On Thursday 04 December 2003 2:52 am, Sebastian Wolff wrote:
They simply don't react after turning the power on (except turning on the fan and the CD drive). The repair service believes it is the main board which must be replaced.
And each time the 'damage' resulted from similar situations (the first time I believed it was the age of my laptop):
I wanted to change the BIOS configuration. To enter the setup you have to press F2 in the very beginning. Usually I miss this time. Hence, I resetted the computer after missing it. However, I am used to damages to the file system in the worst case - therefore, to press reset is a very common and intuitive way.
I'm a hardware reseller in a small town in the middle of Java (Indonesia). 100% of my customer run win'95, win'98 even XP on their computers. Sometimes it happens that way, after you reset your box, then your computer won't boot up again. I just open the box and clear the CMOS. And it will works again. But your problem is more difficult, because it's a notebook. Maybe you can tell the repairman to clear the CMOS? You see, it's not SUSE Linux that killed your mainboard. Best regards, David