T42 no longer responds when powering up

Ok, so here's the deal. I was using the T42 to transfer files from two USB drives. After copying them, I went to dismount the USB drives via the icon in the lower right hand corner of Windows XP. So it did both, and then after the 2nd one, I pull out both.

Then the machine freezes. No mouse response, nothing from the keyboard, nothing at all. The screen is stuck with c: folder view open. So with no options, I powered the sucker down.

But when I tried to power it back up, it powered up and heard the fan start, the CD-drive grumble and the hard disk start to whirr. However, the screen was blank, there was no hard drive activity, and lastly, only the power light was on underneath the screen. Nothing else.

I tried powering on and off twice more but nada. Is it possible my T42 has been fried to death? I don't know if this has happened to people before, but please do respond with feedback or thoughts.

Thanks and happy Thanksgiving

 

Take the ram out and start the laptop with it does it beep?

 

Well I just got back from my thanksgiving trip and i decided to power it up and it turned on just fine. however, after about 15 mins of use, I suddenly got a blue screen with some text involving a memory dump and then the system rebooted. When i got back to windows, it read that a serious error had occurred and displayed the following:

 

well i turned it off after the error, and its now not turning on again. so i popped out the memory and it started beeping like you described.

Is this a case of bad ram?

 

There is the chance that either the southbridge or gpu that is cause of the problem.

 

Well i just stuck the memory in the other slot and now it powered up fine. i figure i may as well run the thinkpads built-in diagnostics to see if anything turns up.

 

Download memtest+ and prime95 then run them for couple of hrs.