M700 Boot problems

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Amyotte <amyotte@personainternet.com> wrote:
> We recently acquired a Compaq Armada M700 PII 366 mhz laptop that has
> started having a boot up problem.
>
> At power on the Num lock, Caps lock, and scroll lock lights come on.
> The hard drive or power light does not come on. Fan is not working
> either. Pretty much dead. This can happen with the battery or power
> cord attached.
>
> Any ideas at what to check?

Change the CMOS (RTC) battery.

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JHEM wrote:
> Amyotte <amyotte@personainternet.com> wrote:
>
>>We recently acquired a Compaq Armada M700 PII 366 mhz laptop that has
>>started having a boot up problem.
>>
>>At power on the Num lock, Caps lock, and scroll lock lights come on.
>>The hard drive or power light does not come on. Fan is not working
>>either. Pretty much dead. This can happen with the battery or power
>>cord attached.
>>
>>Any ideas at what to check?
>
>
> Change the CMOS (RTC) battery.

I have a M700 here with similar symptoms. I already tried changing the
CMOS battery - to no avail. From what I can gather, a common fault on
these machines is the DC-DC voltage board ....

If you're in the USA, you can get one for $20 + post.
For us lot in the UK, shipping would make that probably $50 - a deal
killer :-/



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I am monitoring the time display on the M700. I does appear to lose about a
1 - 2 seconds per hour, will know better tomorrow morning.
CMOS battery is a suspect here.

Where did you get your replacement battery from? Can't seem to locate.

Brian


"Martin Slaney" <slaz@dsl.NIET_SPAMpipex.com> wrote in message
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> JHEM wrote:
>> Amyotte <amyotte@personainternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>We recently acquired a Compaq Armada M700 PII 366 mhz laptop that has
>>>started having a boot up problem.
>>>
>>>At power on the Num lock, Caps lock, and scroll lock lights come on.
>>>The hard drive or power light does not come on. Fan is not working
>>>either. Pretty much dead. This can happen with the battery or power
>>>cord attached.
>>>
>>>Any ideas at what to check?
>>
>>
>> Change the CMOS (RTC) battery.
>
> I have a M700 here with similar symptoms. I already tried changing the
> CMOS battery - to no avail. From what I can gather, a common fault on
> these machines is the DC-DC voltage board ....
>
> If you're in the USA, you can get one for $20 + post.
> For us lot in the UK, shipping would make that probably $50 - a deal
> killer :-/
>
>
>
> --
> ..
>
> I am not a marketing target ... I am a free man.

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Amyotte wrote:
> I am monitoring the time display on the M700. I does appear to lose about a
> 1 - 2 seconds per hour, will know better tomorrow morning.
> CMOS battery is a suspect here.
>
> Where did you get your replacement battery from? Can't seem to locate.

Its a while ago now, but ISTR its just a CR2032 ... no ?
I just kludged it by soldering onto the surface of the button cell (I
think there's a reason you're not meant to do that) - it worked OK as a
battery, but may suffer corrosion or some such ... anyway it didn't
solve my problem.

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Something funky is going on with the laptop time display. At 3:30am I
synched the laptop time with my watch to the second.
It appeared to have lost about 1 minute over a 12 hour period.
I check the time 5 hours later and it had fallen behind by 17 seconds. An
hour and a half later it made up time and was only back 5 seconds.
8 hours into this and it has fallen to 10 seconds back. Not sure how
accurate the display clock is.

BTW - I am doing this on battery only - no AC this test.

Any ideas?

Brian



"Martin Slaney" <slaz@dsl.NIET_SPAMpipex.com> wrote in message
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> Amyotte wrote:
>> I am monitoring the time display on the M700. I does appear to lose
>> about a 1 - 2 seconds per hour, will know better tomorrow morning.
>> CMOS battery is a suspect here.
>>
>> Where did you get your replacement battery from? Can't seem to locate.
>
> Its a while ago now, but ISTR its just a CR2032 ... no ?
> I just kludged it by soldering onto the surface of the button cell (I
> think there's a reason you're not meant to do that) - it worked OK as a
> battery, but may suffer corrosion or some such ... anyway it didn't solve
> my problem.
>
> --
> ..
>
> I am not a marketing target ... I am a free man.