Originally Posted By: hybrid8
WTF? Neither of the shutdowns waited long enough for anything to cool down. The only thing I can think of is that with a quick shut down there's still data in the memory that isn't getting cleared.

That phenomenon was in the news last year -- it can take *minutes* for the DRAM capacitors to drain. Apparently governments use this "feature" to extract data (such as hard drive crypto keys) from the RAM of recently powered-off notebooks.

-ml