Help request - T500 started with no BIOs battery or HDD. Now installed, but laptop won't boot fully.
The laptop now won't boot to windows...
Sequence of events - investigating issue inside laptop, (CMOS battery creating strong bad smell). The CMOS battery, HDD, and palm rest were all not installed.
The laptop was turned on in this state.
Some error or message screens came up.
As I tried to fix, I first realized and replaced the CMOS battery, then later the HDD, and later the palm rest.
At some point, with the CMOS battery in or out, and HDD either in or out, the laptop said it needed a correct system date. I went into BIOS and just selected 3/27/2015, and left the time with whatever it was showing.
This resulted in allowing the boot to progress to the screen stating that it could not start up, and asking to run in safe mode, safe mode with networking, last good configuration, or normally.
I tried safe mode, last known good, and normally. All of them resulted in the windows logo and loading bar (XP), and then it showed an error screen for a fraction of a second... and looped back to the boot sequence leading back to asking whether to try safe mode, safe with network, last known good, normal.
Then, later I installed the palmrest, in case that was related.
Still, the boot efforts all resulted in the same thing... an extremely briefly-displayed error page (too brief to read anything), and then instantly booting back to the safemode/last known, normal, etc option screen.
I canged the graphics to the integrated graphics, just to try... no change in result.
What is needed to allowing it to boot fully and normally?
Thank you very much for any help
9yr old T500, 2082-3HU, XP SP3 32bit, original 120GB Hitatchi Traveler HDD, dedicated Radeon, 2GB 2x1
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...means that Windows can't grok the boot device. Things to try:
1. When the PC is booting, press F8 to get a boot menu for Windows. Do you have a "last known good config" option? Try it.
2. Do you have a Windows retail disk, or a friend who has one? Boot on it and do a repair.
3. Open the BIOS. Can you find a setting for hard drive controller mode, IDE or AHCI? What does it say? Try switching to the other mode.
<<Any benefit of trying to reformat the HDD and reinstal an OS from scratch?>>
Yes, of course. It will fix the problem, as long as you're sure that the hardware is sound. But that's not guaranteed. Hot plugging a drive to a booting computer is not good practice--you have the potential for ground faults, corruption of the MBR, or whatever.
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