Hi Guys. New here. My IBM ThinkPad iSeries model 1472 will not boot up. I took the battery out and tried to boot it up with the power cord only, but that can't be the issue. It's getting juice. It tries to boot up, but after 4 or 5 seconds it shuts off again. It will not even power up long enough to read a drive. It's a pentium II, 64 MB RAM, running on Windows 98. I've had it for five years and there's a LOT of information that I need on it. Can anyone please help me? Thanks all Silver

There was a thread not too long ago similar to this and if I recall the fix was to remove BOTH the battery and AC adapter then press and hold the power button in place for @ least two minutes..(time it). Then plug in the AC adapter and power it back on. Goodluck. ____________________________ The greatest risk is not taking one

=O( Thanks so much for the help, Sabertooth, but it didn't work. I searched the threads and found a posting with a similar problem but no other solution was suggested besides checking the memory is in place and making sure that nothing else was disturbed. Any other ideas guys? Thanks all Silver

sounds like your cpu has failed a flick of the post led,s would point to this. as for your data its safe on the hdd and not damaged. either put the hdd in another sys and retrieve the data or buy a 2.5 to 3.5 adaptor and fit the drive in your main pc then remove the data . mark1316

If you can get to the fan assembly check it, it may have gone kaput! ____________________________ The greatest risk is not taking one

I was the one that posted that fix originally. You must not have anything hooked up to the computer not a printer telephone cord for modem nothing. You must remove the battery and the power adapter. You hold the power button down for two minutes to purge out the residual memory and power. Then you plug only the power adaper in and try to boot up.Sometimes you have to hold the power button down a little longer to get it to boot. If it does not boot then try unplugging the cord and hold it down another two minutes. Try again with just the battery. If neither work you may have a bad battery as well as power cord or possibly just a bad power cord that is not charging the battery. Hope that clarified things...... "In my next life, I am going to have more memory installed"

I just wanted to thank you. Even though we don't have a laptop, we were going through the exact same problem with the power. It would start to boot up, then seconds later all power shut down. This computer, old as it is, worked perfectly just one week ago. My husband bought a brand new one and so we shut this one down. We were trying to boot it up again so that we could remove all our information from the hard drive. The computer was only borrowed so the hard drive had to be returned...we HAD to get this computer going. Well even though all this advice was for a laptop and we had a desktop, the first suggestion at the top of this post worked! That first suggestion of pulling the power cord and holding in the power button works. We plugged it back in and it kicked in perfectly Thank you ~Gale~