Hello Philippe! I would turn the machine off, remove the hard drive, and try to boot from a bootable CD, such as a Linux LiveCD (Fedora is my favorite), or from a bootable USB hard disk or USB flash drive. If that works, your hard drive is in rough shape.
Best, Chris On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 19:10 +0100, Philippe D. wrote: > Hello, > > > > I have been a member for some times, but I have lost my userid and password. > Forgive my English, being French, I do my best to write in an understandable > way. > > I have a Lenovo T400 which was working very well, until a few days ago, when > I turned it on and froze on the "thinkpad" logo. I can hear the hard disk > rotating, I changed memory, but nothing does it. I tried the thinkvantage > key as wel as other keys, but it just remains on that screen. > > > > Does anyone have an idea on what could be the cause of the problem. > > > > Thank you very much for your help > > > > Philippe > > _______________________________________________ > 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
