IBM r61-7732-cto

[david_thinkpad]

I think I am screwed methinks.

I updated to the BIOS for middletons and left it sit for an hour. booted up used windows 7 for well over an hour. Rebooted- stuck at the thinkvantage screen. Thought that was odd. pulled the plug.

Now dead as a doornail.

It won't power up or nothing....

Any ideas? or did the titanic just sink?

[RealBlackStuff]

Remove battery and charger.
Hold the Power button down for about 20 seconds.
Connect charger only and see if it boots.
What size laptop is it, and what GPU? (CTO means sod-all).

[david_thinkpad]

14.1 inch for the screen. for the product ID I have the following

Type: 7732CTR SN/L3-L3823

I tried the 20 sec thing... I get a kick out of the dvd drive but nothing else. Couple of other lights flash but that's about it.

Although in other news the wife says I can take her's over since she never uses it.

[RealBlackStuff]

Your machine is an R61 with 14.1" widescreen and Intel graphics.
The -CTR means it is a Refurbished by IBM/Lenovo system.
Did you install the correct BIOS?
Should have been be the very last one on this page: http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/ ... ost6501443
where it says: R61 (14.1" widescreen without IEEE 1394): 7732, 7733, 7734, 7735, 7736, 7737, 7738

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[david_thinkpad]

Mine has the 1394 port. I thought and double checked that i had the right one. Mine

[RealBlackStuff]

Remove HD/CD/wifi/modem/RAM and battery, but leave keyboard connected.
Connect only the charger. Try to boot. Does it beep 1-3-3-1?
If not, your board id toast.

[david_thinkpad]

yea I am not even getting that much.. Don't know why it went like the way it did. I updated to middleton's bios on monday. Worked fine for the better part of two days. I used the bluetooth in it and then wham... no warning... and gone.

Oh well. Wife gave me her laptop to have (I bought 2 IBM r61's) one was a 7735-CTO and mine was a 7732-CTR/CTO.

When I took mine apart and compared it to hers there wasn't a lot of differences... So I put the 2.5 core 2 in hers, I put the 1440x900 monitor from mine on hers, and put in my hard drive and Viola.... I pretty much (minus bluetooth and I may change the wi-fi card as this one doesn't do as good as mine in my 7732 did)

I found also on ebay another IBM r61 that a office center retired and the resellers are wanting about $85 and it's fully functional minus a hard disk and such. They state they didn't test it beyond booting to BIOS and they show a screen shot of it booted.

Then again, I thought about getting the wife a tablet as well. She didn't use her laptop for much except to check the occasional email and such.

So for now I will concede and build her a quad core desktop machine she can be proud of.