sorry but

[pitt1983]

sorry but shift have an anti-shock protection on hdd?

happened to me that when I "launch" my shift on the bed or i put in the bag very fast the shift turn of immediatly. when i turn on everything is ok.

i've seen something similar on a new acer travelmate.

but on the shift i don't know if this activity is normal or is a defection of my machine?

[salmon]

put it this way, when i do that my device crashes... and has to be rebooted... one reason why i'd love to change the HDD for a solid state one at some point...

[skin57]

This behaviour is normal (but a bit silly): A accelerator sensor detects an dangerous acceleration, usualy followed by an impact - in such an situation, the Shift is just powered off to protect the hard disk. When you turn the shift on again, it prompts you with an BIOS-Message "Drop detected"...

It's really a silly implementation of a shock protection: I'd have expected the hard disk to get in a safe park position, but not the shift to get powered off. Idiots at HTC. But i guess they wanted to safe license fees...

[pof]

You can disable this "feature" by disabling 'HTC G-Sensor' in vista device manager.

[pitt1983]

no, i think it can be usefull, i wanted to know to be sure that was g-sensor to turn off my shift and not a defection of it.

effectively i saw on others notebooks hdd envelopped in more rubber and other material to make it more anti-shock! but in the little shift make it is impossible.

you think that gsensor is useless?