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Posted: **Tue May 18, 2004 5:51 am**

Can anyone please help, I have a 600E 366 which sometimes will boot & most other times won't!

The symptoms are...
Power light on
HDD light stays on
HDD spins up
Does not get to POST - screen stays blank.
FDD & CD are not accessed.

This stays the same with all of the following removed...
HDD
Memory SIMMs
CDRom
Battery
CMOS battery

Any ideas would be gratefully accepted!
Thanks.
Mark

Posted: **Tue May 18, 2004 10:04 am**

Change the CMOS battery!

BTW, if you take out the CMOS battery it's IMPOSSIBLE for a 600 series machine to BOOT unless it's docked.

Regards,

James

Posted: **Fri May 21, 2004 3:53 pm**

Managed to get the machine up & running - only way was a system board replacement. Now all I have to do is figure out why it will not run off battery power.

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600E - intermittant power up problems

600E - intermittant power up problems