From: Thomas, Daniel J. (Daniel.Thomas_at_jhuapl.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 08:33:52 EST
Well, My replacement RTC battery arrived on Friday. I put it in with no
problems, but I still have the same symptoms. If I go into the bios and hit
"initialize" and let the machine reboot, the OS loads with no problem and
everything seems fine. When I shut it down or reboot it from there, I get
that Black and white picture of the floppy disk and "F" keys with an arrow
to push the "F1" key. (I didn't look the actual error up, but I would
interpret that as the machine saying there is no bootable media present.
Now, if it was the hard drive, wouldn't I have problems after the OS booted
or during the OS load also? Unless perhaps the disk is somehow unstable at
the boot sector? I guess other then the RTC battery, I don't know why
"initializing" the bios would make the problem disappear.
-Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas, Daniel J.
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:57 AM
To: 'Bruce Markowitz'; Thomas, Daniel J.; 'thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu'
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] TP600 - HD Gone South?
That's an excellent Idea! I hadn't thought of that. Are those pretty
standard type batteries on the 600's, or do I need to go through IBM?
-dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Markowitz [mailto:scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:53 AM
To: Thomas, Daniel J.; thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] TP600 - HD Gone South?
Try replacing the RTC battery. It is at least 3 years old on a 600, and
strange things happen when the battery goes south.
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas, Daniel J. <mailto:Daniel.Thomas_at_jhuapl.edu>
To: 'Thinkpad_at_Cs. Utk. Edu <mailto:'Thinkpad_at_Cs. Utk. Edu
(thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu)'> (thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu)'
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:19 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] TP600 - HD Gone South?
Yesterday my system started blue screening with "inaccessible boot device"
every time windows tried to boot. I just did a re-install last night and at
random the machine either boots fine, or prompts for a floppy disk to be
inserted and for the user to press F1. I can't hear the hard disk spin up
when this occurs. Has my disk gone to the big parts bin in the sky?
-Dan
Daniel J. Thomas
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JHU Applied Physics Lab
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