Thinkpad 600X

My Thinkpad 600X stopped booting and gives 1 long beep and 1 short beep when turn on and immediately turns off.  It was working fine docked or undocked and now this problem.  I removed the memory and it still does it.  Any suggestion or help will be apprecited.

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Try having a look on page 57: http://linuxfocus.org/~guido/gentoo-tp600e/600e_hw_maintenance_manual.pdf
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