Re: diagnosing devastating startup failure
Try disconnecting the battery and connecting it again, or try using it with
the battery off the computer, and so on. I am by no means sure if this will
work, but it's easy, so you might as well try it. It saved me a couple of
times when my Compaq wouldn't boot, however I hadn't open mine.
Good luck!
FC
On Tuesday November 2 2004 11:40 am, Matt Price wrote:
> Hello laptopers,
>
> I recently replaced the hard drive in my hp omnibook 4100. Everything
> sent fine at first, but when I went to reboot this morning power dies
> even before the BIOS screen comes on. This happens even when I have a
> bootable KNOPPIX rescue disk in the cd tray.
>
> I am worried that I may have damaged the fragile HD chassis cable when I
> changed disks; but I'm loathe to takei t back out again b/c every time
> I open & shut it I worry more. Does anyone out there recognize this
> problem, & can you give any advice on what to do?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Matt
>
>
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