T60 doesn't start :(
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:53 am
Just got an issue with my T60 (T7200, purchased back in 2006). Its out of warranty, and I'm trying to troubleshoot it myself. Would appreciate help!
Last summer when I purchased my T400s, I stopped using my T60. Never had issues with it until now. Booted up last week, run System Update (all the drivers, including new bios flash). Updated all XP stuff, Firefox, Spyware Doctor - tried to get everything up to date. Right from the start I start having system freeze once a day. No blue screen, just a screen freeze where I can't move the pointer, no ctrl-alt-del, no alt-tab. Had to hit power button to reboot laptop. Than, laptop was running OK for a few days until it start happening again and more than once a day. Now, I can't even start the laptop. Hit the power button, get ThinkPad splash screen, and than I just get black blank screen and "z" + battery + ac indicator in the status panel lights. I tried putting a battery from my other T60, tried booting it up without battery (just AC) no luck. I also got into BIOS util and tried to run HDD diagnostics but its stuck at 0%. Do you guys think its HDD issue? I can't even get to Safe Mode to boot up XP. Any utils I can put on USB stick or burn to CDR so I can bootup into that and run HDD diagnostics? Anything else I'm missing? Please advice.
Thanks!
Last summer when I purchased my T400s, I stopped using my T60. Never had issues with it until now. Booted up last week, run System Update (all the drivers, including new bios flash). Updated all XP stuff, Firefox, Spyware Doctor - tried to get everything up to date. Right from the start I start having system freeze once a day. No blue screen, just a screen freeze where I can't move the pointer, no ctrl-alt-del, no alt-tab. Had to hit power button to reboot laptop. Than, laptop was running OK for a few days until it start happening again and more than once a day. Now, I can't even start the laptop. Hit the power button, get ThinkPad splash screen, and than I just get black blank screen and "z" + battery + ac indicator in the status panel lights. I tried putting a battery from my other T60, tried booting it up without battery (just AC) no luck. I also got into BIOS util and tried to run HDD diagnostics but its stuck at 0%. Do you guys think its HDD issue? I can't even get to Safe Mode to boot up XP. Any utils I can put on USB stick or burn to CDR so I can bootup into that and run HDD diagnostics? Anything else I'm missing? Please advice.
Thanks!