Re: start-up problems with my 760CD

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From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 11:59:36 EDT

I have seen this before with 760's - dead on the ac adaptor, powers up in the docking station and resets.
The time/date errors were because you pulled the CMOS battery - had nothing at all to do with the other problems.
Don't have any explanation of this, but indeed I have seen this on various 760 models. When somebody has a dead one, I can often revive it in a docking station - and they work ok after that!
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Mike Jackson
  To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
  Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:54 AM
  Subject: Re: start-up problems with my 760CD

  Well I actually got it working last night :o). I pulled the CMOS battery and it was fine [3.08V - range should be 2.5V to 4.0V] so I put it back in. I then pulled every module out and tried powering it up... nothing. I checked the LCD switch and it was moving properly. I also tried holding down F1 durring startup again with no improvement.

  I then put it all back in and plugged it into the docking station with a known good monitor and a known good power cord. Started her up an a couple error codes came up on the monitor in that type of screen with the bird. [I can't remember if I was holding down F1 durring startup or not]. I looked them up and they said to reset the date/time. So I hit okay on the screen and it went straight to the setup for the date/time. Did that then it started to load. It had to reload it's configurations and hung part way through. I then turned the power on and off and told it to open in full windows and it said it had to reconfigure again and I said go ahead. It did and then loaded windows fine. I then hit Fn+F7 and the LCD screen came on. I shut down and took it out of the docking station and tried to start it up and it worked great.

  Thanks for all the links guys. I think it was a combination of the external monitor being active and these errors coming up with an ok button I could not hit without seeing since the LCD was blank. Being in that error screen it would not accept Fn inputs so I could not turn on the LCD screen. So with an external monitor in I could fix the errors then set the LCD up. Just a guess though.

  Thanks again,

  Mike Jackson

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