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Balefully Odd Outing: Part 17 of 20

2010-10-29

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Halloween contest
Gary
The contest ends this Sunday, so enter now. If you're trying to submit a video that's larger than 10M email me so we can get it up there, my host limits my post size to 10M.

Toshiba M400 doesn't boot, just displays power light.

If you're having that problem, you might try putting something like styrofoam in the hard drive section, to press hte harddrive closer to the top of the case. I just got a used M400 and it was having that problem (intermitantly wouldn't boot, wouldn't even blink the hard drive light, just held the power light on green or blinking orange), then I read on a forum that someone was able to sometimes get it to boot by pressing just below the ~ key. That's approximately where the hard drive sits, and I learned that if I removed the hard drive panel and pressed up on it before booting, that the system would boot. My guess is that the hard drive drop protection is too sensitive at boot, so it keeps the hard drive from kicking in. The styrofoam pushes up on the harddrive and keeps it more stable. Now it rarely (once booted) displays any uncertainty in the drive protection, even when I'm moving the laptop around. Just something to try. If you need more info, shoot me an email.

Ok, time for me to sleep and hopefully get rid of this headache.

part 18 delayed
Gary
Sorry everyone, it's 12:36am, and I've only half finished the comic, and I'm finding it hard to stay awake. So part 18 will show up sometime probably late morning, after I wake up.

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