[CentOS] netbook screen suddenly goes black

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:59:29PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:58:54AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:34:30PM +0300, Александр Кириллов wrote:
> > > >Can anyone of you provide further hints on what I should be looking
> > > >for or at?
> > > 
> > > Is it trying to hibernate?
> > 
> > gosh, I hope not! I was in the middle of using it, playing solitaire
> > and moving the mouse around a lot.
> > 
> I recently had the opposite problem.  I'd comback to a laptop
> I knew I had turned off and it was up and running.
> 
> Turns out the bios had a setting to automatically power up
> at 1:30 AM.  Perhaps your bios has a "shut down at ..."
> setting?
> 
> jl

thanks for the suggestion!

but I kinda doubt that's it, this has been highly rare, and doesn't do it when
e.g. I'm at work and leave it on all day.

Fred

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