[CS-FSLUG] Locked Up Laptop - Can't Reboot

[Tim Young]

The standard thing to reboot a laptop is to hold down the power button 
for 10 seconds.

- Tim Young

Don Parris wrote:

>Is pulling the battery an acceptable method for un-locking a frozen
>laptop?  That was the only thing I could do.  I'm working on getting
>wireless up and running on my laptop, running Ubuntu 5.10.
>
>I am playing with a Linksys wireless G PCMCIA card, and thought I had
>finally succeeded in getting my card to connect to the router - it was
>the first time the link light on the wlan card lit up at all.  I made
>a change to the security settings, which caused the light to flash a
>few times, and then my screen froze completely.  No keyboard or mouse
>access at all.  The one disadvantage of laptops is the lack of a reset
>button.
>
>Any other options?
>
>Don
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