[ltp] A21p won't boot

[Tod Harter]

Well, the standard trouble-shooting procedure would be to first remove the 
battery and AC power, let it sit for 5 mins, see what happens then. Next I'd 
check and make sure the hardware is undamaged and correctly connected, check 
for loose SODIMMS, hard drives, etc. Remove anything you can from Ultrabay 
slots, PCMCIA, etc. If you have another similar machine you could try 
swapping things between them. If all that fails to have any positive effect, 
then you may have a more serious problem. You could try cracking it open to 
see what you can find out. There could be a loose cable/connector or chip. 
Try reseating any socketted chips, etc. As a user thats about as far as you 
can go in debugging, but definitely try to boot off various devices, and get 
into the bios setup screen if you can, maybe something in there will give you 
a clue (or maybe just resetting the bios to defaults will help). 

On Monday 24 December 2001 11:02, you wrote:
> I shut down my ThinkPad at 1.30 this morning and it seemed to shut down
> fine (not that I really watch what is going on). I turned it on this
> morning and it only got as far as the IBM splash screen, the one that says
> 'Press F1 for IBM Bios Setup Utility' (if you have it enabled). It won't
> POST, it won't do anything else.
>
> Usually it moves on pretty quickly to the password screen but it's just
> sitting there.
>
> Any ideas as to what may have gone wrong? I know this isn't a Linux thing
> but it's probably the biggest group of tech-savvy ThinkPad users there is.
> If anyone can help me here I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks.
>
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