From: gad fly (gadflybite_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 22:03:50 EDT
Tried self diagnostics (they didn't appear on the
screen) - the boot doesn't make it that far.
The 'boot button' I was refering to is more formally
known as "the front display release latch".
It might be a hairline crack, but someone mailed me
off-group suggesting that the little metal part that
attaches to the base of the front display release
latch might be loose. This could well be the problem.
I'll have a look at that the next chance I get.
kudos,
Michael
---Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:10:05 -1000-------------
David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
> The 'boot button':
> I was refering to the clip the lid of the notebook
> latches into. When the tp's on, closing the lid
> reboots it.
There is no switch of any kind in the latch on the 560
series. The way the machine senses whether the lid is
closed is a pushbutton just above the gap between F8
and F9 keys. Moreover, closing the lid of this machine
should never reboot it.
To me it sounds as though you have a hairline crack in
a PCB connection, and the pressure of closing the case
causes the corresponding circuit to either open or
close. I once had a 560 that could be made to work
only by strapping it just the right way with a bungee
cord. The fix was a new system board.
Did you try the BIOS-based self-diagnostics as
suggested by others?
- David R.
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