[ltp] Dead R51

[Hunter Fuller]

On  06 May 2006, at 9:58 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:

> On Sunday 07 May 2006 07:01, Andrew Barr wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:40 +0000, Hunter Fuller wrote:
>>> I learnt this trick from IBM. Yank your battery and AC adaptor, and
>>> hold down the power button for two minutes. Let go, and plug in the
>>> battery and AC adapter. Now try.
>>
>> I cannot express how grateful I am for that tip! I did as you said  
>> and
>> now it has fired up four times without incident. It seems almost too
>> good to be true but there it is...thank you, again, very much.
>
> How does this work?   i.e. What does it do?
It completely drains the notebook's capacitors, thereby removing ALL  
electricity. I'm not sure what effect this has, but it has to be some  
sort of electronics that don't ever shut off normally (the power  
management I would presume) that need resetting.
> Does this tip work for all ThinkPads?
Has on all that I've tried it on (some X series notebooks [forget  
which], R40, R51, R52).
>
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