Hello, i have an IBM thinkpad t42, it worked well, till today. When i boot it up, it looks normal and i get to see the IBM thinkpad logo and stuff. After that, the screen is black and i get a flickering _ in the left-corner of my laptop, i waited half an hour and it doesn't go away.
The sympton is rather vague, but I suggest the following options, to be followed one by one, until one of them works for you.
1) Boot your system in Safe Mode (if Windows is your OS) by pressing F8 after the usual "beep" provided by the BIOS after it detects all is fine. If it boots up, which takes a little longer than usual, then your system is probably Ok, although it may have a configuration problem.
Reboot the machine from the shut down menu and hopefully it will work Ok. If not, then, depending on whether you have Windows Vista (or better), try:
2) Boot again pressing the F8 key, but this time locate the option that reads something like "Last known good configuration". Highlight it with the arrow keys and press Enter.
If you have System Restore set on your drive(s) your laptop should boot up normally.
3) The last option would be for you to go into your system BIOS and run at least a HD detection test, followed by a memory test, etc., but I would only recommend doing this if you know what you're doing. If not, ask a friend for help.
If your laptop doesn't beep to let you know that the BIOS has finished its checks, then I would suggest you start checking in your BIOS whether the F8, F9 keys etc, are enabled. At times this is not so, reason why they don't work.
Next, after ensuring they are ENABLED in the BIOS, then IMMEDIATELY after the IBM logo disappears from the screen, press F8 continually until you see the boot menu.
If this still does not work, then I would consult your user's manual in order to determine what is preventing this feature from working on your laptop.
Good luck!
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I've tried to press f8 several times, but i can't get at the menu to get into save mode. I can get into BIOS, but i don't know how to get into save mode from there.
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