Froze at "Press any key to restart" on Lenovo 3000 J117 7387 series desktop with XP
My system froze up the other day and I had to do a hard reset, and now the above is displayed at startup, and I haven't been able to figure out the cause or solution. Any ideas? Am I going to need to order a recovery CD from Lenovo and lose all my data? I did not create a recovery disk (dumb me). I have tried the F8 restor method and can't even get that to come up.....
Help!
Message Edited by G8rgrad98 on 02-24-2009 11:46 AM
I had the same problem that was driving me nuts.
Solution here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-67513
Lenovo should have this driver for download on their drivers page for the J115, but they instead erroneously state that Windows XP has a native driver.
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