Re: Help! Transmonde not even going into BIOS!!! -- the transmonde laptop information page

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Subject: Re: Help! Transmonde not even going into BIOS!!!

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Dale

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Date Posted: 08:22:39 06/28/00 Wed
In reply to: Dale 's message, "Help! Transmonde not even going into BIOS!!!" on 10:21:20 06/21/00 Wed

Found the problem. A chip cap on the bottom of the processor card shorted against the screws on the card below it. Looks like something must've not survived. Without a schematic, and pin listing, it is nearly impossible to troubleshoot to the component level.

>
> Hi Gang,
>
> This seems like a common problem as of late on this
> list, but my Transmonde (original version) will NOT
> boot now. I turn it on, and the LCD panel shows the
> thing in sleep mode or something, and pressing the
> button, ANY button makes no difference. This thing is
> just DOA

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