Summary: I recently received a laptop that needed work. I have booted up the laptop once or twice but it shuts off at random times during boot. usually while i...
Summary: at boot up i get an error message: ERROR: 08611 So i went to IBMs site and there inst a definition fo rtha tnumber.. Then i went to test it on IBM's B...
Summary: I've had my IBM ThinkPad 600E in storage for about 4 years. I turn it on and get error messages 161 and 163. I was also getting the date and time ...
Summary: Hello All, My IBM thinkpad T30 wouldn't boot. On power up it displays the diagonal IBM Thinkpad splash and says press F1 to enter setup, F12 to sel...
Summary: I'm trying to put XP on my dad's old laptop computer. It's an IBM THINKPAD model, I can't find any model number info other than 2647 on the bottom. An...
Summary: I have an old IBM Thinkpad 365 laptop. A friend of mine tried to install Windows 98 and the hard-drive got screwed up and now it will not boot. I am n...
Summary: Hello, I have a laptop that had PC100 256 memory in it. Place in some PC133 that I got off ebay and it didn't work. with or without the other PC100 in...
Summary: I'm working on a IBM Thinkpad 240 Laptop (Celron 300, 128...) and I cant get it to boot off a hard drive. I have partition formatted and sys'd 2 diffe...
Summary: hello , i just bought new internal dvd/cd rom to replace my old broken one on my IBM thinkpad a22m. but i have a problem to make new installation OS s...
Summary: I own a T42 and the DVN Adapter broke when I dropped it the other day, so now the battery won't charge. I called IBM and to replace this part, the en...
Summary: Hi there, I just bought a ThinkPad T42 from ebay. The laptop appears good, as the initial BIOS shows up and is looking for a hard drive. It didn't ...
Summary: every now and then, my computer will not boot up and I receive a black screen with two beeps: message is hard drive cannot be found. After several ...
Summary: I have laptop IBM ThinkPad T40, and when I turn it on it starts to boot but then it prompts black screen and shows a place to enter a key. I do not ...
Summary: i need help loading a OS onto my IBM thinkpad 560, have PCMCIA Cd rom, but cant get it to recognize the CD rom, so if anyone could plz help me, would ...
Summary: Hi, My IBM thinkpad gives I9990301 error. I went through website and it mentions as given below. Does anyone have a idea about how to rest boot drive...
Summary: 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, bu...
Summary: I just tuned up an IBM ThinkPad, i series 1500. Ran Windows Update, Installed Norton System Works & Internet Security 2003, updated all files, ran all...
Summary: ibm thinkpad a22e locks up on boot up from a cold start. once you restart it works fine. also if you shut down and restart within 15m inutes it also ...
Summary: Hey guys, recently my HD in my dell crashed and I needed to replace it. I pulled out my IBM thinkpad that I still use once in a while and grabbed the ...
Summary: I dropped by IBM thinkpad today while it was on - there are no visible damages. However it now refuses to boot to the OS - it starts directly to the I...
Summary: I'm back visiting home for a few days, and I have an old laptop here (very old, it's a PII IBM ThinkPad 600E, but it does the job for e-mail and web b...
Summary: I have an IBM thinkpad 600E I had the 161 and 163 error codes and unable to boot up the computer. I was checking the rams and i accidently pulled out ...
Summary: I've got a IBM Thinkpad 750c from a friend that could'nt get it running. When booting, there are two beeps and two codes: 161 and 163. a few seconds l...