You can easily eliminate a hard drive problem by removing the hard drive, and booting it up. It should get to a "Missing operating system" or similar message. Not sure if that's been tried already.. -wes
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Dale F. Victor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Sorry I was not plain, I do get excited. > > The battery is fine, I know that. > > The hard drive could be bad. > > It does not run long enough to get into the bios. I tried. > > Any thing more, I really want this to work. > > Thanks, > > Dale > > > On Friday 24 July 2009 6:34:25 pm Larry W wrote: > > Dale F. Victor wrote: > > > After it died I tried again and it > > > almost went as long as this last time. I took out the battery and tried > > > it again and it tried, but no go. > > > > Are you saying that with the battery removed there was nothing at all? > > What is the measured output voltage of the battery? What is the > > measured output voltage of the power supply? Your symptoms are similar > > to another laptop I've encountered, and the problem was low output on > > the power supply. > > > > Larry > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
