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    T410 dead for good?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by zephxiii, Mar 20, 2015.

  1. zephxiii

    zephxiii Notebook Geek

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    I just had my sister score a T410 w/ SSD off ebay, it was working good till she let the batt die while it was in sleep *rollsyeyes* and now it won't turn on.

    I had her pull the batt and power cable and hit the power button to try and drain and reset it but it didn't work. All it does is turn on (turns on kb light too) for a lil bit, no beeps, then turns back off.

    Well that sucks, any ideas? I'd imagine she probably could return it.
     
    zephxiii, Mar 20, 2015
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    kevroc Notebook Evangelist

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    Did she hold the power button down long enough, I think it's 15-20 seconds. No real reason for it to stop working, depends how much troubleshooting you want to do, but I'd try getting into bios.

    Turning on and back off is typical low battery. It detects there's no juice so it just turns back off. Usually there's a message that flashes in the upper left corner like "critically low battery, powering off".

    You could try pulling the battery and plugging straight into ac, then powering on, could be a bad battery. That would be my guess versus a bad Thinkpad, not sure I've ever seen a Thinkpad go bad :) Wouldn't be surprised if it's an aftermarket battery at that versus oem for a laptop of that age.
     
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    zephxiii Notebook Geek

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    Well i'll have her hold the button for 20s longer with no batt or ac cord? That's what I told her. Then to take batt out and use ac cord only if that doesn't work. It had already been charging for an hour which should have been plenty.

    Dammit what a bummer.
     
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    zephxiii Notebook Geek

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    If it does come back alive I'm going to have her check the bios version to see if it is on really old version or something.
     
    zephxiii, Mar 20, 2015
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    kevroc Notebook Evangelist

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    If it's a bad battery, then no amount of "charging time" is going to matter.

    Yes, Battery Out, AC Cord Unplugged, Hold Power Button for 20-30 seconds, that does a magic drain on it and resets it. See the link below about 1/2 way down the page. I've done this numerous times over the years and it always works.

    http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-2222505/lenovo-laptop-wont-turn.html

    The fact that it turns on for a minute and back off sounds like a bad battery.
     
    kevroc, Mar 21, 2015
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    I'd strongly advise against updating BIOS on what seems to be an unstable system.
     
    ajkula66, Mar 21, 2015
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    She tried some other things but couldn't get it to power up so she just returned it. On the hunt for another..
     
    zephxiii, Mar 26, 2015
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