[ltp] Dead T21- help!

[Crispian Thorne]

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Crispian Thorne wrote:
> I hope someone out there can help me! I went to start up my faithful T21
> (Mepis) this evening for the first time in a week or so, and it's dead.
> All that happens is a flash of the hard drive light as I push the power
> button, otherwise nothing- no drive noise, nothing on the screen- nothing.
> 
> I tried the dodge of removing all the power and batteries and holding
> down the power button for 2 minutes- didn't help.

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OK, slightly less panicked now! Guess I didn't remove all the batteries.
'Cos after scaring myself by reading online that this kind of problem
indicates either burnt out memory sockets or a dead system board I
realized I hadn't tried removing and re-seating the cmos battery. So I
did- and lo-and-behold it started right up. I had to go into the bios
and reset the hard drive as boot #1, but it seems fine (touch wood).

So the lesson children is to sit back and count to ten and make sure
you've thought of everything before you go bothering the nice people on
the linux-thinkpad list for nothing :)

Just to be on the safe side I'm gonna replace the cmos battery- anyone
know of a good US source?

- --
Crispian Thorne
linux@crispian.org
*linux & lovin' it*
Linux User # 329400
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