Thinkpad R51 not posting

[justaW]

Since I've joined usenet I figure I might as well ask.

I own a R51 for a very long time. When I got it, it worked flawlessly
(about 10 years ago, the battery even worked).
However a few years ago I wanted to try to have it boot from a CF card
instead of the slow IDE drive.

When I tried to boot the device, it never passes through post. The
system fans spin up to max, the power LED lights up, but it never
progresses through boot. I can't even access the bios.

I recall seeing something a long time ago on a forum that this model
might be suffering from a poor solder somewhere on the mainboard, but I
haven't the slightest idea on where I might need to look for that. I
don't even think that site still exists. I didn't think anything of it
at the time, because my device worked, but now that I have it sitting on
a shelf collecting dust, I still want to try to salvage it.

Does anyone know anything about a bad soldier on the R51? The model
number fully is R51 2889-CTO.

I've done everything short of disassembling the device, but it will not
post regardless of if there is or is not the hard drive, battery, or CD
drive connected.

Thanks

[Computer Nerd Kev]

justaW <jus...@noreply.invalid> wrote:
> Since I've joined usenet I figure I might as well ask.

See my reply in comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad.

If you want to post a question to two groups, then please include
both groups (comma-separated) in the "Newsgroups: " header of one
post, rather than starting two separate threads where people can
waste time having the same discussions separately.

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