Hellp,

BillW50 wrote:
> Wow the HD lites doesn't show anything? Being dropped? Oh bad hard drive
> or bad motherboard is my guesses. But I am thinking of the latter
> actually. This isn't good Elmar.

Thanks for your reply. HDD was defect after the crash, I replaced it
with another one that works and boots (in another laptop) but the
notebook never comes that far.

In case of a defect motherboard its of course FUBAR, although its hard
for me to imagine that the motherboard is gone because it sometimes
produces a "normal" first few seconds.
Although there are not mechanical components on the motherboard, is it
possible that a circuit path has some kind of "loose contact" - if you
can call it that - based on the crash?

ciao,
Elmar

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