Well, I need some laptop help. Because we did not go racing this past
summer, my tuner laptop was unused and resting in the house. I tried to
power it up and got a failure to start, so to speak. So after some
messing around, in which I was sure I had permanently killed the laptop,
I started it without the battery. Good to go. I looked at the battery
terminals and saw that one of them was pretty farkled. After trying to
straighten out the farkle and still not getting it to work, I ordered
and got a new battery. The new battery shows approximately 80 percent
charge using it's self test feature. However, when placed ito the
computer, it still will not run off the battery or even start with it in
the computer. I have been doing a lot of research and find that there is
a BIOS flash update which I downloaded and tried to reflash the BIOS.
Well, that didn't work either because in order to reflash, the battery
needs to be installed. Ok, remember it wont start with the battery in
place during boot up so after boot I put the battery in. Book says thats
ok. But the compouter is simply not recognizing the battery, I have 3 of
them and none are recognized. When I run the bios flash it fails with
the notation that the battery needs to be installed. And the update was
supposed to fix that..so how.....
The computer is failing to get past the POST during boot up. Since I
have bot AC and DC adapters it is no real problem to use it the way it
is, but I want it back like the way it was...
This is a Dell LAtitude CPxJ 650 GT running XP Pro, bios version A11
(new was A15). I have tried removing every thing that can be removed
which is th ehard drive, the floppy/cd drive, al;l memory and PCMCIA
cards and still no go. I am beginning to suspect some farkle on the
system board...
Any thought out there. Off list, lets not bore the rest of the folk..
mayf, bummed out, out in pahrump
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