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How to force power-off of a Samsung Series 9 laptop?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202634661 views
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No, the four-second hold on the power button isn't working. The battery is built-in and not user removable. I was working on installing Fedora 15 on a new Samsung 900X3A (a very neat machine) and Linux crashed while trying to reboot. After that, nothing works. The power button does not work. Closin…

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According to this blog post the Samsung tech support confirmed that there is no way to force a reboot if the device is completely locked up. He ended up tearing it apart and unplugging the battery cable. Kernel panic isn’t typically a huge problem, …

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