Multiple FRU is it. Because the parts machine system board seemed to be killed (it was working a week ago), I've spent some time with the original system board.
What the, ah, client didn't tell me is that somewhere along the line, salsa (the Mexican condiment, not the dance) was spilled on the keyboard. Thanks goodness I have a test machine with known good components. The offending keyboard, which caused 00 301 errors, is now sitting in a vat of water. Removing a dozen keytops and cleaning did not do the job. Later I will dry the keyboard. I had a minor success by shorting out the password pads and clearing the power-on password (which I had been advised was an administrator password and thus unclearable; I guess I should have taken a photo of the icon) But even with a good keyboard, the machine now POSTs with 0161 and 0163 errors, ending in a "read the manual" message and no possibility of booting. This happens also with a known good lithium battery from the test machine. Ironically, the user manual has no references to 161 aside from that page number. For 161 / 163 the HMM says that if the battery is good, the system board is dead. If all that is true, I guess it's back to retrying the parts machine system board with a known good keyboard and a known good screen. There's nothing like experience. >>> 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
