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    Restarts on shutdown

    Quick help needed.

    Anyone experienced this before? Tell the laptop to shutdown or sleep or hibernate, and it will go through the motion, then turn back on instantly as if the power button is pressed.

    Tried it without the power switch connected and without a keyboard.

    Hopefully unrelated but some of the keys don't work - tried a few other keyboards and still the same. Last night it started working out of nowhere, then stopped again.

    Customer is insisting it wasn't like this when it came to me. I know that to be rubbish but what can you do!? Fully expect it to need a new mobo.

    Dell Inspiron 1545. About to test with a live CD.
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    #2
    Re: Restarts on shutdown

    Gave in and stripped it down - Liquid damage. Typical! That's the power issue sorted, if only I could suss out the damn keyboard.

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      #3
      Re: Restarts on shutdown

      Love it. This laptop had been to a proper "repair shop" who replaced the hard drive.

      With a faulty hard drive.

      They didn't spot the clear liquid damage on the PCMCIA board causing a power loop.

      They told the guy they had "forgot" to replace the keyboard when requested, however the keyboard is clearly marked on the back "Dell 1545 TESTED OK", so it's had a second hand keyboard. They replaced it with a faulty keyboard. Awesome.

      They also forgot to put the screws in to hold the harddrive in place.

      Love the quality of work around here.

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        #4
        Re: Restarts on shutdown

        Originally posted by artois7 View Post
        (...) proper "repair shop" (...)
        and 'smart' customers are everywhere

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          #5
          Re: Restarts on shutdown

          Originally posted by artois7 View Post
          Gave in and stripped it down - Liquid damage. Typical!
          Lucky that it didn't cause laptop-death-with-squealing-adapter-syndrome.
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            #6
            Re: Restarts on shutdown

            You should see how many pros are in london. LOL
            Just cook it! It's already broken.

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              #7
              Re: Restarts on shutdown

              Originally posted by RJARRRPCGP View Post
              Lucky that it didn't cause laptop-death-with-squealing-adapter-syndrome.
              Definitely.

              Fortunately, the liquid damage was local to just the PCMCIA board, which is a separate daughterboard on the dell 1545. Removed it entirely. Didn't need a replacement.

              The keyboard was purely just the keyboard - small snag in the ribbon. The two other keyboards that had similar symptoms were also damaged!

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                #8
                Re: Restarts on shutdown

                The dell 1525 and 1545 series without the dedicated GPU are robust ones. They can survive most liquid damage if you clean them up. I had one water damage dell 1545 laptop which was completely dead. The next two days I just tried to power it on again with AC and it came on (resuming from hibernate). Even the keyboard survived despite that moist damp smell. The screen background had watermarks but it worked anyway.

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