>> Symptoms slightly different now. On power-on, one long beep >> followed by one short beep (in the HMM the only one long beep >> variation is followed by four short beeps). The orange light >> does not come on. This is regardless of whether there is an HD >> or a CD drive in the appropriate bay. > >Have you set the BOOT order in the BIOS? > >(FDD>CD>HDD) > >Have you initialized the system in BIOS after adding the new HD? > >James >
My test machine has (CD>FDD>HDD) but I don't remember what boot order the parts machine system board had. That's the one in play now. At this stage it is impossible to access the BIOS because the screen is black. I'm at a loss. My best guess is that the once-good system board is now dead because of the (gentle) pressure I gave it trying to remove it from the lower chassis. But then why does the POST give some new indication instead of the many available for dead system board? Or maybe I have a multiple-FRU situation. Maybe one of them is inserting the screen ribbon cable incorrectly. Just guesses. -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
