Thinkvantage button

When I try to boot I get stuck with a blue screen. It won't boot up properly. How can I fix this?
I tried to press the blue button but nothing happened. When should I press it? What am I doing wrong?
I have Vista Business on x61s. Before I got the blue screen my screen was flickering and sometimes it would go all black. Please help?
Message Edited by b3l on 04-24-2009 01:37 PM

> I just made a clean install of Vista.
Unless you used the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery media set for your model of ThinkPad to do that clean install the TV button will not work. It requires that TV utilities are installed in Vista and that there is a recovery partition on your hard disk. There may be a way to enable the TV after a clean install of standard Vista but I am not aware of the procedure.
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