Posted: 7/13/2002 12:53:00 PM EDT
| I have an older IBM LAPTOP (760 Thinkpad). It was running fine. One day i try to start it & windows will not load.It has Windows 98. It worked fine last time I used it & it was properly shut down. Next day It won;t start. The screen comes up that says Windows 98 With the blue background & all . I can start in safe mode & have run scan disk & tried the advice in the trouble shooting section of help. Does it need expert repair, or is there more I could try? I would like to get it running again because it has word, excel, & power point. Thanks in advance. |
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Well, It looks like you have something that went bad in your laptop, and Windows is trying to load the driver for it and hanging. Or, one of your drivers is corrupt, even though scandisk didn't find any errors. First, I would try reseating all the removable devices in you Thinkpad. Like the cd-rom (if it is removeable), any PCMCIA cards, etc. I had a thinkpad that did the same thing, it was the cd-rom. Just had to pop it out, and slam it back in. You are going to have to some ellimination processes. If I remember correctly, you can turn off/on drivers in safe mode boot. Do one at a time and see which one it hangs on. I don't have win98 machine handy to find the details. |
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Any error on the blue screen??? Most likely some dll or driver went fubar (did you install anything before last shutdown? did you remove any software?) If you ran a scandisk and everything came out ok you may end up just re-installing windows over itself... post the specific error so we can get you options. [=)] |
| I'm not this will help or not, but here goes - I had a IBM Thinkpad 755CD, and I'm currently using a 760ED. These are pretty trouble free machines except, the weakness in these things are the track pointer(the mouse replacement). If everything else don't work, you many need to send it in to IBM for professional repair. My old company(not IBM) has dropped support of these older machines though. |
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You may want to check and make sure that you have atleast 100mb of disk space left. You can free up disk space be deleting the contents of the c:\windows\temp folder and also the contents of c:\windows\temporary internet files you will also need to empty your recycle bin. Scandisk needs to be configured to automatically fix errors, in the advanced window of scandisk: check the box to delete cross linked files, check the box to free lost file fragments leave the others as is (default). The other thing is do you have up to date antivirus with the newest virus definitions? If none of that works may as well re-install the os and your apps. Good luck! |