Thinkpad W500 4058 Freezes during post

I have a Thinkpad W500 type 4058 that freezes on the Thinkpad post screen during startup. It stays frozen indefinitely no matter what I do. I have tried pressing F1 F2 F9 F12 Delete and the Thinkvantage button on startup with no results. I have also tried starting it up plugged into the wall with no battery inserted and I even tried resetting it by removing the CMOS battery, the main battery and pressing the power button. I would just send it in for repairs but this problem started 3 days after my warranty ran out. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Ihad the same problem just crop up. I was driving cross country this last weekend with my son - Idaho to Virginia - and we were using my W500 with a Garmin GPS18 gps device and MS Streets & Trips for navigation. The 2nd day the machine wouldn't boot. We had been abusing the W500 a lot.
I just checked the USB ports after reading this thread and, sure enough, one of the 3 USB ports on the left side is DESTROYED! The pinds were crushed and touching. As soon as I seperated the pins it booted right up!
I agree - check your USB ports to make sure they are not compromised.
Steve

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Good day!
I have MSI P45 Platinum mainboard and from to time to time it freezes during POST with AMI bios POST code - 423C. This happens right after the message that "4096MB OK" and before the detection of SATA/IDE drives. When this happens, the only way to make the system run is to turn off the power (pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del of Reset would result in the same error) - after that the POST procedure finishes correctly and I don't experience any problems afterwards (system is rock-solid after POST completion).
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Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 16-December-08, 06:39:42
What is your current BIOS Version?
I've recently flashed the latest beta bios version - 1,5 beta 6... but it produces the same error as did the latest official bios v1.4
Quote from: Jack the Newbie
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What do the POST-Status LEDs of the board tell you, when the system freezes at the described stage?
Well, I guess I don't fully understand what does the combination of LEDs tell during the freeze. I'll try to describe the combination -
LED12 - OFF LED13 - GREEN
LED8 - RED LED7 - OFF
LED14 - OFF LED10 - GREEN
LED15 - RED LED11 - OFF
In mobo's manual this diagnostic LEDs are grouped in 4 groups and the description of the group that most closely resembles my case is - "Testing base and Extended memory etc." But I'm not sure that I'm identifying the problem correctly, because of the LEDs that are OFF.
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