[ltp] I'm concerned about my BIOS...any knowledge out there?

[Javier (a.k.a AlBundy)]

On Jan 4, 2008 11:50 PM, Dreamwander <dreamwander@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am the proud third owner of a T40p
[...]
> It runs great, except for two things, one of which i'll write another email
> about.  This email is about the fact that, all of a sudden, for a month or
> two now, the machine hangs at boot on the IBM Thinkpad bios splash screen.
> When i press the "Access IBM" button, then Esc to "resume normal boot", it
> loads Grub, grub goes through and boots either of the kernels i have going,
> and all's well.

Hi Dreamwander:
I suffered similar problems with my T23.

The cause was (i suspect) a non-perfect contact of the Ultrabay DVD reader.
The solution was to re-settle the Ultrabay, insert it a bit deeper.
Test this, and also the complementary: boot the machine without Ultrabay
unit.


In addition to this hardware concept, you should also consider a slower
boot process caused by an USB device or a docking station, as Alex Deucher
points in this thread. I think this is NOT a hardware failure, it is internal
algoritms of the BIOS/firmware, not very optimised.


Bye