On Wednesday 26 November 2003 1:41 am, Rajesh Saxena wrote:
This is where it gets even more weird. Once in a blue moon the keyboard and onboard mouse work and I am able to boot into either Windows or Linux and issue commands. But only for a few minutes after which the keyboard & mouse stop responding again. When this happened I was able to boot from CD and flashed the bios[1] hoping that would solve the problem but it didn't. It seems like after the first incident the fan doesn't seem to be working like it used to. The laptop starts to get really hot and then everything freezes. How could this affect the machine this way even when I'm not using linux?
My guess would be a hardware failure not related to the configuration you changed. If you can boot from some thing else, a DOS floppy would do, and if the problem is still there it is not related to any config files in linux. If however it runs fine in DOS then work on reversing the change you made. David