[Thinkpad] Boot problem with old A21p

[Stuart F. Biggar]

At 10:58 AM 8/17/2007, you wrote:

The machine did not get wet.  I guess I should say
it didn't get wet from liquid water.  The humidity
and temperature in the wet building went fairly high
during the dry out process.  Hot dry air was blown into
the building after the liquid water was pumped/vacuumed
out.  The hot air treatment went on for five or six days.
The A21p was on a table well above any liquid water level.
Other computers on the same table or at the same height
in other rooms work fine as do uninterruptable power
supplies that were lower but above the water level.

The only thing that I can think of that might have
happened would be power related.  I don't know if the machine
was off when it was unplugged (I didn't unplug it).
It may have been on in the dock and then it subsequently
suspended or ???

I plugged the dock in and tried to power on - no luck.
I then removed the A21- from the dock and charged overnight, etc.

Stuart

>How wet did it get?  As in fully submerged?
>
>Your best bet is to attempt to thoroughly dry it before doing 
>anything more with it.  Take apart everything that is removable 
>(ultrabay device, hard disk, PC cards, memory cover, memory, etc. - 
>maybe even the keyboard if you know how to remove that) and then put 
>it in a warm, dry environment for a while.  Maybe a few days to a 
>week or longer.  Once it is fully dry it should work again unless 
>something shorted out.  If the hard disk got wet then it may be unrecoverable.
>
>Rob
>
>Stuart F. Biggar wrote:
>
>>I've got an elderly A21p that worked fine until we had
>>a flood at our office.  It was in a docking station and
>>was unplugged (along with many other things) when water
>>started coming in.  I've left it on charge with a known
>>good adapter overnight with two different batteries
>>(both worked last month).  I've also tried starting it
>>in a known good docking station (works with a T43p) and
>>with two different adapters, and with just the battery
>>(two different fully charged ones).
>>CMOS battery measures 3.04 V when out of the machine.
>>Machine makes a noise (sounds like the floppy) when
>>the power button is pressed.  The green power light
>>flashes once.  Nothing else happens ...
>>Any hints?  The machine is long out of warranty but
>>was useful for running things in the lab and still has
>>(or at least had) a nice 1600x1200 15" display ...
>>Thanks
>>Stuart
>>PS - I'm in Tucson AZ - we had lots of rain and the
>>runoff caused streets to fill beyond capacity.  The
>>building has a reverse bathtub ring about 8" above
>>the slab :-( - across the street the building flooded
>>for the first time in over 75 years.  Oh what fun
>>dealing with "black water".  Our move from off campus
>>to a new building on campus is being "expedited" but
>>the labs aren't finished yet ...
>
>
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