Hello! Replying to the text at the bottom of the page. I tried a Ubuntu disk as I just burned on on my desk system. I think it might have lasted a little longer before shutting off, the disk drive definitely lit up.
Thanks for the effort. Dale On Tuesday 21 July 2009 8:32:59 pm glenn wrote: > Dale F. Victor wrote: > > On Sunday 19 July 2009 12:25:31 am Bill Barry wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Dale F. Victor<dal...@k-com.net> wrote: > >>> On Friday 17 July 2009 10:25:46 am Bill Barry wrote: > >>>> What is the evidence that it is really the motherboard and not the > >>>> power supply or the fan or something else? > >>> > >>> All I have to go by is what people tell me. A company up north (I > >>> forget their name) said they repaired it by doing something to the > >>> bios. I got the computer back and it worked twice and then the old > >>> problem was back. I callled them and was told to take the battery out. > >>> This worked once. > >> > >> Do you mean that you took the battery out and put it back in and > >> booted, or just left the battery out and booted without it? If you > >> haven't done that, it would be worth trying, just take the battery out > >> and boot with just the wall wart, it could be a bad battery problem. > >> > >>> When the computer turns off it does so before anything comes to the > >>> screen. > >> > >> So you can't get to the bios. That's too bad. Does it beep? > > > > No it does not get that far. > > > >> It could well be a motherboard problem, but it still might be some > >> kind of power problem. The battery could be causing problems, or the > >> wall wart is in trouble or ?, and as soon as the system needs a little > >> more power during the boot, like for spinning up the hard disk, it > >> kicks off. Do you hear the hard disk start spinning? > > > > It immediately makes a noise but I do not know if it is the hard drive or > > the fan, or both as it does move air. I bought a new power brick and a > > new battery and that changed nothing. I just tried to start it up as it > > has been some time and it actually makes noise for about 2 - 3 seconds > > before it shuts down, turns off. This is on wall power with the new brick > > and the battery out of the machine. > > > > Thanks for sticking with me. > > > > Dale > > > >> Bill > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > My two cents: This sounds like my last two failures of my corporate > laptops, both times it was the hard drive. Got a knoppix disk you can > boot from? That will at least tell you the motherboard and the power > supply are OK. > > Glenn > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
