Yesterday my brother handed me this laptop and basically said, "fix it." All I know about it is that its a Intel Pentium 3, 2 sticks of ram (128 and 256 mb), and a 20 gig Hitachi hdd. Here's the problem, I go to push the power button, nothing happens. When I plug in the power cord, the battery light flashes then stays a solid yellow/orange color. I push the power button again, the battery light goes off, flickers, and then returns to the solid yellow/orange. I do not hear the harddrive spin, fans going, or anything. I have no clue what the problem could be. A bad battery? Bad motherboard? the small motherboard battery? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Take the battery out and try it with just the mains adapter plugged in could be the battery is duff and stealing all the power
I removed the battery, but it still won't start up. There's the one green LED for accessing the harddrive, that blinks once and does nothing.
remove the hd using this link. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PEHK4 check this link on how to remove various parts. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-45956
I tried replacing the hard drive and it still won't start up. I want to try the motherboard battery next, but I don't know how. Anybody know any sites I can go to for this information?
