Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:21:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Dead L110
Oh... and swapping a CMOS/RTC battery into the 110 from my 50 that I verified was good had no affect. --- Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... It looks like this L110 I built a few months back from a used 110 > MB I bought, and parts from my 100 has died. > > It doesn't do anything when powered on besides spinning the HDD, and > lighting the 1st, 3rd, and 4th LED from left to right. It doesn't load > BIOS settings when holding down ESC at boot. It only once displayed a > message to load a BIOS update by holding down F12 at boot, and hasn't > repeated that since. > > I've tried: > > * Booting it with nothing but the AC adapter (no battery, HDD or FDD). > * Booting with nothing but the battery. > * Booting with just the FDD & AC. > * Booting with FDD & battery. > * Reseating 32MB memory upgrade and display cable. > * Booting without the expansion memory > > Sounds a lot like Pres's problem with his L50 back in 1999: > > http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/1999/msg04252.html > > My only hope is that it will come back to life by letting it sit for a > few > days. That worked back when I 1st got this 110MB, and was mentioned in > that thread on Pres's problem... though I'm not hopefull. Every time I > had this problem was when I was building and tweaking the system, right > after I made some change. This time the system was working fine for some > time (beside the shutdown and audio problems I'd just fixed. > > Ironic this happened right after Giovanni's post on the similar sounding > problem with his L50. > > Matt > > > --- Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:00:59 -0800 (PST) > > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [LIB] Can anybody help me? > > > > Giovanni, > > > > Ironically I suddenly seem to be having the same, or similar problem > with > > my 110CT. I power it on, and nothing at all happens. The system power > > LED > > on the far left of the 4 LEDs comes on. The 2 LEDs on the right side, > > the > > battery charging LED (2nd from right), and the AC power LED (far right) > > come on. The hard drive spins. But nothing is displayed on the > screen, > > and the system doesn't boot. > > > > I tried re-seating the display cable and 32MB expansion memory module, > > but > > nothing. Holding down ESC doesn't bring up BIOS/CMOS settings. Only > one > > time did I get the screen to display something. That was by holding > down > > the F12 key with the floppy drive connected. I got the 'update bios' > > message. But only that once. It hasn't worked again. > > > > So I'm looking at the CMOS/RTC battery myself now. I've confirmed that > > the > > ones in my 50 and 70 are the same battery as in the 100 and 110. So > I'm > > going to swap one into the 110 from my 50 and see if that helps. > > > > More later. > > > > Matt > > > > --- Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:16:30 -0800 (PST) > > > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: [LIB] Can anybody help me? > > > > > > Hi Giovanni, > > > > > > The only thing I can think of is that the display cable may need > > > re-seating. If you lift the small plastic bar at the top of the > > > keyboard, > > > you can access the screw that holds it down. After that's off, > there's > > > two > > > screws on either side (left and right) that hold the keyboard > grounding > > > straps down. The flat keyboard cable is removed by using a small > watch > > > screwdriver to push the lock tabs on the cable socket towards the > > > display. > > > Push a little on one side, then the other, than back and forth until > > the > > > lock releases the cable. > > > > > > I think there are two more screws that hold the heat tin down. Take > > > those > > > off, and you can access the display cable. Disconnect it and > > re-connect > > > it > > > a few times. You might also want to do the same with the explansion > > > memory > > > card if you have one. It's on the left side with one screw holding > it > > > down. > > > > > > If no luck there... maybe someone else on the list will have some > > other > > > ideas. > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > --- Giovanni Bagnoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:13:14 +0100 > > > > From: "Giovanni Bagnoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: Can anybody help me? > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm giovanni bagnoli, I have a libretto CT50. After a lot of time > > > (about > > > > 2 > > > > years) I have tried to relight the computer. > > > > > > > > The result has been that the power led is ignited, the hard disk > led > > > too > > > > but > > > > does not ignite the video and computer doesn't start. > > > > > > > > It can be the battery cmos? > > > > > > > > Does anybody have other idea? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > giovanni __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
