Compaq Portable III fails POST?

Don wrote: I think you should get a keyboard error number on the screen, so unless the keyboard problem you have has zapped the 5v supply to the keyboard and caused some other collateral damage to the system, you have some other problem as well. <snip> On mine all the individual wires insulation that was in the bundle seem to be okay. there is a huge amount of fine wire, that flew out, and some shield wrapping, that makes it look worse than it is. I think the actual 5 conductors's insulation survived, not the stupid sheathing that they used to try to make the stiff curled action work. <snip> good enough if you have a drive type 2 or 4, which were the most common drive types shipped with it. I customized my bios, to support a 512mb drive, and it requires being able to do up higher. There were some excellent setup utilities that were introduced after the AT was out for a while, whose name escapes me, that could do higher numbers to be compatable with such as the phoenix bios that began to come out then. <snip> the drive should spin and seek at least in the 360k and 1.2mb variety, whether a floppy is in it or not. I will make the familiar "growl" due to using a slower than normal seek pulse train when the bios comes up, to be able to baby all forms of floppies. Most accessories fit in both, and I think the frame is identical. By the way, the setup disks are on the compaq web site. I'll have to scrounge what I sent to Don Y and send you a link. I have them somewhere also, if you cannot find them. They are on the ftp site, not the normal Hp / Compaq web site. I think there was a search engine over ftp.compaq.com that let you do intelligent searches and hit the setup disks but they seem to be gone. so now all you have is a huge list of "SP's" if I recall that have to be expanded and written to floppy after downloading. and little info as to what is which. However they seem to have a long list of old stuff there. Jim