[ltp] The dead 600, redux

[Ken Restivo]

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Well I ordered that TP600 to replace the TP600E that got doused.

It was on ebay, it was cheap, it was easy. I bought it. It arrived. No hard drive, CD-ROM, and only 32MB of RAM, but I had all those from the old/wet 600E anyway.

I plug in a CDROM drive. The machine powers up! Yippie!

Then I shut it down, take out the CDROM, and plug in a hard drive. BEEP BOOP. Uh oh. No see hard drive. The BIOS is giving me the "feed me" graphic (looks a lot like an old Macintosh, when it does that..). 

I shutdown and plug in a different hard drive. BEEP BOOP. I try the F1, Initialize trick. Nope. Dammit! I try upgrading the BIOS to the latest. Upgrade goes well, but still no hard drive. I try both the CDROM *and* a hard drive. Nope. At this point, I'm flailing helplessly, doing superstitious things. I've no idea what's wrong, but I suspect I bought a boat anchor.

Well at least now I know why the thing was so cheap. That is, maybe disposably cheap to most folks, but I'm impoverished. I spent my last few dollars on this thing. The CD-ROM seems to work fine, but I can't get any known-working hard drives to be recognised by the BIOS. Very, very upsetting. No machine left, no money left, no nothing. Just a bunch of useless junk.

This is a 2645-51U made in 09/98.

Any ideas? 

- -ken
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