Dale F. Victor wrote: > 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 > > My two cents: This sounds like my last two failures of my corporate laptops, both times it was the hard drive. Got a knoppix disk you can boot from? That will at least tell you the motherboard and the power supply are OK.
Glenn _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
