To me it sounds like a bad coin-cell battery. I very well could be wrong though. Is there any way for you to use the F12 option on boot and try the diagnostics?
Nah F12 gives a modifiying boot record message or something similar (whatever it normally does) but then drops out to the timer message again. Similarly trying to boot with the media button gives a different splash followed by the same message. Think it might be corrupted CMOS - somone on the ubuntu forums had the same problem and it was solved by taking out the coil cell battery for a minute or so. Don't want to do that without tech support approval tho or it will no doubt invalidate my warranty :)
Were you using ubuntu? I just had the same problem with my 6400 as well. Hard locked, it wouldn't boot. I too managed to revive it by taking the coin-battery out for a few minutes...
I'm trying to narrow it down, wondering if it's ubuntu or the 6400 itself.
hello
i am a ubuntu user too and i had exactly the same problem. however i succeeded to get my laptop back to life by removing the battery for a few minutes...
but now, the bios time seems to be completely random at each reboot... it seems like the time is not kept between two successive boot... did you have the same problem?
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I'm trying to narrow it down, wondering if it's ubuntu or the 6400 itself.
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i am a ubuntu user too and i had exactly the same problem. however i succeeded to get my laptop back to life by removing the battery for a few minutes...
but now, the bios time seems to be completely random at each reboot... it seems like the time is not kept between two successive boot... did you have the same problem?
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