Hi
I love the design of these machines but god help you once you turn one on. I've probably worked through 3-5 of these machines now and each one has a succession of foybles and issues which I can only imagine get worse with time.
The one I am working on today appears to have a RAM issue:
Does anyone know if this means one of the RAM chips has gone bad? If so, which one? If I do the RAM test in the hardware tool, the screen goes fuzzy and blank and the machine locks up:
I have removed the old battery, which was showing signs of parasitic corrosion, but I think I caught it largely in time. I have a CR2032 wired in, tested at 3v and it *does* keep the time but it keeps giving me 161 and 163 CMOS battery errors.... any ideas why?
If I sit it in the configuration screen for a few minutes, it will freeze up, but if I just boot into dos, it's fine.....
Finally, the test tool does come up with a mainboard issue as shown here:
Any ideas!?
Thanks!
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701c Woes - RAM, CMOS Battery, Freezes...
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Re: 701c Woes - RAM, CMOS Battery, Freezes...
The images are not there. Yes the memory error on the 701s is very common now and it just comes from motherboard age and loss of function. It's an issue with the soldered on RAM. The laptop may or may not boot or POST with that error. You can also put in an external memory chip and if it is just right, the amount of memory total will still read correctly.
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Re: 701c Woes - RAM, CMOS Battery, Freezes...
FYI: those images are stored on https://proactionnetworks.com/
I get these errors when I try to look at them with my browser (Waterfox):
I get these errors when I try to look at them with my browser (Waterfox):
Your connection is not secure
The owner of proactionnetworks.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Waterfox has not connected to this website.
proactionnetworks.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names:
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