[ltp] Thinkpad 770 will not boot

[William Lueders]

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Bill,

I haven't seen it suggested but the first thing I would have suspected 
would be the CMOS battery.  It is easy to change in the 770, just remove 
the old button batt and go to radio shack and get another.  Give it a try.

At 10:42 PM 2/16/04, Harry Mangalam wrote:

>Thanks Bill, interesting approach - never heard of this one before..  But 
>no go.
>
>Just sits there with cooling fan going (so the MB is getting power to SOME 
>components), but no disk spinup, no power to eject a CD, no IBM THINKPAD 
>splash screen, etc.  Seem that something is dead.  Maybe it's time to part 
>it out for ebay..
>
>hjm
>
>
>Bill Hudacek wrote:
>>IIRC, back in the day my 770 wouldn't boot into setup unless you held the 
>>F1 key BEFORE you turned it on, and I usually kept it pressed until I 
>>received my boot password prompt.
>>Maybe that'll let you reset to defaults, "initialize the system board", 
>>or run system tests.
>
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