From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 21 15:19:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF9237B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:19:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0LNJAV12149; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:19:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200201212319.g0LNJAV12149@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: bob bobing Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my fbsd laptop just died. (NO!!!!!) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:08:26 PST." <20020121230826.32404.qmail@web12404.mail.yahoo.com> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:19:10 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm extrapolating from IBM thinkpads, but I believe the "troubleshooting" section of the product manual listed the beep-codes. I believe that most motherboards share most of the first three beeps (more likely from common bios's, I suppose). I'd start by using the drive from the second one. If that gives the same message, I would look for another laptop that uses the same kind of drive, boot into single user and back up the data that you've really been meaning to back up (or to multi-user if it won't start X) before doing anything else--but I'm paranoid :) hawk -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message