[ltp] A21p won't boot

Tod Harter linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:08:38 -0500


On Thursday 27 December 2001 20:39, you wrote:

> Am I going to void my warranty? I'm happy to pull desktops and servers
> apart all day long but laptops aren't designed to have users upgrade parts
> or tinker. The machine is only 11 months old so if all else fails it'll
> have to go back and I don't want IBM to find an excuse to bill me for it's
> failure.

I suspect you would void the warranty, but that isn't always the case. I'd 
call IBM to find out. With some machines you have to be able to get into them 
to do upgrades...
>
> > but definitely try to boot off various
> > devices, and get into the bios setup screen if you can,
>
> I wish I could, at least it would have passed the POST and I'd know that
> the problem was more likely peripheral, it's starting to sound more like a
> motherboard problem all the time.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
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