[ltp] Very dead looking R40

[Tony Whitmore]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:21:33PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > Hi Christopher, thanks for the reply. I don't have easy access to a
> > voltmeter,
> The neighbourhood electician or auto-electician perhaps?

Perhaps. I might be able to "borrow" one from work.

> > but have tried another known working ThinkPad charger (same 
> > model) with no results. (My other half also has a ThinkPad.)
> Well that proves it.

That's what I thought. :(

> > > Too low a voltage would explain the non-working R40, otoh if the voltage
> > > is a lot higher than 16 this could have damaged the machine.
> >
> > I'm not sure why that would explain why it doesn't turn on when the
> > batteries are inserted and the charger isn't. The batteries were fully
> > charged when it was shut down and would normally give over 3 hours
> > run-time.
> It would not, I agree. Your computer couldn't have had an over exciting affair 
> with a thunderstorm could it?

Possible I suppose, although the laptop was networked wirelessly. The only 
physical connection would have been the charger.

> Mine did and I am now stuck with a non-functioning LAN port. 
> So I have taken everybody's advice and got a PCMCIA NIC. So now this 'dongle' 
> thing dangles out of the PCMCIA slot and we are on 10% network speed. :-(
> I think I'll get an extended warrenty on the next machine I buy. Please don't 
> mention horses, doors and bolts in the same sentence. :-)
>  
> btw, If in the fullness of time you find yourself in possession of a totally 
> useless system board which would otherwise end up in the dump, I'd very much 
> like to be able to buy it off you for spare parts.

I'd have thought that the motherboard was likely to be the part that was 
damaged. But unless I can fix it, I'll let you know...

Tony