In news:47F80DD0.2010200@elmarweber.org,
Elmar Weber typed on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:40:00 +0200:
> 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?

Yes exactly! Odds are so great that something has came loose. If you are
lucky, it just might be something that came loose from a socket
somewhere. The worse case is that the motherboard has cracked (even just
a hair line one would do it) and one or more connections are lost.

--
Bill