Re: Problems? with new Thinkpad 600

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From: Turgut Kalfaoglu (turgut_at_egenet.com.tr)
Date: Sun Oct 04 1998 - 03:33:55 EDT

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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:40:56 -0500, Angela Walker wrote:
>I just purchased a Thinkpad 600 (233MMX with HPA screen, upgraded to 96 Mb
RAM) about 1 month ago. It's a pretty cool machine but I have a couple of
questions. I've read about the instance where it begins to boot, then starts
over. Mine does that, but I haven't really worried about it and from what

It must be a BIOS thing, as it appears to happen before any of the Operating
System is loaded. I have dual boot, and the restart happens before the dual
boot menu appears.

RAM). My desktop boots very fast, but the laptop seems to just sit at a
blank screen with a cursor (an underscore type of cursor) after the logo
screen has gone away (about 30 seconds). Does anyone know what it might be
doing?

checking system configuration? That's definitely a windows annoyance; mine
does the same, but the OS/2 does not.

>The second concern I have is that it has locked up hard three times so far
where the keyboard won't even respond. When this happens, the power switch

I never had that - power switch always responded. Maybe it's Windows thing
again; I dont use windows that much on that machine; except for StarCraft :)

- -turgut

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