Death of a laptop?

[TruthSeeker]

I just got a hard drive/enclosure to use as a back up. I plugged it into my laptop this morning. It made a few strange beeps and then the laptop died - turned off. I thought it was just shut down but it will not turn on. :eye-poppi

I was trying to be good! To back things up! What strange game of irony are the computer gods playing with me?

Is there any hope? What should I do?

Thanks!

[mortimer]

Try taking the battery out of the laptop for a minute or so.

[TruthSeeker]

It is resurrected! And it didn't even take three days.

But seems very sluggish.

Fortunately, one of the tech guys at work can take a look at it this morning. Hopefully, he will be able to perform his usual magic.

Thanks, Mortimer.

[TruthSeeker]

Well, he saved everything from my laptop to the server, so I have a backup. That's good.

He thinks the laptop will remain sluggish and eventually die because of some electrical loop or something (that probably doesn't make sense but that's how I understood it).

He said he could reformat and reinstall everything but that might only buy me a few more months of life. Probably not worth his efforts/time.