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Thread ID: 10011	2001-07-01 05:53:00	Old Blind Dog needs a new trick	Guest (0)	Press F1

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14790	2001-07-01 05:53:00	I have been given a old 386 laptop in bits that I have reassembled, but cannot get it to display anything on either LCD or attached CRT monitor. When it boots, it just beeps a sequence of short sounds, invokes the HDD and won't display a thing. (yes I have tried the contrast and brilliance controls. I believe the BIOS battery is stuffed too. I have tried a few key sequences that I thought could be common BIOS setup configuration settings but to no avail. I believe this is an old PC Direct laptop and uses an Award BIOS chipset. If you know of anyone that may have a manual for a PC Direct Laptop of this vintage I would appreciate hearing from them. even for a series of default screen parameter key strokes in order so that I can set to configure this thing to at least fire up with a display. I know you say stop wasting your own and my time but you and I may get a bit of satisfaction from getting it to go.	Guest (0)
14791	2001-07-05 12:12:00	The beeps are an error code telling you somthing is wrong. If you have / can find the manual for the bios it will tell you what is wrong. Or check all the connections etc.	Guest (0)
14792	2001-07-06 09:04:00	Thanks for the info. Any suggestions as to how to find out about the BIOS is there any setting or hardware serial number I should look for to find out more about it.	Guest (0)
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