X60 not booting!

[andifoz]

Can anyone advise please. When in the office I run my X60 with lid down and hooked up to an LG monitor (via VGA) and a microsoft keyboard and mouse (via a USB hub). I don't have a port replicator, so it's a direct connection. Yesterday the X60 stopped recognising the hub, then switched itself off.

Since then I have intermittently been able to boot up. The rest of the time I get "-" in the top left corner or (most common) the ThinkVantage page with no further activity - even pressing the blue ThinkVantage button has no effect.

The USB issue may be totally coincidental, but does any of this resonate - and can I do anythiing to avoid a catastrophic failure such as I read about in this forum? I have done a System Restore by the way, but it had no effect.

Thanks

[Kyocera]

Can you boot into BIOS? Run the HD Hardware test if you can.

Maybe your USB devices were looking for more power than your machine could give and caused some issues with the power supply.

Try letting it sit for a while battery out. Had a T42 do something similar years ago sat overnight and problem went away, I think draining the caps compleetly is what does it.

[richk]

Reset the machine. Piull the main battery and unplug it. Press the power button several tiumes, holding it for 10 seconds on the last press. Put it back together and try to turn it on.

[andifoz]

Afraid that neither of those worked guys. At start up all the lights on the display light up, the Thinkpad screen comes up then just power, battery and the "pc in operation" lights are on, with no disk activity displayed. The Thinkpad screen just stays until I power off.

Any other thoughts?

[Harryc]

Can you get into BIOS? Try booting any bootable CD, does it work consistently? A Linux Live CD is a good test. Boot up with one a few times as a test.

[adrianaitken]

Pull out the memory and either re-seat it or ideally try someone elses.

[andifoz]

I tried removing and replacing the memory - no luck.

How do I boot into bios? Do you have a link that shows me how? Assume I can download something and run it through a memory stick, given I have no CD drive?

[Harryc]

To get into BIOS, hold down the F1 key on boot.

[andifoz]

No - nothing happening with F1. Same Thinkpad screen.