VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 10:41:53 07/13/04 Tue
Author: Iwan
Subject: Old iLufa notebook stuck at POST after stays off halfday

This is my first entry since registered....

My daughter dropped by Last week with her old ilufa notebook. She told me that she could not use it since 2 weeks back.

Therefore, I checked it up. Turned it on. It stoped just before the usual display of ram checking line during POST (it displays only two lines of Phoenix BIOS information at the top of the screen). Hit ctrl-alt-del, no response. The only action I can do is shutting the power off and restarting it, but the same problem then repeat.

The next morning I forgot to turn it off (while it stuck). About 2 hours later, I turned it off, and on again. Surprisingly, it beeped once or twice. There was error message on the screen stating real time error, CMOS error... or something like that (I forgot to write them down) with two choices, F1 to continue or F2 to enter BIOS Setup. I hit F2 and enter the setup. A red warning applet appeared stating that it will apply the default setting to overcome CMOS data error. I clicked the only one choice 'OK' button. I Flipped pages just to make sure that the old good setting were set, then save and exit the setup. After that, everything was running well.

I played around with office and some games for about 3 hours until I heard the low-bat warning beep. I plugged in the mains adaptor, saw the confirmation that the battery was being charged. Shutdown windows and computer, and let the battery charged.

2 hours latter, I back to the laptop. The battery was fully charged. I unplugged the mains adaptor, and turned the notebook on. It runs normal, enters windows, and I shut it down. That night, maybe about 10 to 20 times, I turned the notebook on and off, run Norton disk doctor, speed disk, MacAfee, played games, until I was tired, shutdown the computer, and then fell asleep.

First thing in the morning the next day, I turned the notebook on, and found that the notebook stuck again. To regain control, I repeated what happened the day before. I let it stuck at the two line BIOS info for 2 hours, shut it down and turned it on again. Yes, I could enter the bios setup again. I saved it and restart. Windows runs okay. Everything runs well until after the laptop stays off for at least half day and the problem reappears.

Curious of the possibility of bad CMOS battery, I measured the voltage across the battery using digital multi-meter. It was good 2.9 volts comparing to the 3 volts on the label. I test run also without the ram stick but the problem still existed. Swap the processor with a known good one, same result also.


Specs:
Brand: ilufa, model 860C
Processor: Pentium 100 MHz
RAM: On-board 8Mb, additional ram stick 8Mb, total 16 Mb.
Cache memory: 256 Kb
Integrated Touch Pad
Operating system: Windows 95


Please help me anybody. Thanks
(Sorry for my bad English)

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.