[Cialug] bios fubar?

[Nathan C. Smith]

We have been having battery issues with our 1 year-old Lenovo T60s.  

A bad batch of batteries. 

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: neal daringer [mailto:admin at c0wzftp.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:28 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] bios fubar?
> 
> 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.
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