[Cialug] bios fubar?

[Major Stubble]

Yes.  Well... Sorta.

I had a black MacBook where I had drained the battery down so low that  
I ruined the battery.  When it first happened, I couldn't boot/power  
on the MacBook.  When I pulled the battery, I was able to boot with  
the power plugged in.  After that, I couldn't charge the batter, so I  
had to replace it.

-Nick

On Jan 11, 2008, at 2:28 PM, neal daringer wrote:

> ok. it just resurected itself. (shucks i needed a doorstop). i tried  
> starting it up w/o the battery in it and voila it works now. wtf is  
> that crap???? btw its a  Dell Latitude CPi  (Pentium II 364Mhz :-D,  
> 128MB ram).. thank god it works again. now i need to get DOOM3 on  
> this baby and go to town!!
>
> on another note, have you ever heard of a case like this?? where the  
> battery is just so jacked up that the only way to run a laptop is to  
> not use the battery??
>
>
> jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
>> Do you get a cursor on the screen at all?  If you're willing to  
>> share, what's the make/model.  Some systems I've seen retain a  
>> basic set of functionality for video, keyboard, and floppy so a  
>> bios can be flashed if the current one is damaged.  Granted...that  
>> was a desktop board.
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2008 2:02 PM, neal daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com <mailto:admin at c0wzftp.com 
>> >> wrote:
>>
>>    i recently was updating the bios on an old laptop, it showed  
>> that it
>>    finished. then it said, press enter to reboot. i pressed enter.  
>> then
>>    nothing. it will turn on, but i does not show anything nor act  
>> like it
>>    is doing anything worthwhile. any ideas on what i can do or is it
>>    now a
>>    nice big paperweight/doorstop/booster seat/pretend
>>    computer/etc/etc/etc????
>>
>>    kinda pisses me off too because i got the bios update from the
>>    manufacters website. fyi its wayyyyyyyyyyy out of warranty.
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