I may have the same problem, I can start it if I do not have the power cord attached. If I try with the power cord attached I have the same issue and have to remove the cord and battery, replace the batt and hit start and it will boot up fine. Really weird and no solution thus far, failing batt is ...

I have a T60 (Type 2007-DD1) that all of a sudden refuses to power on. If I plug in the power adapter, the green power light comes on. When pressing the power button, the battery and power lights flicker once, then turn off, and nothing happens. No fan starts, no beep codes, no nothing. The lights s...

I have an R51 (1830-DD2) that appears to have something strange happening when booting. It has XP Pro, and the normal black Windows XP logo (after the system POSTs) appears briefly, then it displays the small startup box. At "Preparing Network Connections," the system seems to take forever to get th...