[ltp] T41 hangs in BIOS indefinitely

[Bert Haskins]

I had a problem like that on a A31.
The problem was a almost new Seagate hard drive.
Try removing the hard drive and then booting to the F1 screen.
It may take up to a minute or so because it takes the bios
quite a long time to figure out that the hard drive is missing (dah).


Leon Brokken wrote:

>Hey list,
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>as the title says, when my T41 (23738RG) starts up, it doesn't get further than the very first glimp of the IBM Thinkpad logo and Intel propaganda in the corner. It doesn't even reach normal brightness. The fan keep humming and only power and battery LEDs are on. When I press F1 the text "Entering BIOS utility" appears but that's it, nothing else happens.
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>What lead to this dreadful state? I was playing around with a wireless mini PCI card (non-IBM ipw2915abg). In order to escape IBM's whitelist one should rewrite the EEPROM with corrected Subsystem ID. I know this can be a tricky operation, but because I had problems to patch the ipw2200 driver I never even reached the risky point to write to the card!
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>In the normal situation, when the laptop boots with the card inserted it stops the boot proces and complains about an unrecognised card. So, the trick is to boot to the Lilo menu and pause, then insert the card, and continue booting. Everything worked fine that way! I inserted and removed the card a few times like this.
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>But then out of the blue I get the BIOS hang...
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>I am desperate!!! Please tell me there's a trick to fix this?!
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>Cheers, Leon.
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