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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:56:56 -0800
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Dead Thinkpad scenario

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Does it have a brick? Can you measure the voltage output of the brick?

J R FOX wrote:
> I know some of you have experience with TPads, so
> maybe you have some insight into this. I recently
> became the recipient of a hand-me-down A21M. It
> worked fine for several days (it was always being run
> off wall power, and the battery showed 98% charge or
> better on the meter), during which time I was removing
> any personal info of the prior user, removing many
> programs that are obsolete or not of interest, and
> beginning to install some new programs, such as SM 117
> to replace an old Netscape 7.1. *Had it kept
> working*, one of the next steps would have been to
> shrink the W2K partition down and put eCS on. But I
> never got that far. It croaked first: definitely
> something power or electrical in nature.
>
> At first, I thought it must be a bad power ON switch,
> since it had been taking 20 or 30 presses to engage,
> almost since I began this little project. Up until
> this point, the battery had been showing its green LED
> lit. That is no longer the case. If I remove the
> battery, the TP will not even run off the wall power.
> But after removing the battery and re-seating it a
> couple times, the power switch works again, right
> away. However, the TP only lights up to show the TP
> logo, then displays a "0190: Critical Low Battery
> Error," then shuts off. It never even gets as far as
> POST. The return of the power switch to life and the
> "it's dead running straight off the mains" factors
> strongly suggest to me that neither it nor the battery
> is the ultimate culprit. Some Googling reveals the
> existence of a "power board" *internal* part.
> (Presumably the laptop's version of a power supply ?)
> Do you agree that is most likely what needs to be
> replaced ?
>
> TIA.
>
>
> Jordan

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Tom Brown, Catherder
thomabrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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