T 42 problem with start-up, any help would be appreciated.

[rockey]

Folks, i'm a newbie here but need some help. I just purchased, from my company, a T 42 Thinkpad with docking station and so forth, it was a IBM lease pc and about 4 years old. Anyway, our pc guy at work has cleaned everything work-related off this machine and restored it back to its original state, when i bring it home a Blue screen comes up then it says windows did not start successfully and then it gives you some options of starting in safe mode and so forth, i did a system-restore and no luck. Anyway, i didnt have any luck with it so i ask our pc guy at work and he says bring it back to him and he re-runs the set up disks and i see the pc working yesterday in his office. Anyway, once again i get home and power it up and it starts the same process, Blue screen and so on. Can anyone recommend/suggest any other options that i may have with this besides asking our pc guy at work to look at it again?
thansk for any help
Rockey

[Harryc]

There are too many possibilities to list based on the information that you provided. About the only thing I can suggest is that you download, burn, and run a PC-Doctor disc and run diagnostics on everything. Also run memtest86 on the RAM.

http://www.memtest.org/
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 56222.html

[sktn77a]

Run PC Doctor if you can and if that doesn't show the problem, take it back to your PC guy - if it does it that regularly for you, it will do it for him eventually. Tell him to start it up and use it for a day. You can get the error message on the bluescreen to troubleshoot further (although sometimes, these aren't that helpful).