power up issue, intermittent problem

[yourself]

Hi all,

I am having intermittent problems starting up and can't really pin down the problem.

Either when I shutdown or hibernate my T43, it won't restart. Not unless I fiddle with the power supply in and out of the port on the laptop, and a combination of taking in and out the battery as well.

Could this be a battery problem or a motherboard problem? everytime I disconnect the battery or the power supply and press the power button the battery LED flickers then nothing again, until the combination works again, and I can startup.

When I have startup issues, the only way I can startup is to have the battery disconnected and the power supply plugged in before it will power on.

This gets very annoying as you can probably tell.

any ideas guys?