[ltp] A21p won't boot

[Justin C]

On Monday 24 December 2001 08:00, you wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Justin C 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.
>
> Go into the bios and see what bootable devices are selected. Also, I have
> experienced the weird situation where the thinkpad wouldn't boot at all
> unless I removed the battery, but since you've got a bios prompt, I don't
> think that's what you're experiencing. You might also try a boot disk.
>
I can't, it won't get that far. It won't do anything other than splash the 
IBM logo and the F1 bios prompt onto the screen, I can hit F1 until I'm blue 
but nothing will happen because it won't move to the next stage - the POST.

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