[techtalk] cracked-out laptop

[Chris Hargens]

As someone has already suggested, try popping out the battery and trying.  Also try popping out the CMOS batter, normally under the larger battery, and leaving the machine unplugged, and both batteries out for a few seconds.  The laptops I support have a tendency to corrupt the CMOS on really bad crashes.

Chris Hargens
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kristen 
  To: techtalk at linuxchix.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:06 AM
  Subject: [techtalk] cracked-out laptop


  Hello. Have a bit of a problem with a laptop. I turned it on last night and it didnt turn on. So I left it there with the powercord in it (it was in when I originally turned on the machine the first time) and went to sleep. Woke up the next morning its not on. The very next day, the thing is on. It made an attempt to boot but didnt even get passed BIOS and I cant turn the thing off.
  I am thinking that there is a loose wire in there somewhere and perhaps is not communicating with the power supply and the harddrive. I am probly going to take the laptop apart and look around, however I am a bit scared to do so because I have never sen the inside of a laptop and I am not sure what to expect. Is it pretty much just like a regular desktop only smaller? Is it interchangable? What can I expect, and does anyone know what might be causing this laptop to do funky stuffs?
  -katneko
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