[PLUG] motherboard repairs

wes plug at the-wes.com
Sat Jul 25 02:54:47 UTC 2009


You can easily eliminate a hard drive problem by removing the hard drive,
and booting it up. It should get to a "Missing operating system" or similar
message. Not sure if that's been tried already..
-wes

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Dale F. Victor <dalefv at k-com.net> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Sorry I was not plain, I do get excited.
>
> The battery is fine, I know that.
>
> The hard drive could be bad.
>
> It does not run long enough to get into the bios. I tried.
>
> Any thing more, I really want this to work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dale
>
>
> On Friday 24 July 2009 6:34:25 pm Larry W wrote:
> > Dale F. Victor wrote:
> > > After it died I tried again and it
> > > almost went as long as this last time. I took out the battery and tried
> > > it again and it tried, but no go.
> >
> > Are you saying that with the battery removed there was nothing at all?
> > What is the measured output voltage of the battery?  What is the
> > measured output voltage of the power supply?  Your symptoms are similar
> > to another laptop I've encountered, and the problem was low output on
> > the power supply.
> >
> > Larry
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