Penny Headaches...

Well, still too much tech stuff, but...

This is actually a bit different.  I'm not on the Macs right now, but on the Panasonic Toughbook CF-29, which has been giving me fits as of late.  It takes forever get past the Panasonic "splash screen" before booting up WinXP.  (Tells you how old this thing is, doesn't it?)  And putting it into Standby mode is a one-way ticket to complete narcolepsy.  It simply won't wake up.

The only thing I can say is that I was having no problems prior to testing the DVD drive on battery a bit back.  The battery, of course, drained almost instantly, so I shut down DVD player software, ejected the disk, shut the system down, and hooked up the power cord.  Since then, the Media Package power indicator has stayed on, and I started having "the troubles."

Nice searches via Google give me nothing, beyond vague references to "resetting the system parameters."  So, I booted the thing up, hit F2, then did F9, and let it reboot.  The progress bar at the Panasonic screen went a bit further than it has been going, then sat again for about a minute, before jumping into booting the OS.  I've run DSKCHK just for the Hades of it, and found nothing.  I'm just about the check the narcolepsy, but I don't hold out hope...

I am reminded, once again, (just as I was a while back when Norton Internet Security annihilated itself during an "upgrade" on my Toshiba) why I switched to Mac.  I generally don't have these problems on those systems.  I just have problems like "the Cube doesn't like the KVM switch", or somesuch.  IF you have a real problem with a Mac, it's generally nuclear, and and that system isn't coming back any time soon.  (I, thankfully, haven't had one of those.  Yet.)

If these nagging, just on the cusp of unusable, problems continue with this system.  I may be testing just how rugged an old Toughbook really is...  It may go nuclear...