Reply To: EZBook 3 Pro – Life after death?

[Brad]

Well for anyone curious about this bizarre ordeal… Now that it seemed to “come back from the dead” I connected it to an external monitor and yes it’s booting up Windows and working fine!  Some monkeying around with my rEFInd boot manager multi-boot config and I got it to now show the bootup Jumper logo splash screen and rEFInd bootup menu so I can now choose to boot up into either Windows, Manjaro, or Linux Mint.
So everything is working now except the screen is still broken (cracked – my fault). So it now becomes a desktop-only system.  Better than nothing I suppose.  What a bizarre thing though.  How could this happen?  3 months sitting unplugged has discharged some kind of long term config in NVRAM or battery supplying juice to the BIOS chip?
I don’t need another desktop machine, but I guess I will keep it as a backup machine if my current notebook stops working.
One thing is for sure. I will not ever put it into “hibernate” mode in Linux again… the last thing I remember doing before it originally died on me.

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