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For some reason, every few seconds the WiFi light flashes. Anybody have
any idea how I can completely disable WiFi? (If it were up to me, I
would have purchased a laptop that doesn't *have* WiFi, but for some
reason that appears to be impossible...)
Specifically, I'd like to make absolutely sure it can't connect to any
networks of any kind, and that it isn't wasting battery power trying.
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Mmm, OK. It just seemed to take an absurdly long time to do whatever it
> was doing. (And nailing the HD while it was doing it.)
Since the test of the HD takes about 15 seconds here, I'm expecting your
laptop was doing other things during the test (like building search indexes)
or was swapping.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> For some reason, every few seconds the WiFi light flashes. Anybody have
> any idea how I can completely disable WiFi?
Disabling it in Network Connections doesn't do the trick?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:29:09 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>For some reason, every few seconds the WiFi light flashes. Anybody have
>any idea how I can completely disable WiFi? (If it were up to me, I
>would have purchased a laptop that doesn't *have* WiFi, but for some
>reason that appears to be impossible...)
>
>Specifically, I'd like to make absolutely sure it can't connect to any
>networks of any kind, and that it isn't wasting battery power trying.
You should find the answer in the manual.
You could disable it in the Device Manager
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Regards
Stephen
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>> For some reason, every few seconds the WiFi light flashes. Anybody
>> have any idea how I can completely disable WiFi?
>
> Disabling it in Network Connections doesn't do the trick?
Seems to work.
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> You should find the answer in the manual.
*manual*?! o_O
(Well, in fairness, there was a sheet of paper telling me how to insert
the battery and turn it on...)
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>> Mmm, OK. It just seemed to take an absurdly long time to do whatever
>> it was doing. (And nailing the HD while it was doing it.)
>
> Since the test of the HD takes about 15 seconds here, I'm expecting your
> laptop was doing other things during the test (like building search
> indexes) or was swapping.
I reran it and timed it. 4 minutes in total. (Interestingly, when you
rerun it, it actually *tells you* what it's doing! Mostly 3D tests...)
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On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:31:59 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> You should find the answer in the manual.
>
>*manual*?! o_O
>
Yes.
>(Well, in fairness, there was a sheet of paper telling me how to insert
>the battery and turn it on...)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Invisible wrote:
> I reran it and timed it. 4 minutes in total. (Interestingly, when you
> rerun it, it actually *tells you* what it's doing! Mostly 3D tests...)
And if you change hardware, it runs it at the next reboot, in console mode.
I have to believe it drives the programmers of these things nuts to have so
many different environments to write this code in. :-)
There's also screensavers or some such that run the tests.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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>> I reran it and timed it. 4 minutes in total. (Interestingly, when you
>> rerun it, it actually *tells you* what it's doing! Mostly 3D tests...)
>
> And if you change hardware, it runs it at the next reboot, in console
> mode.
O RLY?
> I have to believe it drives the programmers of these things nuts
> to have so many different environments to write this code in. :-)
Heh, yeah...
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