My thinkpad t60 won't power on

Just this morning, i was just surfing the internet and listening to music then all of sudden my laptop blackout. Only the battery led has lights on. After that, i removed the battery then reconnect the ac adaptor. All that happen is that the hard drive light and battery light flashes once for a second then nothing happens at all. If the battery is connected, and i connect the adapter, only green battery light flashes constant but it still doesnt turn on.

Just to point out something, although slang terms don't have any official meaning, the term "bricked" is usually used to refer to a unit that has become about as useful as a "brick", but without an actual part failing. The most common way this happens is a failed bios update, where you end up with a computer that is mechnically and electrically sound, but cannot boot because the very basic software instructions used to tell the machine how to boot is damaged, and the only way to recover is to manually reburn the chip. A board that fails due to hardware failure isn't usually referred to as "bricked", but the end result is a unit as useful as a brick either way.
The advice given so far is very good, not much I can add really, so just confirm you have a known good power supply going into the unit, then remove everything you can, drives, cards, etc, as many times a failed part can prevent boot. You will need at least one good ram chip installed to boot, so if you have two installed, try one of them at a time in each slot. If you have only one ram chip (sodimm), then it would be best to substitute a known working sodimm to make sure that's not the cause. You may find a PC builder that has a ram testing machine where you could simply bring the chip in and ask if they would test it. Many will gladly test your ram for free.
If you cannot get the unit to post even with all drives/cards removed and known good ram and power supply, then you can safely assume you have a failed system board and proceed accordingly.
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T60 won't power up!

Hi,
I have a T60 laptop (2007WHH) that was working fine until a few days ago. After being in standby for 5 days, all the LEDs wen't out even with the AC adapter plugged and pressing the power button didn't work.
I then googled for a solution and found one that helped to recover from this:
-disconnecting the AC and battery
-pressing the power 11 times and holding it down 30 sec in the last one.
After plugging the AC, the LEDs were lit and the system booted fine. I left the system running until yesterday and put it in standby.
This morning, the LEDs were gone again, system won't power on and when I try the same technique as before I only get to power the laptop for 1 or 2 seconds before it dies again.
I also tried a similar suggestion from this forum (power button down for 10 sec x 10 times + 30 seconds down for the last time) but I'm getting the same result.
Could somedody please provide some assistance on how to recover this laptop please?
Thank you in advance.

Had the same problem - nothing when I plugged in the power cord. Followed your instructions down to taking out the ram and doing the 10x button press, and voila a live T60 again. For those of us not in the electronic know, this borders on magic.
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Thinkpad Yoga won't power up anymore

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I've had it 3 months. I was watching 24 on it last night. Since the battery is inaccessible, there was no way to turn it off. I called Microsoft Tech Support and they were useless I took it into the Aventura Mall Microsoft Store but they said they can't fix it they can only send it out which will take weeks.
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I tried unscrewing the bottom myself. I still couldn't get it off, but the fan noise at stopped. I tried hooking up to power and turning it on, but it still won't turn on.
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Thinkpad x61 won't power on

When I plug the power adapter onto the jack of the laptop, whether with or without the battery, the Ethernet port momentarily lights up for a second and then dies out. That's all. Is there a short circuit in the motherboard or is the motherboard dead?

Hi Radium,
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I’m sorry to hear that you are facing the issue with No Power on ThinkPad X61.
Perform Flee Power – remove the battery and any other peripheral device connected to the computer. Hold the power button for 10-15 seconds and then connect only the AC Adapter and turn ON the computer.
If above said did not helped in resolving your concern, I strongly recommend you to contact our technical support for assistance.
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Thinkpad x230 won't power on

After a trip abroad, my laptop suddenly stopped powering on. I brought it home, connected it to a charger, and then tried turning it on. The power light flashed on but nothing happened, so I held it down to hard boot it, let it rest for a minute, and tried turning it on again. Except now nothing at all happens. I've tried buying a new charger, removing the connection of the BIOS battery/laptop battery and holding down the power button for 30 seconds with the battery removed, but it's all to no avail. I notice that when I plug the laptop in, the battery light flashes green a few times. After letting the computer rest for some time, I noticed that when I hit the power button, the green battery light would come on and stay on. However, the fan does not spin up and it gives no obvious signs of life (no other lights, beeps, no screen flashes, etc). The area around the CPU does appear to get warm, however, when plugged in (the heatsink in particular felt hot). The warmth around the CPU area and the flashing battery light lead me to believe that the motherboard is still functional. I fully disassembled and reassembled the laptop with only bare parts but it didn't help. I also peeled off the black sticker shielding to see if there were any obvious signs of damage, such as blown capacitors, but found nothing out of the ordinary. What is wrong with my laptop? Do I just need to go ahead and replace the motherboard? Did I void the 3-year limited warranty with my reassembly and sticker-peeling (it's still good for another 3 months)?

