X40 Blue Screen on Battery

[RiverFly]

I want to run by a situation I am having with an X40 laptop with one of my users. He has no problems when using the laptop in the office but when he takes it home and powers it on it comes up to a blue screen. He takes the battery out 2 to 5 times in order to finally get the laptop to boot. We replaced the power cord and the battery. We placed a call to IBM/Lenovo and what we were told is that its probably static causing the problem and what he needs to do is take the battery out of the system, hit the on/off button 10 times, put the battery back in and then hit the button 10 more times, then hold it down on the 11th time and it should power up. This evidently relieves the static electricity, he would need to go through this process every time he takes it home. They did say we could send it in and they could take a look at it but it does not seem like they have an idea about what they would repair on it.

This can't be right...anyone have any idea's?

[seneca]

What kind of bluescreen? Is it a bios bluescreen (could indicate a defective bios), or does it pass bios (cleanly) and start to boot windows (and get a windows bluescreen with the obligatory errormessage)?

Try to set the bios to do a thourough check before continuing to boot, just to see what happens.

You can also try booting a memtest cd and stresstest the ram (just to rule out ram-problems.)

[RiverFly]

It blue screens after post (window's blue screen). I think I am going to send it in and have the system board replaced.

[seneca]

Good call...