IBM ThinkPad A30 User Manual

Beep symptoms
Symptom or error FRU or action, in sequence
One beep and a blank,
unreadable, or flashing LCD.
1. Reseat the LCD
connector.
2. LCD assembly.
3. External CRT.
4. System board.
One long and two short beeps,
and a blank or unreadable
LCD.
1. System board.
2. LCD assembly.
3. DIMM.
Two short beeps with error
codes.
POST error. See “Numeric
error codes” on page 48.
Two short beeps with blank
screen.
1. System board.
2. DIMM.
Three short beeps, pause,
three more short beeps, and
one short beep.
1. DIMM.
2. System board
Only cursor appears. Reinstall operating system.
No beep symptoms
Symptom or error FRU or action, in sequence
No beep, power-on indicator
on, LCD blank, and no POST.
1. Make sure that every
connector is connected
tightly and correctly.
2. DIMM.
3. System board.
No beep, power-on indicator
on, and LCD blank during
POST.
1. Reseat DIMM.
2. System board.
The power-on password
prompt.
A power-on password or a
supervisor password is set.
Type the password and press
Enter.
The hard-disk password
prompt.
A hard-disk password is set.
Type the password and press
Enter.
The DOS full screen looks
smaller.
Start the ThinkPad
Configuration program and set
the Screen expansion
function.
Symptom-to-FRU index
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IBM ThinkPad A30 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	ThinkPad A30
Category	Laptop
Language	English