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I've been having a string of bad luck with my laptops lately and my T61p is the latest victim. Put a fresh install of Win7 Ultimate on it, loaded all the typical Lenovo drivers and it was running great. I noticed that there was a single device driver with a question mark next to it. Thought it was maybe the turbo memory driver. So, installed the intel turbo memory driver for Win 7 (after opening up my laptop, I found that I do not have turbo memory installed). Restarted--dead. I got 3 beeps (one long, two short) and a black screen.

I've tried the following things:
1) Safe mode - fail.
2) Booting into BIOS - fail.
3) Trying to start from the optical drive - fail.
4) Unplugging CMOS battery and restarting - fail.
5) Looking for turbo memory module - fail...apparently I don't have one (I thought I did).

Not sure what else to do, and at my wits end because this is my work/school laptop. Is my laptop hosed, or can it still be salvaged? Would really appreciate any assistance and happy to provide an appreciation donation to anyone who can help me get it up and running again. This laptop really is my pride and joy.

Those turbo-memories are notorious to fail.
Remove it and try booting again.

Sorry, I probably should have explained it more clearly. I installed the turbo memory driver thinking that I had turbo memory in my Thinkpad. I don't have turbo memory in my Thinkpad.

RealBlackStuff wrote:Those turbo-memories are notorious to fail.
Remove it and try booting again.

The driver shouldn't install if there's no Turbo memory in there. Sounds like a hardware failure somewhere. The maintenance manual got a section on beeps and error codes check as a start.

The only idea that comes to mind is to boot from a Linux live CD/USB or maybe a Windows rescue disc, then delete the files of turbo memory driver. There may be a .sys file that's loaded even in safe mode, so you'll have to find that.

axur-delmeria wrote:The only idea that comes to mind is to boot from a Linux live CD/USB or maybe a Windows rescue disc, then delete the files of turbo memory driver. There may be a .sys file that's loaded even in safe mode, so you'll have to find that.

It won't even boot to BIOS. How is it going to boot to any OS?

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht035729

One long and two short beeps, and a blank or unreadable LCD. | 1. System board 2. LCD assembly 3. DIMM


It is dead.

Maybe unplug CMOS again, remove all power / main battery / AC, plug in keyboard and do the power button trick (press and hold for awhile to drain everything), leave it sitting unpowered for a bit... plug it in try again? It does not look good.

I apologize for misreading the first post.

Try booting without any RAM installed. If you get the 1-3-3-1 beep, then it's possible that it's a RAM problem.