Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:27:53 -0800 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Dead L110
Matt, maybe it is the hard drive itself. Can you boot the L110 MB with the Hard drive from the L100? Do you have another hard drive to test? I doubt it would be capacitors. Todays capacitors are very low leakage and you would be hearing of all kinds of electronic devices failing if this were the case. You just do not hear this anymore. Another thought - the battery. That acts like a huge capacitor but is extremely leaky. Can you try another battery? Dick -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:21 PM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Dead L110 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:18:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Dead L110 Well, I pulled the 100 MB from my system and reassembled it with the problem 110 MB I suspect is dead or dying. But it's still not working. I think the problems that Dick and Brian were experiencing with their systems where different, and mine different than either of theirs. Dick's seems to merely have been a problem of reassembly. Brian's one where the BIOS somehow got changed to only allow an external monitor. But I think what I'm seeing is some component failure. What happened when I pulled the 100 MB and reinstalled the system with the 110 MB was another in a series of similar behaviors I've see with this MB ever since I got it. Until the other night, the 110 MB had sat for about week. On completion of reassembling the system with it installed, I got red the Toshiba splash screen from BIOS and the EZ-Drive boot message from the hard drive. But since I had W98 set up for the 100 MB, I shut it down at the EZ-Drive prompt. However I then decided to go ahead and let the system boot the W98 OS that I had installed on the HDD when the 100 MB was in the system, as I've had success doing that (at least for test purposes) in the past. So I went ahead and started the system up again. But it went back to its old state of not doing anything besides spinning the HDD and lighting 3 of 4 LEDs. This sort of thing happened a >lot< when I 1st got the board. But at that point, just waiting 5-10 minutes, or pulling the HDD for testing on the desktop and then replacing it, would bring it back to life. Once or twice after multiple attempts to get it to boot, I let it sit overnight, and then found that it would work fine the next day. I >had< tried to overnight approach when the system 1st failed last week, but with no affect. A week's wait got it to start to boot once, but then not again. So maybe some of the more technical minds out there can corroborate my suspicion that I may have a leaky capacitor in the circuit somewhere. Seems I've seen this sort of behavior in electronic devices of yesteryear. I did measure the 3 fuses that Dick found, and they all showed proper continuity. I also tried Neil's suggestion that worked for Brian where I had the system in the EPR with an external monitor connected. But nothing came up on the screen. In fact, being a green energy type monitor, it didn't even come out of its sleep state. I tried booting the 110, and >then< turning the monitor on, but nothing. So I'm running out of ideas for much else to suspect and target, other than assuming the MB is indeed beyond repair. Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
