🚀 go-pugleaf

thank you for your help! the problem is solved with your help and the 
computer is running again. 

the received answers to my problem 'computer doesn't start again when
i press the power key' mentioned three possible causes:

1) the power supply is dead
2) the battery is dead or has bad contact
3) damaged data in non-volatile ram buffered by the battery

as the total opposite of a hardware freak i am not able to check 1) so
i tried first to check 2) the proper operation of the battery. Pasi 
'Albert' Ojala <po87553@cs.tut.fi> suggested to measure the voltage of
the battery between the shield of the ethernet tube (ground) and pin 6
of the monitor outlet (without power cord connected). there were the
correct 2.5 V or more - the battery was ok! now i performed the final
check 3^) i opened the next (oh so many nice little pieces!) and re-
moved the battery for about 30s then i inserted it again (check the
proper direction!). several answers said that this would destroy the 
eventually bad data buffered in the non-volatile ram. the answers said 
that doing this does destroy correct data (boot parameters, hardware 
password) too. after assembling the computer together again (service 
friendly - one screw!) i pressed the power key... ... ... WHOW the
computer is starting!!! it tried first to check for ethernet to boot
from - ok this was caused by the default boot parameters and could
be fixed by setting the correct boot device according to the sysadmin
manual...


thank you very much!
      stefan

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