind of high to me ....
Anyway...try to run Hibernate program by itself ..see if it works first..
on battery and ac charger ..

Guys, I ran hibernate on its own and it works.

About 5 minutes ago, the laptop just spontaneously turned off again and then re-started. So, nothing to do with the critical battery stuff that I was on about before.

I can only guess now that its a overheating problem or maybe a driver problem.

I'm watching this thread because my Dell Precision M4300 does not shut down properly when the battery is exhausted. This is a new thing with Windows 7; under XP Pro it hibernated properly.

Now, on restart, I get the "Windows did not shut down properly" screen. I wonder if there is something mis-coded in the shutdown sequence (which could well be vendor-specific I suppose) that causes this problem.

Anyway, since it may be related to this thread, here it is.

Well, what I have noticed with Win 7 on some of its shutdown procedures, it sometimes doesn't talk to programs properly about shutting down.

On my main system, I have noticed that it does pop up with "Should I force quit..." for some programs, then eventually it goes down.

On one Dell laptop, I saw something truly bizzare... I could not get it to shut down at all, or log off or restart short of manually doing it, and it seems that a program just simply would not let go and win7 didn't even try a force quit.

Now from what i am reading here in this thread, I am wondering if the minibook is having thermal issues and isn't processing the hibernate/shutdown as nicely as it should. You might also have to put the tolerances a little higher, depending on how fast the minibook's power is draining, as I think while it is 'checking' something else is kicking in to try and save itself in the process.

Anak said:

pain55 said:

Guys, I ran hibernate on its own and it works.

About 5 minutes ago, the laptop just spontaneously turned off again and then re-started. So, nothing to do with the critical battery stuff that I was on about before.

I can only guess now that its a overheating problem or maybe a driver problem.

From: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC - Guided Troubleshooting

STATE:
The computer restarts unexpectedly or restarts while shutdown.
GUIDANCE:
If 'Automatically restart' option is enabled, the PC will reboot automatically in the event of a very serious system error. This reboot happens too fast to record the error message for use in troubleshooting.
Disable "Automatically restart" option by performing the steps mentioned below:

1. Log on to the computer as either an administrator or the owner.
2. Click Start menu, and then click Control Panel.
3. Double click System icon.
4. Select Advanced tab, and then click Settings under ' Start up and Recovery'.
5. Uncheck the ' Automatically Restart' option under ' System failure'.

This is the HP troubleshooting link:
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC - Guided Troubleshooting

As Keiichi25 says:

Now from what i am reading here in this thread, I am wondering if the minibook is having thermal issues and isn't processing the hibernate/shutdown as nicely as it should.

As the CPU kicks in to shutdown it will create extra heat

You might also have to put the tolerances a little higher, depending on how fast the minibook's power is draining, as I think while it is 'checking' something else is kicking in to try and save itself in the process.

Here is a HP link to calibrate the 2133 battery:
HP Notebook PCs - Calibrating the Notebook Battery - c00817650 - HP Business Support Center

This link covers a wide assortment of areas to check including how the lid switch could be deffective, and shutdown the unit:
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC*-* HP Notebook PCs - Troubleshooting No LED Lights Glow During Startup or Boot - c00372748 - HP Business Support Center

Thanks for helping guys, but as I mentioned above, now it has nothing to do with the hibernation problem that I started the thread with.

I tried hibernation, and it works.

Before, I was using my laptop, it was quite hot, and it just spontaneously powered off. I think this is what happened yesterday too. So far, the problem has occured 3 times.

Any ideas guys?