Oh and lastly, when plugged into AC power, pressing the power button will cause the green battery light to flash around three times again. So it's clearly registering something. But why no spinning fan, no BIOS error codes, and no life in the LCD screen?

ThinkPad T60 wont boot

Hi,
Just the other day I went to take my computer out of sleep mode but upon doing so it crashed. When I tried to boot it back up I got this strange set of beeps and just a blank screen. Tried to reboot again and no luck. One thing that I have noticed is that after the beeps the "z: symbol with the circle around it stays on, but I really dont know what it means. Here is a youtube video of me trying to boot it up
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[SOLVED] Too average sound level [Thinkpad T60]

Hi,
Since a week I've changed my computer to an old one, a Thinkpad T60 (2006). And ArchLinux works mostly fine except for the sound level. In each programs, even in alsamixer, I put everything to the maximum level (Master, PCM, sound level of the program etc) and it's still too close of an average level. My speakers on other device are two times stronger than on the T60. Even if I plug headphone the sound is still too close of the average power of my speaker.
Since it doesn't seems to be a configuration problem and if the speakers works great as usual, it seems to be a problem related to the T60. I've tried the mini jack on the laptop and the one on the dock, still the same result. I've also a Razer keyboard which have a mini speaker input too, same problem.
This is my sound card: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
I don't know what to do to solve this problem, if I can.
Thanks for your help and tell me if you miss an information.
Cordially, Koshie
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Did you turn the hardware volume level up? (Using volume buttons, potentiometer, although lenovo does not mention that) I doubt that there are settings on volume level/gain in bios/uefi. As last resort, you can always add a softvol plugin to your alsa configuration.
Can you test volume levels with another operating system? Maybe even another live linux distribution like mint. Please post following:
aplay -lL; lspci -nn | grep -i audio; amixer -c 0;

Thinkpad T60 BIOS crash...

I have a Thinkpad T60 that has Vista 32 bit installed on it. It ran well for several months and then I did a BIOS update that froze and never finished. Now the machine is a brick. When I boot, all I get is the power and battery indicators. I believe the BIOS was wiped out. Is there a way I can restore the BIOS without having to replace the Mother Board...

If you can hook up a floppy disk and boot from that, you may be lucky, trying to do the BIOS update that way.
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Optical Drive won't power on

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I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520, and my optical drive won't power on. The problem is that it is by default set on "safe to remove", and when I want to use it, I have to remove it first and then put it back. BUT that won't work unless I reboot the machine after removal. I searched on this forum, but I did not find the solution for so far.
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I guess I will find out just how well this replacement process works.

T30 won't power up right away

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make sure your ventilation ducts are clean from dirt, Vista put lot more strain on every component of your laptop, so the temperature increase should be normal. Xp is lot less demanding on computer compoents, however it does sound like your heat ventilation fan and fins are clogged with dusts. So open up the laptop to clean away any dusts that maybe there.

Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with start up problems

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with start up problems. In order to get the computer to start up, I have to unplug it, remove the battery, re-insert the battery and turn it on, once it starts the start up sequence, I can plug in the power cord.
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Hello,
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Installed the update tonight and now my phone (Lumia 928) won't power up. I've tried a soft reset, but the screen goes from the Nokia logo to a red Verizon screen to a black screen. What's wrong and how do I fix it? Help!

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Oh no Mr.Ected!
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USB Problem, possibly bad Cable.
I misread your original post "It keeps rebooting at every 10 min or so when It was plugged into my laptop".
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My kid just got an iPod 5th gen (today from Santa) and it won't power up or charge. The only response is when I connect the USB and press the power button or front button the Battery appears with red line and lightning symbol. No other response at all.

Sorry about the long title.....its my first post.
My kid just got a brand new iPod 5th generation (today from Santa) and it won't power up or charge. The only response is when I connect the USB and press the power button or front button the Battery appears with red line on left and lightning symbol below. There is no other response at all no matter what I do, including holding both buttons down for extended period. My other kid got one and it works perfectly.....I have interchanged usb cables ports etc. but still no response....I would really appreciate any help.

Try:
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