T61P won't post

I have a T61P that's been working and lasted my recent 3 weeks vacation. It was working before I boarded the plane in the airport, but after I got home it doesn't boot up any more.

When I turn it on, the battery/AC lights light up, but no fan, no screen activity, and no HD activity either. It just sits there with the batter/AC lights. I tried the resistor reset method (no battery, press power 10 times, hold power for 30 seconds). The reset method worked before but not this time.

Any ideas? Maybe memory other parts got shaken loose during the flight? Not sure what I should check. Thx.

 

Pretty unlikely "something shook loose". More likely to be a motherboard failure.

 

take the ram out and start the laptop without the ram, does it beep?

 

took out the ram and it makes short beep bursts. If I replace either of the 2 rams, it makes the same one long, 2 short beeps on startup.

 

there is a chance that your ram is culprit. Do you have a new set of ram to try the laptop out?

 

Or could you find a friend with cimpatable RAM and swap just for a while?

Renee

 

I don't have a new set, but I do have 2 sticks of ram in the laptop. If I put just either one of them the computer still beeps.

Guess I can always "borrow" one from Fry's to check it out. How likely is ram the problem or the mobo is fried? (I made sure to shut it down before the airplane ride...)

 

the 1-2-2-1 beep should mean that your GPU has failed (sorry i did not pick up on this earlier, it was quite obvious).

Call up Lenovo service and ask whether the free repair for the Nvidia GPU failure is still available.