X40 Strange Boot problem

Hello;

I have a X40 laptop that I cannot use since the 25 of December.

My laptop was left on and connected to the outlet. I came back a few hours afterwards and wanted to use it. I thought it had gone into sleep mode so I pushed on the power button and nothing, after a couple of attempts I removed the battery and disconnected it from the main.

I tried again and then I got the IBM boot screen but right afterwards It cycled backed to off then on, then off etc... each time at the logo creen. I had to remove the battery to have it turn off as the switch was not doing anything. If I try to boot it with the outlet in, it doesn't even turn on.

Does anybody have an idea of what might be going on? I tried with another battery but the same prob. The HDD is still good as I can connect it to another PC and read the data.

Thanks

 

beat the crap out of it and threaten to buy a new one
sometimes that's the only thing windows understands
I would copy all data to an external drive, reinstall windows from a cd.
be sure to do a (not a quick) reformat first, within the reinstall procedure/
Get all you drivers copied over first as well

 

Thanks for the advice but it would work only If I could get past the initial IBM boot screen. It even restarts before I can reach the BIOS. I get the entering BIOS message and then it restarts. :-(

 

Sounds like your motherboard went/is going bad since it's not going past POST.

 

Sounds like a bad planar as klutchrider said.