[Cialug] bios fubar?

[David Champion]

Could be that by pulling the battery, it did a full cold reboot, which 
is what it needed.

Some laptops won't power on if there's no battery in it - even if you're 
on AC power.

-dc

neal daringer wrote:
> ok. it just resurected itself. (shucks i needed a doorstop). i tried 
> starting it up w/o the battery in it and voila it works now. wtf is 
> that crap???? btw its a  Dell Latitude CPi  (Pentium II 364Mhz :-D, 
> 128MB ram).. thank god it works again. now i need to get DOOM3 on this 
> baby and go to town!!
>
> on another note, have you ever heard of a case like this?? where the 
> battery is just so jacked up that the only way to run a laptop is to 
> not use the battery??
>
>
> jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
>> Do you get a cursor on the screen at all?  If you're willing to 
>> share, what's the make/model.  Some systems I've seen retain a basic 
>> set of functionality for video, keyboard, and floppy so a bios can be 
>> flashed if the current one is damaged.  Granted...that was a desktop 
>> board.
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2008 2:02 PM, neal daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com 
>> <mailto:admin at c0wzftp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     i recently was updating the bios on an old laptop, it showed that it
>>     finished. then it said, press enter to reboot. i pressed enter. then
>>     nothing. it will turn on, but i does not show anything nor act 
>> like it
>>     is doing anything worthwhile. any ideas on what i can do or is it
>>     now a
>>     nice big paperweight/doorstop/booster seat/pretend
>>     computer/etc/etc/etc????
>>
>>     kinda pisses me off too because i got the bios update from the
>>     manufacters website. fyi its wayyyyyyyyyyy out of warranty.