On 25 May 99 at 14:39, John Doe wrote:
> 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!
>
>
I am not acquainted with this model. Ps2 models are all numbered 85xx-xxx or
95xx-xxx so I am assuming this is an 8540. If you go to
www.can.com/helpware/vintage.htm
you should be able to find a reference disk for this machine which PS2s
require to configure. If it will boot you should be able to set up your
machine. It is also possible that the reference/diagnostic disk is on your HD.
Press alt-A when starting up. Sounds like there is a wrong version of Dos on
the HD than what it is expecting. There should be a POST error message on
start-up if the FDD isn't functioning.
ciao larry
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Received on Tue May 25 1999 - 12:26:13 BST