Me thinks you were luvky to track it down at all!!



"Peter Wilkins" <wilkinsp_nospam@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message 
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I have been having problems with my Toshiba P20 laptop turning off
unexpectedly, almost always when recording from my digital TV PCMCIA
card.  I could find no problem with the system.

It got very frustrating, turning off in the middle of recording the
Torino Olympics Ice Skating pairs, so I lost the recording.

It got even more frustrating sitting there looking at the switched off
computer, when all of a sudden, it switched itself on again, all by
itself.  Impossible, I yelled!  Wife was watching the same show on the
big LCD TV (I was recording it so she could watch it again later) and
said she had just pressed the "mute" button on the TV remote to
silence the ads - could that be it? she asked.  Smart woman.
No way, said I, I had disabled the TV PCMCIA card remote.

I was wrong (again).  The TV mute button WAS the problem.  I had
disabled the TV PCMCIA card remote but I hadn't disabled the laptop
remote (I had forgotten it existed as I never use it).  A quick check
showed that the LCD TV remote "mute" button was the same as the
"On-Off" button on the laptop remote. One press on the mute, the
computer turned off. Another press on the mute, the computer turned on
again.  We hadn't picked it up before as it didn't always happen -
only when the TV remote was pointed at the computer, which was in the
next room.

I cant turn the laptop remote on-off function off completely, only
change it to standby or hibernate, so now I have to tape over the IR
window when the wife is watching TV and I am computing.

Why oh why isn't there some standardisation in the codes used for each
function?
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Regards,
Peter Wilkins