Re: [Thinkpad] Another Dead thinkpad A20m

There are system boards on Ebay for under $80 brand new. It is easy to
change
Or, I'll give you $100 for the laptop AS-IS
(LOL)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aldo Godínez" <aldogdz@hotmail.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Another Dead thinkpad A20m

> Hi there, my 3 year old A20m, appears to de bead. It has the same symptoms
> that have showed other laptops in the forum ("when I powered it
> > >> back on nothing happened at all - screen's blank, no HDD activity, no
> > >> respond to CapsLock or NumLock. I can hear fan and HDD spin up sound,
> > >> but that's it"). I can get it running after like 30 attempts of
turning
> >it on, and everything looks like if nothing is happening at all... the
only
> >symptom is that when i hit F1 to open the BIOS, it freezes, but that's
> >all... I formated the hard drive, I updated the BIOS and still has the
same
> >problem and is annoying to begin to try to get it running like 45 minutes
> >before it really starts. Does anyone knows what is the problem? thanks
>
>
>
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