Its a Thinkpad T22, PIII, Windows 98. I haven't been able to get it to start correctly for a long time now. It tells me "hard drive not installed".The boot order is set up correctly. It's making me crazy! When I want to power it off, I have to hold down the power butten which is also set to turn off the computer in the BIOS setting. After a while I will hear a beep and see that it has turned on. If I unplug it, the laptop stays on until the battery is almost drained and then goes into hibernation. I am wondering if the hard drive problem is in any way related to the powering up problem......should I just accept that the hard drive is dead?
2007-01-24 08:51:45 · 4 answers · asked by eigna728 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
If you're sure that the bios settings aren't messed up, it's time to retire that dinosaur. It sounds more like a bad motherboard or corrupted bios than a bad hard drive. If you need something off the drive, you can yank it out of there and put it on a 2.5" USB hard drive interface.
2007-01-24 11:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the laptop hooked up to a network or modem? Some computers have what's called "Wake on Lan" technology that will turn the computer on when it detects a phone call or network activity. If you unhook everything and it still turns on by itself then it would be a faulty power switch or a bad battery.
On top of all that, you probably do have a bad hard drive. Either that, or the bad battery is not properly powering your computer.
2007-02-01 07:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Mike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest going for a flash of your BIOS or checking out your MB for anyserious visible damadge.
2007-01-28 05:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this could be because of numerous reasons, but my guess is that one or more of the capacitors on your laptop's motherboard is leaking and therefore not working. :)
(buy a new laptop, or get it fixed)
2007-01-24 09:23:44 · answer #4 · answered by Muhammed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