Shamb1es's shoutbox http://my.afterdawn.com/shamb1es/shoutbox.cfm All shoutbox comments are stored in user's profile at my.afterdawn.com. hourly 2 johncs http://my.afterdawn.com/shamb1es/shoutbox.cfm/64581 Thanks again for the tip, Shambles. I'm dumfounded and very pleased with the results. Popped the CMOS battery and left it out for about an hour. Put the laptop back together and fired it up. To my surprise, I now have power to both hard drive and DVD driv...