On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:12:16PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:57, Karsten Rothemund wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:38:07AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 08:01, Karsten Rothemund wrote: [...] > > NO. It didn't stop, even after the machine was shutdown for one hour. > > Hmm. This is strange. After you shut down the machine, did you > disconnect the power and take the battery out to make sure that nothing > inside could still be "alive"? If it still happens after this then it > could be an actual hardware failure. > No. That's right: the batteries were left installed. [...] > > > new keyboard. > > > > They already did this. It does not help. > > So you do get "clicks" for the letters that don't show up? > I haven't tried the "click"-test. But I will do it. But DELL changed the keyboard (I think, it was a "blind action", just to do something - only my impression) > > [BIOS] > > > There is no really "good" Dell BIOS. You just have to find the one that > > > breaks the fewest number of things. :) > > > > > A08 was good for about 1 year. But then .... I try to go back, but how? It > > seems to be not straight forward as booting the BIOS-floppy to UPgrade. > > It should be that simple. You should just be able to boot from the BIOS > floppy and tell it which BIOS image to install. (Assuming you have a > copy of the appropriate BIOS image.) > I will try this again. First time I tried to go back, it didn't work. [...] > No problem. I'm glad to (try to) help. :) > > p.s. I read this list regularly, so please keep replies on the list so > that other people can benefit in the future from reading the mailing > list archives. Sorry. The mail should have also gone to the list (I forgot it but added the list adress later). Greetings from the Baltic Sea -- Karsten Rothemund GnuPG-Key-ID: 842968229F598ECB (Please use it) GnuPG-Key Fingerprint: A4D3 D837 7DA0 32D8 D7C7 AD35 8429 6822 9F59 8ECB
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