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    <title>bios &amp;mdash; Erik I</title>
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    <description>My public writing. You can reach me at @eitland@mstdn.io </description>
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      <title>Early morning and a PC that wouldn&#39;t boot </title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Today my PC wouldn&#39;t boot when I woke up. That is it wouldn&#39;t boot my KDE Neon at least. !--more--Windows booted fine, to the degree that anything Windows does can ever be considered fine ).&#xA;&#xA;For some reason I doubted that my Linux was messed up so after I tried rebooting a couple of times I decided to power my laptop completely down. Problem is the battery isn&#39;t exactly easy to detach so my normal procedure of turning off, unplugging, removing the battery and pushing the power button wasn&#39;t available.&#xA;&#xA;Luckily, and here comes the only useful part of this post: I was aware of a BIOS setting where I can disable the battery temporarily.&#xA;&#xA;So I entered BIOS   Power   Disable battery and BIOS informed me that it would shut down my PC and disable the battery until next time I connected the charger.&#xA;&#xA;After the PC was turned off this way I pressed the power button a couple of times to be really sure, reconnected and pressed the button. And then it booted.&#xA;&#xA;() OK, partly joking here, I dislike Windows a lot less that I used to : )&#xA;&#xA;Filed under #stupidPCrepairs, #linux, #bios and #lenovoyoga15 : )]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today my PC wouldn&#39;t boot when I woke up. That is it wouldn&#39;t boot my KDE Neon at least. Windows booted fine, to the degree that anything Windows does can ever be considered fine *).</p>

<p>For some reason I doubted that my Linux was messed up so after I tried rebooting a couple of times I decided to power my laptop completely down. Problem is the battery isn&#39;t exactly easy to detach so my normal procedure of turning off, unplugging, removing the battery and pushing the power button wasn&#39;t available.</p>

<p>Luckily, and here comes the only useful part of this post: I was aware of a BIOS setting where I can disable the battery temporarily.</p>

<p>So I entered BIOS &gt; Power &gt; Disable battery and BIOS informed me that it would shut down my PC and disable the battery until next time I connected the charger.</p>

<p>After the PC was turned off this way I pressed the power button a couple of times to be really sure, reconnected and pressed the button. And then it booted.</p>

<p>(*) OK, partly joking here, I dislike Windows a lot less that I used to : )</p>

<p>Filed under <a href="https://erik.itland.no/tag:stupidPCrepairs" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">stupidPCrepairs</span></a>, <a href="https://erik.itland.no/tag:linux" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">linux</span></a>, <a href="https://erik.itland.no/tag:bios" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">bios</span></a> and <a href="https://erik.itland.no/tag:lenovoyoga15" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">lenovoyoga15</span></a> : )</p>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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