[Thinkpad] Boot problem with old A21p

[Bruce Markowitz]

OK, now first of all, if there was a live battery inside and moisture got
in, it is toast. If the AC adaptors were on the floor, they may be toast.
However, it is possible it got a bad suspend and it is stuck.So try this:
Remove the battery (NOT THE CMOS) and the power
Press the power button at least 10 times
HOLD the power button down for 30 seconds
Repeat
Now plug it into a known good AC adaptor, and see what happens, I just
revived a dead T22 this way in the last 5 minutes.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart F. Biggar" <Stuart.Biggar at opt-sci.arizona.edu>
To: <thinkpad at stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Boot problem with old A21p


> 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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