GPD User Community Support Forum

Repeatedly pressing Power button to post

#1

Hi,

We have a report that the power key is needing to be pressed repeatedly to turn the device on.

UPDATE: GPD Official advice is when turning laptop on from cold boot press and hold power but for 1-2 seconds and release. Issue is resolved.

From [addis n] IGG

I need click power button for few times to boot up the system when it is unplugged. Is anyone have the same issue?

I can see the fan is on when I click the power button for the first time. Then, the fan will stop after a while and nothing will continuous. I need to press the power button few times to boot up the system.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue and is there any known fix or resolution please?

Thanks

#2

Mine does the same thing

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#3

In my experience, I need to press the button at least half a second or so for the device to turn on. I never need to do it more than once. Using bios 0.21.

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#4

Great thanks Milly.

@Xem can you please retest with bios 0.21 as described by Milly and post back here. Thank you.

#5

GPD has replied to [stephen ong] at IGG:
The power button is not the standard notebook and desktop. For this embedded processor, the power button should be pressed for 1~2 seconds and then released, because the power-on process takes hundreds of milliseconds.

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#6

@takesa506
Thanks very much. I was thinking of marking this resolved yesterday to be honest.

#7

That is right. I also do the same to turn on with one click. Press the power key for 1 second or so.

#8