T42p died after BIOs install

I installed it directly from the Lenovo website, it went through the four stages, told me that it would shut down after installing. it shut dfown, but not it will not boot up. The power buttin works, the fan comes on, the CDrom initializes, and that's it. My MiniPE disk will not boot from the CDrom, the display is blank and dark, the USB ports are unpowered. Bad juju here. Can anyone help me?
Thank you,
Jerry
Houston TX

try to take out the ram modules, and start the laptop without the ram, does it beep?
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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From windows (7 x64) I`ve tried to update the BIOS.
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Now after turning the notebook on it beeps twice and thats all.
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Tried to download the BIOS flash bootable CD, but unable to boot from that to repaire the BIOS.
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Just to give a positive feedback...
The service has replaced the motherboard in my T400 withing 24hrs. Nice service.
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