T60 is not booting up-no hard disk activity-no boot screen

[muneer_b]

help me out people ;

i had updated my laptop wit IBM system update . it had downloaded win flash & started installing it. All of a sudden somehow my laptops power went out . This caused the laptops to produce beeps & gave me a blue screen full of errors.

When i restarted my laptop ; it doesnt start!!!!!. there is no boot screen , no hard disk activity & no any options(only black/blank screen) . I downloaded the bootable BIOS update CD , but it doesnt run when i insert it into the laptop on startup. I tried all the options posted in the forum here. from pressing fn + space bar , fn + f4 , fn + f7(with an external monitor)

Please note the hard disk activity monitor shows no blinks.


PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!!!!!!!

[steveg47]

Truely unfortunate but trust me there is nothing you can do now but send your t60 in for service.

[Nebzar]

help me out people ;

i had updated my laptop wit IBM system update . it had downloaded win flash & started installing it.

You mean you were updating the Bios? If yes, to which version, to 2.11?

Thanks and good luck!

[muneer_b]

yes , it was updating BIOS , i dont really recall the version number.
for your info , this t60 is a wide screen edition which i know has a different BIOS from the regular t60 BIOS. A reason for this could be system update downloaded the wrong BIOS . Thanks God i had updated the BIOS only on one laptop(i have to configure two T60s) & havent updated the BIOS on the second laptop

Another information i could add is that the laptop comes with vista Business . Since the place i work in dont as yet fully support windows xp for our cleints , we format laptops & install windows XP pro onto them.

They were couple of solutions in lenovo webiste . As in unplug power cable ; power supply ; battery , dvd rom ; RAM . But those really didnt help.

The laptop starts but there is no any activity going on. I can eject & put in CD`s , but those CDs dont run.

[gt5l]

I had this issue before (years ago) with a micron laptop wher eit failed during the BIOS flash and I was able to recover it using a BIOS flash floppy. I know the t60 does not havea floppy but there may be a way to work around this issue without having to send the laptop back to Lenovo. Have you conacted Lenovo yet? I would be interested to hear what they have to say.

[andyP]

I've just looked at a T60 wide: 8744-HDG
BIOS Version 1.04 7IET23WW. The default boot order is first USB Floppy, then CD followed by USB CD and HDD0.
It may be worth downloading and trying to load a new BIOS from FDD, if that doesn't work I think Lenovo need to come up with some ideas for you.

Good Luck

[muneer_b]

Thanks a lot gt5l & andyP.

I have to get my hand on a portable floppy disk drive from the office. I have to try this one out.

Could i have a link from where to get the files for the bootable BIOS update floppy.

I have checked on lenovo website ; there is only a bootable BIOS cd files.

[andyP]

Thanks a lot gt5l & andyP.

I have to get my hand on a portable floppy disk drive from the office. I have to try this one out.

Could i have a link from where to get the files for the bootable BIOS update floppy.

I have checked on lenovo website ; there is only a bootable BIOS cd files.

Ouch That's not good news. I've just searched the Lenovo site for the BIOS number, all results were for Cds.
I know you said CDs didn't work in a previous post, were these the BIOS update CDs? If not it may be worth a try, but this is sadly not looking good.

[muneer_b]

Thanks a lot gt5l & andyP.

I have to get my hand on a portable floppy disk drive from the office. I have to try this one out.

Could i have a link from where to get the files for the bootable BIOS update floppy.

I have checked on lenovo website ; there is only a bootable BIOS cd files.

Ouch That's not good news. I've just searched the Lenovo site for the BIOS number, all results were for Cds.
I know you said CDs didn't work in a previous post, were these the BIOS update CDs? If not it may be worth a try, but this is sadly not looking good.

Yes, it was the BIOS update CDs . I tired the same BIOS boot CD on another T60 laptop , & it was booting .
Is their any other suggestion ?

If not I guess i have to hand it in over to the service centre.

[andyP]

muneer_b wrote:

If not I guess i have to hand it in over to the service centre.

Regretably I don't think you have any option.