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- From: brueck@inm.uni-sb.de (Stefan Brueck)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Summary: colorstation doesn't power up
- Date: 31 Dec 92 12:46:48
- Organization: Institute for New Materials (INM), Saarbr"ucken, Germany.
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- In-reply-to: brueck@inm.uni-sb.de's message of 25 Dec 92 14:07:06
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- thank you for your help! the problem is solved with your help and the
- computer is running again.
-
- the received answers to my problem 'computer doesn't start again when
- i press the power key' mentioned three possible causes:
-
- 1) the power supply is dead
- 2) the battery is dead or has bad contact
- 3) damaged data in non-volatile ram buffered by the battery
-
- as the total opposite of a hardware freak i am not able to check 1) so
- i tried first to check 2) the proper operation of the battery. Pasi
- 'Albert' Ojala <po87553@cs.tut.fi> suggested to measure the voltage of
- the battery between the shield of the ethernet tube (ground) and pin 6
- of the monitor outlet (without power cord connected). there were the
- correct 2.5 V or more - the battery was ok! now i performed the final
- check 3^) i opened the next (oh so many nice little pieces!) and re-
- moved the battery for about 30s then i inserted it again (check the
- proper direction!). several answers said that this would destroy the
- eventually bad data buffered in the non-volatile ram. the answers said
- that doing this does destroy correct data (boot parameters, hardware
- password) too. after assembling the computer together again (service
- friendly - one screw!) i pressed the power key... ... ... WHOW the
- computer is starting!!! it tried first to check for ethernet to boot
- from - ok this was caused by the default boot parameters and could
- be fixed by setting the correct boot device according to the sysadmin
- manual...
-
-
- thank you very much!
- stefan
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