Hi Rafael
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Rafael Machado rafaelrodrigues.machado@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is that this time, with this x230, after I connected the postcard and turned the system on, the system stopped to boot. And the post card does not stop at a specific post code.
These cheap POST80 displays do not use PCI-e signalling. Looking at Wistron Dasher-2 schematics that to my knowledge is (a/the) x230 mainboard, required LPC signals are not routed to either of the mini-PCI-e slots. There is a separate (unpopulated) connector CN14 and card-edge GF1 to use for post80 display.
What happens now, is that every time I turn the system on, the battery led blinks 3 times, being two blinks followed by a 1 second stop and after that the last blink, and the system reboots.
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The post card I'm using is this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/3in1-Mini-PCI-E-PCI-LPC-Tester-PC-Desktop-Diagnosti...
I have one these as well. That mini-PCI-e card-edge is not so great, it is missing pads for pins 1 and 2. It also appears to be narrower what the specs says, so you need to be very careful with proper alignment on installation. Also have laptop battery removed while doing so!
So my questions are:
-Does someone believe this postcard could have bricked the system? (Why?) -Any idea about how to solve that?
I would measure the 3.3V power rail on the mainboard (VCC3WLAN) . If you had installed the postcard improperly/skewed to the socket you could have caused some shortcut to GND and damaged the on-board power circuitry. Other than that, I don't see how this post card could harm a x230.
Hope this helps, Kyösti
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Kyösti Mälkki