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    T60 doesn't turn on

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by shadowpool, Sep 15, 2007.

  1. shadowpool

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    Hello everyone! I bought a T60 about six or so months ago and after about four months the laptop wouldn't turn on, intermittently, like there was a problem with the power button. I'd press it and nothing would happen at all. I'd press it a few hundred times, take apart the button assembly, put it back together--nothing. Then I'd leave it sitting for awhile, come back, press the button once, and it would just magically turn on.

    But last month, my power cable developed a broken wire. Apparently, it was two broken wires because it shorted out--I think. I was sitting in front of the laptop trying to move the wire to the spot where it would work (I had to do this as a temporary fix--it would connect the two pieces of broken wire inside the cable, which I could feel, allowing the laptop to charge.) Then, all the lights on the laptop lit at once, the computer froze and then just stopped working. That was the last time I was able to get the laptop to turn on. I've tried taking the battery and power cable out and holding the button down for a minute, I've left the laptop without power for a week, etc. --it's dead. Completely dead. :(

    So I've had enough, time to take it in on warranty, right? Yeah, the problem is that I've got a lot of personal and business related info on my hard drive so I can't just leave it on there and send it off. The hard drive has a regular SATA connector so I took it out of my laptop and stuck it in my regular PC. The problem here is that the hard drive has a password and my PC doesn't prompt me for it--it just ignores it and gives me a no OS error because it can't read the drive. :mad:

    Can I send this thing in without the hard drive? Or is there a way to access this passworded hard drive, back up, then wipe the drive with something like dban? Has anyone had these troubles before? Unfortunately, I thought fixing the power cable would solve everything and I decided to fix it myself. This involved cutting the cable right where it plugs into the laptop, soldering the wires together and covering the job with epoxy. I know I can't send back this hack job cable with the laptop. Will they service my laptop under warranty if I just "forget" to send the cable and hard drive? :rolleyes: I'm nervous about the cable since this seems like a power supply issue--they might want to check out my cable. :(

    Thanks.
     
    shadowpool, Sep 15, 2007
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