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Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
On Aug 27, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Paul wrote:
What is likely to cause the following problem. An IBM laptop will
not power up. The voltage coming out of the power supply is good,
but nothing happens when the power button is pushed. (I don't have
the laptop in front of me yet, so I don't have any more information.)
Check the BIOS battery. If it powers up (i.e. the screen lights up
black) and nothing else happens, then you've mostly got moisture in
the laptop. In that case, just wait a half-hour in a dry environment
and try it again.
That sounds like a good thing to check. Unfortunately, another guy
looked at the laptop already and claimed that it had shorts inside.
(That's the problem. The shorts belong on the outside!) I think it's
unlikely, unless someone spilled a drink on it. Oh well.
BTW, is it difficult to replace a BIOS battery in a laptop?
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