Suspend and shutdown problem

[croon]

Hello everybody,

I have a toshiba equium l40-i14, with windows vista and peppermint os.

The laptop shuts down when I click on shutdown from the user drop down menu or in a terminal, then restarts again on its own. It stays shut only if I keep the power button pressed or unplug the cable.

If I want to put it into suspend, it seems to go to sleep, then resumes onto a completely black screen. From there nothing works, there is no cursor, no mouse pointer, no keys do anything and I have to forcefully shut it down.

The BIOS are ok. Wake up on LAN, keyboard and mouse are disabled. Ethtool shows wake up LAN options are disabled. Tried booting and shutting down while in the recovery mode.

Same problems with vista - does this mean it's hardware?

Thanks for any reply.

[howefield]

Thread moved to the "Other OS/Distro Talk" forum.

[offgridguy]

Have you tried using Log off prior to shutdown?

[croon]

Yes, I logged out before shutting / suspending, to no avail.

[offgridguy]

Yes, I logged out before shutting / suspending, to no avail.

This does sound more like hardware, as both OS are affected.
I would recommend starting a new thread in Hardware. Sorry I can't help more.

[croon]

Offgridguy: I found out it's a power issue, it only happens on ac power, not on battery. Took me a while because the battery is dead so I had to borrow one for the test. Thank you very much anyway!

[offgridguy]

Offgridguy: I found out it's a power issue, it only happens on ac power, not on battery. Took me a while because the battery is dead so I had to borrow one for the test. Thank you very much anyway!

Now that you mention it i have read other threads in the forum that had the same issue
with ac power, forgot about it till now.