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Re: IBM Thinkpad 390E won't boot...
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Doug Simmons <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:57:42 -0400
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At 9/25/00 01:27 PM, Richard Neimeyer wrote:

>I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E laptop computer (series  2626-BOU) that is
>simply dead in the water.  It won't boot up, it has no drive activity,
>and no LCD/CRT display.  This is the second such problem I have
>encountered with these laptops.  Part of my job is to help maintain
>these computers for student use.

I've had these symptoms when my battery was Dead-Dead-Dead (shorted!).  You
can try to power the laptop up without a battery to see if that is the
problem.

Doug

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