[PLUG] motherboard repairs

Dale F. Victor dalefv at k-com.net
Mon Jul 20 02:58:34 UTC 2009


On Sunday 19 July 2009 12:25:31 am Bill Barry wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Dale F. Victor<dalefv at 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
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