From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 17:30:26 EST
Thanks for the update..
the answer was, in short, HARDWARE.. :-)
thats the trouble with win9x and all this complexity.. on some occasions its
difficult to sort out hardware from software or both..
Adnan Mumbasic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the last 2 month I have many times posted that my thinkpad 770 ed has
> prolems with suspend.
> The first problem was after suspending the thinkpad wouldnīt resume. I
> have to reset it. This worked 2 weeks, after this I have to pull out the
> battery and to reset it many times before it would boot.
> Then few weeks later after switching off the thinkpad correctly it
> wouldnīt boot the first time, so I had to reset it many times pull out
> the battery and wait 2 or 3 hours before it could boot.
> As you can expect after few weeks nothing worked correct, no booting
> nothing only some blinking and some mysterious sounds.
>
> Until this day I thought a computer works or works not, but I learned
> that a computer simillar to a human can get ill and then more ill until
> he falls in coma.
>
> But IBM had some antibiotica for him, sending him 2 weeks to IBM they
> replaced the motherborad (for us humans impossible :( ) and the
> videocard and now all works fine.
>
> To all other having such problems (and there were few in this group)
> send your thinkpad for repair to IBM, donīt spend hours in solving the
> problem, you couldnīt solve it.
>
> Best regards
>
> Adnan Mumbasic
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