I had to replace the battery on my computer. My model had a holder you can pop the battery out and put in a new one. I restart the unit, but I just get the white screen. I am tried hooking up and external screen and I get no output to the external screen.
Any hints on what to try next?
Adding follow up notification.
After you replace the battery, you have to fix your BIOS settings because they’ve gone back to default.
Plug in an external monitor and a keyboard, and hold down the Delete key while powering your surface. Set Display Device to CRT + LCD panel type. Set Resolution to 800x600 18 bit. It should work on restart.
There is a detailed set of instructions in a post from a couple days ago about changing the battery, take a look at that, there msy be other BIOS settings to change as well.
I saw that post, but when I hold down the delete key on the USB keyboard or the F8 or F2 nothing happens. I don’t get any image out to the external monitor. I cannot get a bios screen at all.
There is power getting to the internal computer and when the iLive surface is powered up, I see the network connection start blinking that is coming from the computer. Those are the only lights I see.
I would imagine if I plugged in a usb keyboard I would get power to the keyboard and the num lock and cap lock lights would come on. I don’t seem to be getting any power out even though I know there is power getting to SBC. It seems like the SBC needs to be turned on.
Ugh. Suddenly I’m in the same boat. After taking apart and reassembling my T112, my SBC seems to not work at all, like you said, no power to the USB keyboard and no signal to the monitor. I thought the exact same thing - it felt like the SBC needs to be turned on. I’m wishing I hadn’t fixed what wasn’t that badly broke.
Somebody help!
Anybody have any suggestions?
Can you let me know which SBC you have? When I repaired mine I had to use one of the pins on the SBC to start the computer part of it. It’s essentially the same as a motherboard header on a reguar desktop PC board.
If you’ve got the Fujitsu board then have a look for the Front Panel Connector, on mine I needed to short pins 8 & 6 together & that booted the SBC. After that it’s a case of going into the bios & putting att the settings back to where they should be.
Here is my computer. I think it is a Fujitsi but more updated.
Dewey - that is the Fujitsu SBC. Try what fender_jazz_72 recommended.
I have the Axiomtek 1.5Ghz SBC. Is there any info on trying to get mine to boot up?
I got through a weekend festival with no SBC by using my laptop and the new Mixing Station iLive app. It was rough but I got through it.
Surely I can make it through using the Edit software and mixing station, but you can do any reconfiguring of the surface without the computer working.
Hey Dewey,
Did you get any further with my suggestion above?
I have not tried it. Do you need a external monitor attached when try this?
Also what is the best way to access the computer fully? I have taken off the sides and the back of the T112, but I can’t seem to get enough access to any of the pins that you mentioned.
So I took the screws holding the SBC out and was able to wiggle the SBC out the console. I then bought a cheap power PC power switch from Amazon. I hooked this up to pins 6 and 8 as per the recommendation and the motherboard documentation. I put the SBC back in place and powered up the console. The SBC didn’t go on when the console powered up, but when I pressed this the external PC power switch, it sprang to life and I had video on the external monitor and the USB keyboard was working. I followed the BIOS reset instructions, restarted the console and the touchscreen came to life and booted up.
Thanks so much for letting me fix. I hope this will help other people out who are having the same issue.
That’s excellent news, well done 
I got the computer working, but at this time I am unable to get the computer to communicate with the mix rack and T112 surface. I have hit the network reset buttons on the surface and the mix rack and they IP addresses for the Mix rack and surface are the correct ones that computer should be looking for, but the computer cannot connect. Is there any configuration I need to do in the computer BIOS to setup the network?
