Re: diagnosing devastating startup failure

2004-11-03 Thread Matt Price
Federico Cepeda wrote: Try disconnecting the battery and connecting it again, or try using it with the battery off the computer, and so on. I am by no means sure if this will work, but it's easy, so you might as well try it. It saved me a couple of times when my Compaq wouldn't boot, however I h

Re: diagnosing devastating startup failure

2004-11-02 Thread Federico Cepeda
Try disconnecting the battery and connecting it again, or try using it with the battery off the computer, and so on. I am by no means sure if this will work, but it's easy, so you might as well try it. It saved me a couple of times when my Compaq wouldn't boot, however I hadn't open mine. Good

diagnosing devastating startup failure

2004-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hello laptopers, I recently replaced the hard drive in my hp omnibook 4100. Everything sent fine at first, but when I went to reboot this morning power dies even before the BIOS screen comes on. This happens even when I have a bootable KNOPPIX rescue disk in the cd tray. I am worried that I m