Hello,

I don't know if it's okay to ask here for help with the repair of a
notebook. Therefore please don't hesitate to tell me the right ng.

The T21 notebook (2647-67G, 20 GB, 512 MB) will sometimes not boot up
after status bar reaches 80% on Win2K boot screen (latest SP). The
motherboard completely freezes, no mouse, no Think light, no Num Lock.
You have to switch it off by pressing the power button for several
seconds. Sometimes it will work when powered up a second time,
sometimes you have to try several times until it works.

Could it be that this is sort of the so called "Blink Of Death" (BOD)
syndrome? See

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=45325

Unfortunately nobody in this forum has found a reliable solution for
the problem till today.

Does any of you experts here know the answer for my 64,000 $ question?

CU

Reinhard

Well, from your post you are experiencing problems with your XP based IBM
Notebook. Correct? However why not post what actual diagnostics and
procedures you have actually done to determine just what may be causing the
symptom you are encountering. May be a problem related to the memory
modules, may be the cooling fan for the cpu has failed, may be many many
other things. Guessing here because of lack of information initially
provided. Cheers!
"Reinhard Zwirner" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I don't know if it's okay to ask here for help with the repair of a
notebook. Therefore please don't hesitate to tell me the right ng.

The T21 notebook (2647-67G, 20 GB, 512 MB) will sometimes not boot up
after status bar reaches 80% on Win2K boot screen (latest SP). The
motherboard completely freezes, no mouse, no Think light, no Num Lock.
You have to switch it off by pressing the power button for several
seconds. Sometimes it will work when powered up a second time,
sometimes you have to try several times until it works.

Could it be that this is sort of the so called "Blink Of Death" (BOD)
syndrome? See

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=45325

Unfortunately nobody in this forum has found a reliable solution for
the problem till today.

Does any of you experts here know the answer for my 64,000 $ question?

CU

Reinhard

Reinhard Zwirner wrote:

Hello,

I don't know if it's okay to ask here for help with the repair of a
notebook. Therefore please don't hesitate to tell me the right ng.

The T21 notebook (2647-67G, 20 GB, 512 MB) will sometimes not boot up
after status bar reaches 80% on Win2K boot screen (latest SP). The
motherboard completely freezes, no mouse, no Think light, no Num Lock.
You have to switch it off by pressing the power button for several
seconds. Sometimes it will work when powered up a second time,
sometimes you have to try several times until it works.

Could it be that this is sort of the so called "Blink Of Death" (BOD)
syndrome? See

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=45325

Unfortunately nobody in this forum has found a reliable solution for
the problem till today.

Does any of you experts here know the answer for my 64,000 $ question?

CU

Reinhard
Bad battery?
Some units must have a good battery, they won't run on just the power
supply alone.
from what your telling us here, it may appear that you successfully
get enough charge in the battery after several tries to get it started.
do you leave the cord alive into the laptop while not in use to
maintain the battery?


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Real Programmers Do things like this.
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AJ schrieb:

Well, from your post you are experiencing problems with your XP based IBM
Notebook. Correct? ...

Not really! It's a W2K system. And it's not only me who suffers from
this notebook syndrome: obviously there are a lot of IBM T2x users
who are confronted with the same problem as I found out by searching
for a solution in IBM notebook forums. Unfortunately there seems to be
no successful therapy until now.

... However why not post what actual diagnostics and
procedures you have actually done to determine just what may be causing the
symptom you are encountering. ...

If I was familiar with computer electronics I'd have done those
things. I must admit that I don't know at all where to start and how
to do those tests. If someone told me to measure voltage at point X
or clock frequency at point Y or change this resistor or that
capacitor/transistor I would do this without hesitation. Unfortunately,
a notebook is a little different from amplifiers, cd players etc.

... May be a problem related to the memory
modules, may be the cooling fan for the cpu has failed, may be many many
other things. Guessing here because of lack of information initially
provided. Cheers!

I'm sorry but I don't know which additional information I could have
given or which could be important. I did hope someone of you experts
would know this problem and could tell me 'Do this and that'. Maybe
it's too special a problem :-(.

Best regards

Reinhard

"Reinhard Zwirner" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I don't know if it's okay to ask here for help with the repair of a
notebook. Therefore please don't hesitate to tell me the right ng.

The T21 notebook (2647-67G, 20 GB, 512 MB) will sometimes not boot up
after status bar reaches 80% on Win2K boot screen (latest SP). The
motherboard completely freezes, no mouse, no Think light, no Num Lock.
You have to switch it off by pressing the power button for several
seconds. Sometimes it will work when powered up a second time,
sometimes you have to try several times until it works.

Could it be that this is sort of the so called "Blink Of Death" (BOD)
syndrome? See

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=45325

Unfortunately nobody in this forum has found a reliable solution for
the problem till today.

Does any of you experts here know the answer for my 64,000 $ question?

CU

Reinhard

On 12 syys, 21:24, Reinhard Zwirner wrote:
Hello,

I don't know if it's okay to ask here for help with the repair of a
notebook. Therefore please don't hesitate to tell me the right ng.

The T21 notebook (2647-67G, 20 GB, 512 MB) will sometimes not boot up
after status bar reaches 80% on Win2K boot screen (latest SP). The
motherboard completely freezes, no mouse, no Think light, no Num Lock.
You have to switch it off by pressing the power button for several
seconds. Sometimes it will work when powered up a second time,
sometimes you have to try several times until it works.

Could it be that this is sort of the so called "Blink Of Death" (BOD)
syndrome?


Hello Reinhard
I have also the same T21 as you. (I have also T30.) In T21 and with
W2K I had the very same problem as you. I do not what was the reason
for problem but I think that it was some kind of corruption of W2K or
some missing or corrupted T21 system files. However I fixed the
problem with running recovery with IBM T21 Recovery CD and running
also Software Selections CD for other needed T21 sw and I used also
IBM CD-ROM for device drivers. Those three CD's came with T21. This
recovery process formats whole hard drive. I also asked instructions
from IBM support. Above works; good luck.

Cheers,
Timo