[PLUG] motherboard repairs

Dale F. Victor dalefv at k-com.net
Fri Jul 24 00:51:07 UTC 2009


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<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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> 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
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