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Anonymous Posted on Dec 29, 2012

Makes ticking sounds and wont work

I turn it on and I see IBM on the screen then it starts making a TICKING noise and THE SCREEN WENT BLACK .....then I cleaned the memory of your computer with a pencil eraser, the gold color part of the memory, then turn it back on and now I see windows xp and the scale showing it is trying but it keeps ticking and not going past this screen

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The ticking noise is either something touching the fan in the Fan Assembly; or the Harddrive has gone bad.

My thoughts?

Harddrive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGqaz4JdS5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgkqcNCrj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjYuzjA31mQ

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  • Anonymous Dec 29, 2012

    Thank u so much for ur help.... I have clesned the gold parts and then I turned it on and it says operating system not found... I have the 7 xp disc's but this does not have a cd or dvd

  • Anonymous Dec 29, 2012

    and the ticking/scratching noise has stopped....... at least it wasn't last time I worked on it.... I will check again today and...........

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jan 15, 2009

SOURCE: I have a IBM T41 NOT POWERINGUP

first clean the memory of your computer with a pencil eraser, the part that you will clean is the gold color part of the memory, wipe it out with a pencil eraser, if you have a separate video card. clean it also. and then turn back on your pc.

if the problem is the same, clean your motherboard hardwares by pulling out the hardwares that is connecte to the motherboard. and also the motherboard,

note: if you cant' do one of these things, just have your computer repair by a professional computer technician in your area

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Aug 17, 2009

SOURCE: Hi, I have a ibm t41 and when I switch it on, it

Try starting in safe mode, pess F8 continually at start up, then choose safe mode without networking. If you can enter safe mode, then go to start, run, and type msconfig, click on the startup tab, and disable all, then restart. This will turn off all of the startup programs and use less resources. If this works, I would then recommend downloading malwarebytes from malwarebytes.org and running it to clean the system of possible infections. Then, check how much RAM you have, you may need to upgrade. If you can't even boot into safemode, then you may need to reinstall the operating system.

Chris Sorrows

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  • Posted on Aug 08, 2009

SOURCE: after i was working in windows media player . i

First try hooking an external monitor up to it. If you cant get an image this way you might have to do a restore with the disks that hopefully you got with you notebook.

benwabnick

Ben Wabnick

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  • Posted on Aug 19, 2009

SOURCE: my laptop is locked and the right side of the

Make sure the NUM Lock key is lit and if it is and it still beeps then the keyboard is bad and will need to be replaced.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 14, 2009

SOURCE: Erro sound/pip when ibm 8310 netvista starts,

how many times it beeps is an indication of the problem
1 short beep
Normal POST - system is ok 2 short beeps POST Error - error code shown on screen No beep Power supply or system board problem Continuous beep Power supply, system board, or keyboard problem Repeating short beeps Power supply or system board problem 1 long, 1 short beep System board problem 1 long, 2 short beeps Display adapter problem (MDA, CGA) 1 long, 3 short beeps Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) 3 long beeps 3270 keyboard cardhope this helps.

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