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Certainly worth a try. I don't like leaving stuff plugged in overnight but I'll try it tomorrow.

Cheers,

Chris

I reckon PLDs suggestion is the way to go, but I'd leave it for much longer. When you plug it in to charge, do you get any indication it is charging? I had an old laptop which was unused for over 4 weeks, and had to charge it overnight before it would switch on. HTH.

Rather than plugging in and trying to boot up immediately, try leaving plugged in for half an hour first to allow the battery to take some charge before booting...

No lights come on. Normally the keyboard lights up. The battery unfortunately is inaccessible.

I don't have a monitor but I can connect it to the TV which I will try in a while but it looks like nothing's working.

 

Chris

Ok for the complete idiot 

Holding the power on/off button down for 30 seconds forces the laptop to turn off, it won't turn on again unless you release the button and then press it again.

Is it possible for you to remove and then re-insert the battery?

Do you have an external monitor that you could connect to see if it's the screen that's dead rather than the laptop, alternatively when you turn it on, do lights on the keyboard and elsewhere come on and it's just the screen that's blank?

Regards,

John P

Quote from: njee20 on April 24, 2025, 12:16:03 AMI don't use a Z21, but you don't need to program each function, they're all there, just push each function button. You may need to choose an appropriate icon for each though to remind you which is the toilet announcement and which is the drivers door or whatever!

Hi @njee20

By default a new loco doesn't have any function buttons enabled on the Z21 app.
You have to select the functions you want to use in the vehicles editor before they can be used in the Steering (Driving) section.

All this can be simplified by copying the settings from a similar loco when a new one is set up.

Regards,

John P

Thank you for the replies, looking at my original post I realise it's rubbish. What I should have put in it was that I know Railmatch do an acrylic green but I have fairly good access to vallejo so wondered if their was anything suitable. Sorry for wasting your time gents I might try Phoenix enamel. Thanks again

A plea for help, please, gang...

As my wife's wrist has been out of action for nearly 2 months, she hasn't been using her laptop (Asus ZenBook). The last time it was used was about a month ago when I ran a backup and it worked fine then. Mrs P tried turning it on today and nothing at all happened. Tried it plugged in and unplugged. Tried swapping power leads. Tried holding the on/off button down for 30 seconds. Zippo. Anybody any ideas how we can kick it into life again before I take it down to the laptop menders? (Talk as you would to a complete idiot...)

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: njee20 on April 24, 2025, 12:16:03 AMI don't use a Z21, but you don't need to program each function, they're all there, just push each function button. You may need to choose an appropriate icon for each though to remind you which is the toilet announcement and which is the drivers door or whatever!

My first priority when back from my trip will be to program the toilet announcement!

Thanks for all the tips again.

I had a disappointing reply from the Traintrax (Kato dealers in UK) suggesting DCC fitting would be "very difficult" on our first gen Eurostar/TGV Sud-Est (the orange one)/older TGV Atlantique. I'd be fairly sure that none of them have DCC sockets ready but does anyone have another view?