On 2014-11-28 16:51, vixsomnis wrote:
On November 28, 2014 9:08:16 AM EST, Rasmus Liland wrote:
It is dead.
Yesterday, as I tried to suspend to ram using systemd on old working kernel, supending did not work completely.
So I tried moving up to new kernel 3.17.something to see if things worked out better there; as now I was more optimistic, since e.g. chrony were syncing the rtc based on statistical methods and not only NTP protocol.
Suspend to ram was able to complete with new kernel, and everything was good for a while -- Until yesterday when I suspended on very low battery and after that I think the battery went flat during suspend. This has not been a problem in the past, but when I tried to charge the laptop afterwards, the charge LED did not light up even though the light on the charger said it was active.
So, no power connection there, thus I guess most parts of the system are still working as before, something related to the delivery of power is broken -- probably a capasitor of some sort or other things that wear out over time, I have little knowledge on this, but I guess if this was a desktop I would probably swap the power supply unit for a fresh one.
Honestly, I was hoping this laptop would last me at least four years of intensive everyday use, as the price tag was quite high.
I am going to try to email the vendor to try to get a decent refund, as I think Norwegean law permits a three-year-warranty on consumer electronics, no matter what the Samsung company says.
Have you done memtests? It could also be a failing drive.
You should probably make a bootable mentest86 drive and run a full test.
I am not able to boot the laptop at all as the battery is unable to consume power from the charger, thus I am not even able to run memtests as I am not able to boot anything, even entering bios is not possible. Nothing -- it has become a brick ... -- Rasmus Liland, jrl@jrl.dyndns.dk, jens.rasmus.liland@nmbu.no