[ltp] The dead 600, redux

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

Say, ebay offers 3d party warranties for electronics.  I don't have the
link in front of me, but maybe you can buy this and apply it to get the
machine fixed.

If you can't find the link on ebay (in general - the seller may not have
mentioned it on the page) let me know and I'll track it.

Bret

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 00:57, Ken Restivo 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.
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> I plug in a CDROM drive. The machine powers up! Yippie!
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> 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..). 
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This is a 2645-51U made in 09/98.
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> Any ideas? 
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