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Hey all,

Quick thoughts. I’ve got a dead ThinkPad on my hands. I’ll plug it in, and the battery charging/charged light turns on, so it’s definately recieving power. But whenever I try actually turning it on, nothing happens. I’ve tried holding down the “on” button for 30 seconds, everything.

Any guess what might cause this kind of malfunction? If it’s a bad memory or a dead CPU, it would at least POST first, wouldn’t it? But this just won’t even power up at all.

Tks.

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I had the same sort of problem with my T20. It would intermitently fail to start, then finally gave up the ghost entirely. It turned out to be a bad keyboard connection - under the keyboard. They replaced entire keyboard, and it is fine now.

Elliott

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That helped! Took apart my keyboard and power button and put it back together again, and it powered up. Thanks!