T60 stops booting at a blinking cursor
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:24 pm
Hi guys and gals,
I'm looking at a nice specced T60 on eBay here in Germany. The price might end up low because it's being sold as non-functional. The guy says it will show the POST but then stop booting at a black screen with a blinking cursor. If the HDD is removed, it will show a no-boot-device error. This pretty much looks like a trashed OS installation or HDD failure but the odd thing is that it does the same when booted from a Windows installation CD. It shows the blue screen where it loads all the drivers and then hangs on the same black screen with a blinking cursor.
No beeps or whatever. What could it be? RAM?
I'm looking at a nice specced T60 on eBay here in Germany. The price might end up low because it's being sold as non-functional. The guy says it will show the POST but then stop booting at a black screen with a blinking cursor. If the HDD is removed, it will show a no-boot-device error. This pretty much looks like a trashed OS installation or HDD failure but the odd thing is that it does the same when booted from a Windows installation CD. It shows the blue screen where it loads all the drivers and then hangs on the same black screen with a blinking cursor.
No beeps or whatever. What could it be? RAM?