On Sunday 19 July 2009 12:25:31 am Bill Barry wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Dale F. Victor<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 17 July 2009 10:25:46 am Bill Barry wrote: > >> What is the evidence that it is really the motherboard and not the power > >> supply or the fan or something else? > > > > All I have to go by is what people tell me. A company up north (I forget > > their name) said they repaired it by doing something to the bios. I got > > the computer back and it worked twice and then the old problem was back. > > I callled them and was told to take the battery out. This worked once. > > Do you mean that you took the battery out and put it back in and > booted, or just left the battery out and booted without it? If you > haven't done that, it would be worth trying, just take the battery out > and boot with just the wall wart, it could be a bad battery problem. > > > When the computer turns off it does so before anything comes to the > > screen. > > So you can't get to the bios. That's too bad. Does it beep? No it does not get that far. > It could well be a motherboard problem, but it still might be some > kind of power problem. The battery could be causing problems, or the > wall wart is in trouble or ?, and as soon as the system needs a little > more power during the boot, like for spinning up the hard disk, it > kicks off. Do you hear the hard disk start spinning? It immediately makes a noise but I do not know if it is the hard drive or the fan, or both as it does move air. I bought a new power brick and a new battery and that changed nothing. I just tried to start it up as it has been some time and it actually makes noise for about 2 - 3 seconds before it shuts down, turns off. This is on wall power with the new brick and the battery out of the machine.
Thanks for sticking with me. Dale > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
