[ltp] The dead 600, redux

[j_f_clark]

As you seem to have nothing to lose.  You might see if you can determine 
whether or not you can cannabilize the pieces needed for you old machine 
from the boat anchor you just procured.  If I recall you seem to have had a 
problem with a power supply or something similar.  Perhaps between the two 
machines you have enough good parts to come up with one working machine.

Joe Clark

At 09:57 PM 7/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:
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>Well I ordered that TP600 to replace the TP600E that got doused.
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>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?
>
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