Thinkpads will do that if there is no hard drive installed. There may be a defect that is causing the drive to not be recognized for a while. If you can try a different hard drive, just to see if it starts to boot right up, it might give a clue
----- Original Message ----- From: STeve Andre' Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 7:25 pm Subject: [Thinkpad] The strangest problem I have ever seen with a ThinkPad To: [email protected] > Of course, this is my ThinkPad. Perhaps its fitting. Anyway, > earlier (a month+) I updated the BIOS on my W500 and bricked > it. Getting it back a few days later, it died again. What happened > both time was this: upon booting up the LEDs would briefly flicker > as normal, and then..... Nothing. No Bios screen, no disk activity. > > Getting my W500 back the second time, I thought the problem > was fixed. Last weekend it froze on me, and shutting the system > down resulted in..... Nothing. > > But this time, after calling EXSERV for a box, I booted up again, > and went through the Nothing period, it booted after a 10 minute > wait! I'd sort of forgotten that I had it on, so when I looked > at it > I was amazed to be at the password prompt. > > I've now booted up several times. The system has been flawless > once up. Rebooting the machine results in another waiting > period. > > The *weird* part is that it takes almost exactly 10 minutes. I'm > going to time this tonight. What on earth is happening here? > It's consistently booting, after a consistent period of time. > > Any ideas? Or am I reduced to waving a dead weasel over my W500 > while playing Lawrence Welk music backwards? > > --STeve Andre' > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
