lights flicker 3 times but not coming on
lights flicker 3 times but not coming on
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Was the charger pugged in when the light was blinking?
With the charger disconnected take out the battery and press the power button for about 30 seconds. Plug in the charger and press power button does it pwoer up?
You don't mention which light was blinking. There are at least three.
- Drive light - blinking = drive is being accessed.
- Battery light - blinking = low battery level. You may need a new battery. The computer is about 15 years old.
- Power light - blinking = computer is in sleep mode
Power on and press <F10> key for the Setup menu and select the Diagnostics menu and run the following:
- Select Hard Disk Selt Test and then
- Memory Test
Does that help?
Just incidently, this computer can be upgraded to a SSD SATA drive and the RAM increased to 4GB for better perfomance. All quite cheaply.
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hey! i had this same issue when i first acquired my tx2000. i'm also the author of this page and i've done a pretty large amount of stuff with this laptop. now i'm pretty sure that you're likely experiencing the same issue as me where the keyboard shorts out. if you did manage to get into the bios at least once and it would not stop beeping. then the keyboard is likely your culprit, there are replacement keyboard on aliexpress for about 10 bucks
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Would not disconnecting the key board not isolate this possiblilty?
Page 47 in the Service manual.
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I also had one of these that sat for a long time.
When started, the same thing was happening.
Turns out the CPU fan had frozen from disuse.
Replaced fan, runs fine.
(If the fan is not running for any reason, the computer shuts down)
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