From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sat May 22 1999 - 02:45:49 EDT
maybe, just MAYBE its not the system board.. ?
but i suppose the tech has better info and tools to determine this..
Alex Bell wrote:
> I posted a little while ago a concern about a motherboard for my 385XD
> which the tech said was defective because the computer locked up after
> being left unattended. This motherboard was the second to be installed
> in the thinkpad, because the first one had an intermittent fault which
> prevented it from working with an Enhanced Port Replicator. The tech
> ordered another motherboard and tried to install it this morning. This
> afternoon he told me that he had not been able to boot up after
> installing this third motherboard, so he has put the second one back
> and has ordered yet another one from IBM.
>
> Is it likely that three successive motherboards would be defective? Or
> am I jinxed? Or is he?
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