Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations bkrike on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

IBM Thinkpad A30 won't start up

Status
Not open for further replies.
gbl

gbl

MIS
Sep 6, 2001
262
CA
A user in our office runs an IBM Thinkpad A30 notebook with Windows 2000 Pro. Today he reported that he left the computer on battery and drained it down completely. Afterwards he could not power it up at all, even with AC. Plugging in the Ac with the battery displays the battery indicator but it does not power up. Taking out the battery gives the same result, without the battery indicator on, of course. I did not try using a different ac cord as I was concerned about a different ac cord damaging the unit. This is the first kind of problem like this that I have seen for this notebook. We only have the one A30 in our office so my experience with these is low.

Any suggestions as to what is happening?
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
take the battery out of the machine and boot it from the AC. i had similar problem, when I took the battery out and plug the ac, it boot.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

pmonett
  • Question
Katana 17 B12VFK-228XFR - big mistake (what is startup.nsh ?) 1
Replies
4
Views
582
pmonett
pmonett
Kjonnnn
  • Locked
  • Question
PC won't start after purchasing new memory. 1
Replies
2
Views
363
Kjonnnn
Kjonnnn
pmonett
  • Locked
  • Question
PC does not start after upgrade 1
Replies
18
Views
835
Andrzejek
Andrzejek
deltachief
  • Locked
  • Question
I have a system which starts just f 1
Replies
4
Views
479
xwb
xwb
lbrink
  • Locked
  • Question
Surface Pro 3 Tablet - won't power on.
Replies
6
Views
406
mariah1902
mariah1902

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top