I had this problem on my old IBM LS40SX laptop. The only thing I had to to whean all "safety/secrecy" talk was over, was to short-circuit a small switch on the moterboard for 10 seconds- But it startet with the same "the motherboard must be replaced" Thor Řivind Jensen Dep of Administration and Organization Theory Univ of Bergen phone +47 55 21 21 53 fax +47 55 32 12 89 mob: +47 946 246 90