Hi!
At the moment I’m rather an unhappy user of an old PS/2 laptop computer. Why
unhappy? I’m not able to boot it up, alltrough i tried everything, started
from disassembling it to the smallest part to changing the 3,5” floppy disk
drive and so on. I would really appreciate any information or hint about
starting it up. O.k, these are the specs of the machine:
Machine: IBM PS/2 Model L40 SX
Proc.: i386DX _at_ 20 Mhz
RAM: 2 Mb on-board
(the two blue memory slots are still free)
HDD: 60 Mb (Conner, Model CP2067, no OS on it)
FDD: 3,5” 1.44 Mb
(Panasonic, Model JU-237A03W, P/N 72X6074) < !
The problem is that the FDD activity LED does not light up when the computer
is started, even when a disk is in the drive. Only the LCD symbol of the
3,5” disk drive on the computer panel goes on, but nothing happens. I never
had the chance to work on PS/2 computers and so I don’t know what to do now.
I’ve checked all connections and all cables. It seem like the FDD doesn’t
get any power input from the board, but i’m not sure. I think that the
problem is somewhere else. Later when the BIOS tries to boot up from the
hard disk, a message in Danish appears telling that the command interpreter
(COMMAND.COM) couldn’t be found … (The computer has a Danish BIOS on-board).
Please help me, I need help as soon as possible. Mail all hints and/or
advices to evilnet_genesis_at_yahoo.com or evilnet_genesis_at_hotmail.com. If
nobody can’t help me then please give me some links or adresses, where I can
find informations.
Thank you!
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Received on Tue May 25 1999 - 14:39:07 BST