Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:35:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mr. Barnacle
Neil... if you're following Lib list posts... I was wondering how you determined that the dead screen problem in your/my L70 was due to a blown fuse... and how you found that fuse. I'm thinking that a problem with a fuse may be my only hope for resurrecting this L110 MB that appears to have died. Both of the last couple issues I was addressing with the 110 were power related: * My USB 2.0 PC card with a USB 2.0 link/transfer cable plugged into it required an external cable from the EPR PS/2 plug to supply enough power to the link cable. And the laplink-like software had made Win2000 go blue screen and reboot when trying to transfer files with the PC card plugged into the EPR. There was no problem with it plugged right into the L100. * I had just set up a batch file to deal with a spooler of some kind that was causing Win2000 to take over a minute to shut down. There were two lines: start /wait net stop spooler <MS support page suggested this "x:\... ...\ExitWindows.exe" /p /f <Ran a free shut/power down utility It seems unlikely that software in either case would have led to a fuse blowing. Though with the USB 2.0 PC card/cable, there was an extra current demanded from the cable. But the night of the USB blue screen thing (night before last), I had shut down and rebooted the system several times successfully after the blue screen problem. At the end of the night I had set a Winamp utility to close Winamp and power down the system after 2 hours of playing time, as I�ve done many times. It was the next morning that the system first failed to boot. Ironic that the name of the utility is �Kill Winamp�. I recall you had me test to see if the resistance across the fuse on the L70 was zero, and then solder a fuse wire across the top of the case. The L70 is still going after all these years. I may just pull the L110 out and see if I can spot any fuses in it. Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
