my laptop will not [easily] turn on

[bonestonne]

Ok, i've looked plenty into it, and i don't want to say my mainboard is shot [unless it definitely is].

I have a Thinkpad T22, 900Mhz, 384MB of RAM, 20GB HDD, Linksys WPC11 wifi card, and finally the correct adapter.

well, lately, i've had this funny problem which just started actually yesterday, when i got the original adapter for it. yesterday, i backed up my CD inventory list, and i installed linux on it, because i felt that a free laptop should continue the free legacy.

well, after i installed linux, i was using it for a while, all fine and dandy, and then i updated the OS [all 169mb of updates] and i restarted..and things were fine, but my login screen the splash screen weren't what i wanted, so i changed them...but i didnt restart right away, i figured i'd install stuff i tend to use most, Audacity, K-3D, and XMMS. well, while i was on the internet, i was looking for ways to get Ndiswrapper to work, but it just shut off randomly [which it has been doing lately]. and when i pushed the power button nothing..so i kept pushing the power button until it finally started...and it would get past the loading screen, and then wouldn't display the login screen, splash screen or any GUI.

so then i wrestled it to using Knoppix...which was all fine and dandy. i was using the OS, i mounted the hard drive, and even browsed it without a problem. i went back to restart...didn't do it.

now, if i push the power button really fast for a long time, occasionally it will turn on for 10 seconds at the most...rarely showing me the boot screen [iBM logo], but it doesn't make it to BIOS.

i've googled the problem, people have had mixed results from the problem...am i without a laptop again? i really don't have the money for new parts or a new laptop..i still need to buy a second gig of RAM, a new HDD, and a new graphics card for this computer, which puts me in a hole.

if anyone has suggestions of any kind, lemme know, i need a laptop for school, and this is all i've got.

[puntoMX]

Remove the battery and try it again... that´s what I would do to start with...

[bonestonne]

i removed the battery, same thing. removed the CMOS battery, didn't help. i've also removed RAM, HDD, optical, reseated video cable, cleaned heatsink and fan....does absolutely nothing for me. i'm going to leave it unplugged for the night and i suppose all of tomorrow as well, and let the suggestions pile up. starting either friday night or saturday i'll wrestle with it again.

[bonestonne]

sorry to double post and all, but i need this bumped.

i just started googling some random phrases loosely relating to my problems, and "revive dead laptop" seemed to get me what i needed.

this is some stuff pulled from my google search:

I'm using an IBM ThinkPad R50 with Pentium-M processor. I have similar problems with it. Some times it won't come back from hibernation or suspend at all, sometimes it wakes up after a very long pause (over 5 minutes) and sometimes the machine just throws a blue screen of death instead of waking up.

many fixes include just a mobo replacement from IBM, however it doesn't appear to be just an IBM problem, or a Thinkpad issue, its widespread.

this is going to make me switch to Fedora 7 over Ubuntu, as people saying Red Hat based distros didn't have this problem, and it was possibly ACPI related.

can anyone back this up, expand on this, or kill my theory? or more importantly, does anyone have a laptop and know enough about the problem to have an idea?