[ltp] A21p won't boot

[Justin C]

On Thursday 27 December 2001 17:55, you wrote:
>
> Usually thats a symptom of bad ram, or bad motherboard, BUT its possible
> esp in laptops for a short in a peripheral to cause problems like that.
> However the fact that it puts up the splash screen says to me that its able
> to execute the bios entrypoint, so the processor is initializing and
> talking to the bios and the video subsystem. My experience is that at that
> point if you have NO useable RAM in your machine, then the system gets hung
> because it can't run POST. Desktop machines will beep at that point.
> Definitely try removing and reinserting RAM (if your machine makes it
> reasonably
> accessible). Sometimes DIMMS get loose or slightly corroded. You can clean
> the contacts on them with a pencil eraser and then replace them.
>
All peripherals removed and both RAM chips swapped round... perhaps I'll try 
neither and one at a time....... nope, still nothing, time to give 'em a call 
I think.

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