[ltp] Dead R51

[The Man From Utopia]

> On Sunday 07 May 2006 07:01, Andrew Barr wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:40 +0000, Hunter Fuller wrote:
>>> I learnt this trick from IBM. Yank your battery and AC adaptor, and
>>> hold down the power button for two minutes. Let go, and plug in the
>>> battery and AC adapter. Now try.
>>
>> I cannot express how grateful I am for that tip! I did as you said =20
>> and
>> now it has fired up four times without incident. It seems almost too
>> good to be true but there it is...thank you, again, very much.
>
> How does this work?   i.e. What does it do?
It completely drains the notebook's capacitors, thereby removing ALL =20
electricity. I'm not sure what effect this has, but it has to be some =20
sort of electronics that don't ever shut off normally (the power =20
management I would presume) that need resetting.
> Does this tip work for all ThinkPads?
Has on all that I've tried it on (some X series notebooks [forget =20
which], R40, R51, R52).
>

Old tech trick. Learned it from an IBM tech helping me with a bricked =
365XD.
So far it works from the 360 series laptop to resent day.=20