[ltp] TP 600 dies of neglect and loneliness

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:07:40 -0500


try it with the battery taken out.

On 1/27/06, cyne <think@dogtrainingthatworks.net> wrote:
>
>   Way back when I got my A20m ,  I put a new install of SimplyMepis on th=
e old
> 600, thinking I'd get around to putting it on eBay sometime.  I left it
> sitting around for about 10 months after that.   The other day I tried to
> start it up and it is DEAD.  Not just "won't boot" but it won't even turn=
 on
> when I plug it in.
>   How did a working computer turn into a doorstop just from being unused?=
  Is
> there any hope for it?
> --
> Cindy Eliason
> Whitefield, NH
> --
> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>