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    blue screen of death

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by scott55, Sep 9, 2009.

  1. scott55

    scott55 Newbie

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    I have a CF-51's and it just crashed with a blue screen. when attempting to restart all lights flash on and then go out except for power and MP lights(multimedia pocket device status) no fan or hardrive noise. The lights stay on til I hold the power button down about 4-5 seconds. I'm hoping it not the mother board but I don't know enough to even guess what it is.

    Scott
     
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  2. Alex

    Alex Super Moderator

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    Take any additional ram out
    Take the optical drive out
    Take the hard drive out
    Reboot abd see if its stable by hitting F2 and go into bios


    Alex
     
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    scott55 Newbie

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    Tried all the above, nothing happen except the lights. I had already tried it without the HD and cd/dvd. I have 2 1gb stick i took one out at a time and put one in each slot at a time. Nothing just dead except the power and multimedia light.
     
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    Alex Super Moderator

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    Not good then

    It won't run long enough to display screen so you cannot set bios defaults

    If you feel comfortable with disassembly there is a slim chance that removing all power sources, and disconnecting the lithium bios battery for 10 minuites ,it will reset to defaults and boot
    But that is a long shot
    Check back tomorrow and others might comment on this
    I will email you a link to the manual

    Alex
     
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  5. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    You might also want to try removing your wifi card... After that see if it will boot to DVD or floppy if you have them...
     
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    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    Doesn't the CF-51 have a small bit of rame soldered to the MoBo? If so, remove ALL additional RAM & try it that way...

    mnem
    Couldn't hoyt...
     
    mnementh, Sep 10, 2009
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